LUÍS DE CAMÕES IN THE CROSSROADS OF A PORTUGUESE ANTHROPOPHAGY

Abstract

It is known that the notion of anthropophagy, on culture, much exceeds Brazilian modernist question and the literary context in which produced Oswald de Andrade. The anthropophagic lesson achieves a trans-historical dimension that greatly helps us to understand the concept of contemporaneity, as Giorgio Agamben thinks. Thus, this paper seeks to point out the contemporary work of Camões by the anthropophagic swallowing of the monument made of him – engendered by Portuguese poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Jorge de Sena and Manuel de Freitas –, which entails a reading of Camões as a poet.