About the state of equilibrium between the truths that are said and the words that say them: the aesthetics of neo-realism and the search for ways of poetical doing in the works of Carlos de Oliveira

Abstract

The article is based on the ideas of Marice Blanchot and Ezra Pound about the poetry as a condensed narrative form. The notion of an aesthetic per­ception, related to the visual and sensitive, in parallel to the perception of the text as language in the sense of communicating is presented. From this double mechanism of appreciation, imagistic-sensitive and teleologi­cal, we intend to discuss the way that the book Cantata, from Carlos de Oliveira, marks an investment in the form as an specific work of the artist that presents itself in a controversial plan to the idea of primacy of content over form, periodically affirmed as the basis of the orthodox theorization for Portuguese neo-realism. Thus, the present article understands the neo-realism not only as a strictly literary, artistic or generational movement, but as a systematic questioning on the domains of art, politics and culture.