Last will(s): withdrawal and resistance in the poetry of José Miguel Silva

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2020

Authors

Eiras, Pedro (Author) FLUP

Journal

Title: Portuguese Studies

Vol. 36 No. 2

Pages: 206-219

ISSN: 0267-5315

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Humanities > Literature

Other information

DOI: 10.5699/portstudies.36.2.0206

Abstract (EN): The first pages of Erros Individuais [Individual Errors] (2010) pose the question of whether it is worth writing poetry; the answer is rather ambiguous. In Serém, 24 de Março (2011), the poetic persona decides to retreat to a house in the country, far away from the values of the cities. Very recently (2017), José Miguel Silva published a book called Últimos Poemas [Last Poems], probably a goodbye to poetry. At the same time, the author has been publishing online texts in which he denounces the dangers of climate change, far-right politics, and the end of democracy. Should we identify a coherent gesture of withdrawal in José Miguel Silva's work? Or is there a sort of ironic resistance in this farewell to poetry and to the world of the polis?

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific