Carlos de Oliveira e a responsabilidade do Falhanço

Abstract

Carlos de Oliveira is a Portuguese author who writes a kind of corrosive and historic defeat that he called falhanço. In his books this concept can be compared to some movies of the lato sensu neo-realistic director Luchino Visconti. In Carlos de Oliveira books, the falhanço can appear in the structural relationship between his own texts and the censorship during Portugal dictatorship, as we can see in the collapse of world showed in his two last books, Pastoral and Finisterra, published after the redemocratization in 1974. This text discusses others implications of the falhanço’s concept in his poems and fictionm as well.