Nietzsche and Pascoaes, poets of silence

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the presence of Nietzsche in the poetic work of Teixeira de Pascoaes, taking silence as an articulating theme. From an approximate approach between the "characters" Zarathustra (Nietzsche) and the Fool (Pascoaes), we will argue that silence manifests itself as an event, requiring above all a "learning". We hope, with this study, (i) to demonstrate the importance of Nietzsche for Pascoaes' poetry, allowing us to understand both authors as excellent poets of silence, but also (ii) to understand Teixeira de Pascoaes as one of the names responsible for the circulation of Nietzsche's thought in Portuguese poetry and culture of the twentieth century.