Helder and Llansol: the spacialization of language

Abstract

Herberto Helder and Maria Gabriela Llansol poetics are, today, in the Portuguese Literature, those which most radically embody a world and, by extention, a literature conception crossed by the surrealist tradition and by a certain mystical orientation which redefines the subject experience with language. Their poetics lay down on (1) a deep connection between the reading and the writing processes, (2) an utopic vision of the text as a meeting place for difference and of affect reverberation, and (3) a comprehension of meaning as metamorphosis. The present paper intends to catch this language performance along the text flow, as well as the spacialization of the relationship between the subject and the view.