The ashes of Trotsky. Paulo Leminski, the real and the political imagination

Authors

  • Jorge H. Wolff Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC, Brasil).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14409/culturas.v0i13.8606

Keywords:

poetry, real, Paulo Leminski, Trostky, Pasolini

Abstract

This text examines the poemby Paulo Leminski (1944-1989) dedicatedto Natalia and Leon Trotsky. This poem hasgreat importance in hiswork. The text, written in firstperson, presents the Brazilian poetan dhiscontexto femergence and performance between the 60’s and the 80’s andfinisheswith a recent speech by Alain Badiou, «A la recherché duré el perdu» (2015) whosemain object is thepoem «The ashesof Gramsci» by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Its political melancholyis similar tothatof the poemby the Brazilian writer, whohasbeen one of the mos timportan tintelectuals in the country by the endof theXX th century. In additiontosituating him in this scene and toconsider poetry in the present time, the textintendstodiscuss whose «The ashesof Trotsky» are in Leminski’svision.

Author Biography

Jorge H. Wolff, Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC, Brasil).

Doutor em Literatura pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC–Brasil). Professor e pesquisador em literatura brasileira e latino–americana e teoria literária na UFSC, Florianópolis, Brasil. Doutor em Literatura pela UFSC. Autor de Julio Cortázar. A viagem como metáfora produtiva (Florianópolis, Letras Contemporâneas, 1998) e Telquelismos latinoamericanos. La teoría crítica francesa en el entre–lugar de los trópicos (Buenos Aires, Grumo, 2009 – versão brasileira: Rio de Janeiro, Papeis Selvagens, 2017). É co–ditor
das revistas outra travessia e Landa (UFSC) e tradutor de literatura hispano–americana.

Educando al soberano (la resistencia) por Ana María Fabry Técnica mixta pintura 2002 Dimensiones: 100 x 100 cm Sede: Casa Central

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Published

2019-11-06

How to Cite

Wolff, J. H. (2019). The ashes of Trotsky. Paulo Leminski, the real and the political imagination. Culturas, (13), 69–82. https://doi.org/10.14409/culturas.v0i13.8606

Issue

No. 13 (2019): Culturas

Section

Articles / Axis 1.