Ética e Poética em Fernando Pessoa: por um ética do desejo e da perversão

Authors

  • Fernando Segolin

Keywords:

poetry, transgression, ethics

Abstract

Having as a starting point the concept of “poetry” formulated by Roland Barthes according to whom “poetic composition” – seen as “writing praxis” – can be defined as the “transgression of language transgressions”, this article is a reflection upon possible ethical aspects of Fernando Pessoa’s poetic practice. Taken from the viewpoint of its persistently and inexorably transgressive nature vis-à-vis other forms of discourse it would hold a dialogue with the well-known poetic and heteronymic unfolding of Pessoa’s poetics might be understood as the materialization of an ethical proposition centred on the multiplying and proliferating of language forms which, by means of practising and experimenting with various idiolects, would aim at blazing trails towards the engendering of a “desirous poetry” involved in inscribing upon the “pervers(e)ty” of discourse erraticalness the voluble and uncertain contour lines of multiple desires.