"Os passos em volta" de Herberto Helder

: ou como resgatar a existência pela cartografia do devir

Abstract

Life’s celebration for Herberto Helder is only possible through poetry. In the Herbertian universe it holds an extreme power, grounded by the inexhaustible energy of two tensions: the innocence and the demonic spirit. This is what gives us the reading of the twenty-three prose texts presented in Os passos em volta: the uninterrupted presence of different narrators, in continuous alternation, especially the narrator-poet, an indistinct being of the poem, in its absolute immanence. In fact, no one goes unpunished after a meticulous reading of Os passos em volta. It is therefore appropriate to recognize not only the dynamic reality inherent in physical and human geography through which the narrator-poet wandered, but to share the mythic existence of his inner tensions and his uninterrupted escapes, in a permanent, endless restart, of writing itself.

Date of Award	2020
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	João Amadeu Oliveira Carvalho da Silva (Supervisor)