Pedro Meneses
I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Portuguese Studies (2009), my master’s degree in Cultural and Literary Mediation - Specialization on Cinema and Literature (2013) and my PhD in Sciences of Literature - Specialization on Comparative Literature (2018), all from Universidade do Minho (Portugal).
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Palavras-chave: utopia; quotidiano; resistência; ética
O Bairro (‘The Neighbourhood’) of Gonçalo M. Tavares is an unusual literary project. It consists of the invention of characters – the gentlemen – created by reading the work of authors of the literary tradition. In O Bairro, the gentlemen have a life of thought without the drawbacks of reality. They live their interior time in its fullness. It is a world apart from ours, where you live a different daily life, resisting to other forms of life. Every gentleman is observed from his manias and his habits. O Bairro is almost an invention of happiness, a literary series that believes naivety can be useful as an antidote for the darkness that lucid- ity sometimes entails. A cheerful and humorous utopia that contributes with enthusiasm to change life itself, in contrast to the cold utopia of the 21st century, focused on trans- forming only the landscape around humans.
Keywords: utopia; daily life; resistance; ethics
In this article, we offer a reading of a short story by Clarice Lispector, "Menino a bico de pena". This reading will cross other short stories and novels by the author, to elucidate some recurring themes in this textual territory. This article shows how, in the mentioned short story, from the observation of a baby, Clarice Lispector defines an ethical position in which joy, creation and time are significant concepts. Furthermore, in her texts the ideas of joy or happiness are not related to the dominant set of human values, which incites a post-humanist reading.
Palavras-chave: utopia; quotidiano; resistência; ética
O Bairro (‘The Neighbourhood’) of Gonçalo M. Tavares is an unusual literary project. It consists of the invention of characters – the gentlemen – created by reading the work of authors of the literary tradition. In O Bairro, the gentlemen have a life of thought without the drawbacks of reality. They live their interior time in its fullness. It is a world apart from ours, where you live a different daily life, resisting to other forms of life. Every gentleman is observed from his manias and his habits. O Bairro is almost an invention of happiness, a literary series that believes naivety can be useful as an antidote for the darkness that lucid- ity sometimes entails. A cheerful and humorous utopia that contributes with enthusiasm to change life itself, in contrast to the cold utopia of the 21st century, focused on trans- forming only the landscape around humans.
Keywords: utopia; daily life; resistance; ethics
In this article, we offer a reading of a short story by Clarice Lispector, "Menino a bico de pena". This reading will cross other short stories and novels by the author, to elucidate some recurring themes in this textual territory. This article shows how, in the mentioned short story, from the observation of a baby, Clarice Lispector defines an ethical position in which joy, creation and time are significant concepts. Furthermore, in her texts the ideas of joy or happiness are not related to the dominant set of human values, which incites a post-humanist reading.
Abstract: The article aims to demonstrate that, in Adília Lopes poems, evil has a psychological and interpersonal impact in episodes in which it is established an autobiographical pact. Evil manifests itself as vanity, social hypocrisy or will to power, also denounced in the art-world. In Adília's poetry, the person has always superimposed itself upon the grandeur presupposed in the notion of author. Her poetic work deconstructs linguistic commonplaces in order to show the arrogance of ideology. It embodies an increasingly consistent ethic and desire (according to the final Roland Barthes) that try to overcome disenchantment: there is a possibility of to be a "mulher-a-dias", who lives every day dedicated to texts, to readings and to the demanding task of kindness. Perhaps Adília Lopes is the most accurate caption for her childhood and youth photographs, the war name with which the civil author lives her vocation.