Abstract
In this essay, I reflect on the tasks of poetic criticism in its importance for the readability of catastrophes. From a reading of “Poema para a catástrofe do nosso tempo” by Alberto Pucheu (2020a)PUCHEU, Albert (2020a). Poema para a catástrofe do nosso tempo. Revista Cult, São Paulo. Disponível em: https://revistacult.uol.com.br/home/poema-para-catastrofe-do-nosso-tempo/. Acesso em: 27 mar. 2024.
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and the theories of memory and imagination by Georges Didi-Huberman (2018aDIDI-HUBERMAN, Georges (2018a). A imagem queima. Tradução de Helano Ribeiro. Curitiba: Medusa.; 2018b)DIDI-HUBERMAN, Georges (2018b). Remontagens do tempo sofrido: o olho da história II. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG., I circumscribe a task of restitution, which operates in the face of denialism and erasure of historical violence. Considering Walter Benjamin’s theory of knowledge (Benjamin, 2012BENJAMIN, Walter (2012). Magia e técnica, arte e política. São Paulo: Brasiliense. Obras Escolhidas, v. 1.; 2020bBENJAMIN, Walter (2020b). Sobre o conceito de História. Tradução de Adalberto Müller e Márcio Seligmann-Silva. São Paulo: Alameda.) and its developments in Didi-Huberman’s work, I view the poem as a critical montage of our time, where the poet juxtaposes different paradigms of readability related to the processes of extermination that have occurred in Brazil and culminate in the Covid-19 pandemic.
Keywords:
contemporary Brazilian poetry; image; memory; catastrophe
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