Memória e saudade em Perfume de Resedá, de Paulo José Cunha

Abstract

This work investigates how nostalgia, a modality of memory, can be represented in the poetic text and what resources the poet uses for the fictionalization of experience and its transposition to the materiality of the poem. The work Perfume de Resedá is analyzed, in which Paulo José Cunha builds a history of the city of Teresina through the recollection of his childhood stories. The research is based on theorists who deal with poetic creation, such as Alfredo Bosi (2000), Gaston Bachelard (1985), Antonio Candido (2008), Octávio Paz (2012) and Paulo Henriques Britto (2000), to understand how the Fixation of images by memory and the materialization of images in the poem, through language. It was tried to articulate a discussion on how the poet, empirical subject, through its formal choices, lends to its subjectivity a universal character. In relation to nostalgia, the texts written by Eduardo Lourenço (1999), Alfredo Antunes (1983), Roberto DaMatta (1993) and Suzana Kampff Lages (2002) deal with the choices made by Paulo José Cunha to represent his reminiscences and his Constant tension between the temporal dimensions.