“talvez o mundo pare de acabar tão depressa” [Maybe the world will stop ending so fast]: about a poem by Filpa Leal

Abstract

The reflection for the writing of this article begins in the manifesto written by the Portuguese poetess Filipa Leal. From the defense of the readers of poetry, the poetess seems, ironically, to challenge the position of the readers of the novels. Nevertheless, we can observe that some critics note the presence of a narrativity in the contemporary poets. This feature seems to confirm that the absence of a more present genre, which is not a novelty of contemporary poetry, is confirmed as a possibility to talk about a time that produces its specificities. An example is present in the poem that gives title to the book, “come on Thursday”, which is a reference to a poem by Mário de Sá-Carneiro. In other books by Filipa Leal, we can note the presence of a reflection on the liquidity of contemporaneity, a possible reading key for the confirmation of Benjamin’s thesis that narration would be a genuine maintenance of experience. Therefore, there is a principle of narration that seems to be relevant to experience.