ABSTRACT
The purpose of this article is to think of Paulo Leminski’s biographical-poetic experiments as historical narratives and the agency of and about the past that they articulate. The main argument is that the concept of time that emerges in his writings escapes from those that predominate in the so-called historical culture, dialoguing with the temporalities of poetry and myth. More specifically, it is about how the poet-biographer articulate the relationship with the past crossed by what he called “passion”, which implies taking into account not only the presence of the past within the present, but also its modes of participation in the temporal dynamics, that is, in the movements of updating and outdating.
Keywords:
passion; history; biography; Paulo Leminski