A lucidez tardia: a poesia de Paulo Henriques Britto

Abstract

The article examines Paulo Henriques Brittos poetic work, particularly the book Macau (2003), in order to place it in the contemporary poetic scenario. From the aesthetic categories of Adorno and the young Lukács, the concepts o f modern, irony and autonom y of the work of art and of the diagnosis of the crisis of poetry seek understand how the poet dialogues with the tradition in a particular way that combines traditional elements, as the sonnet, with colloquial informality. This diction, which departs from the paradoxes of modernity, ends in tensioning contemporary to seek, among other things, shorten the distance between the author and aesthetic of the reader