The itinerary in Haroldo de Campos’ Galáxias

Abstract

This article suggests a comparative analysis of the book Galáxias by Haroldo de Campos (Brazil,1984) and The itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela, a travel book wrote between 1160 and 1173. Our first objective is present the hypothesis that the poet realizes a rereading of this medieval travel writing, detaching resemblances, differences and some possible unfolding. For this, the investigation is concentrated in tree fundamentals aspects: the Galáxias structure; the constitutive elements on the reality representation and its equivalents in the evocated past; the present look over the past and the poetic procedures on the updated historic document.