ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS AND THE POETIC OF EXISTENCE

Authors

  • Franklin Leopoldo e Silva Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2175-3180.v8i15p30-46

Keywords:

existence, poetic representation, “Sensationism”, metaphysics

Abstract

The paper intends to point out some aspects of what we call here a poetic representation of existence in Álvaro de Campos’ poetry. His poetic expression refuses a pretended essence that would constitute things as seen by traditional perspectives. To exist means to be sensitive, in the cases of subject or object. Concept or conceptual thinking represents then a betrayal of sensitiveness. In this sense, words or signs are obstacles to access the things in themselves, in a pre-reflexive dimension. “Sensationism” as a literary theory commented by Fernando Pessoa, permits to understand the poetics of Campos, situated between a refusal of Metaphysics and an acceptance of a kind of metaphysics of failure.

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Author Biography

  • Franklin Leopoldo e Silva, Universidade de São Paulo
    Professor Doutor - Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

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Published

2016-08-16

How to Cite

Leopoldo e Silva, F. (2016). ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS AND THE POETIC OF EXISTENCE. Revista Desassossego, 8(15), 30-46. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2175-3180.v8i15p30-46