LEITURAS DE NAVEGAÇÕES (1983)

POÉTICAS DO MAR EM SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER ANDRESEN

Abstract

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen has established herself as a unique poetic voice in the 20th century, without, however, failing to highlight her relationship with her predecessors. In Navegações (1983), the author evokes the grandiosity of the sea, based on the experience of the voyage of discovery, marked by the astonishment of the gaze that reveals the world. In exploring this theme, Sophia establishes a frank dialog with the Portuguese literary tradition, evoking, for example, names such as Luís de Camões, Fernando Pessoa and Jorge de Sena. In the midst of this multiplicity of voices, the author revisits Portugal's epic and maritime tradition in her own way. In this sense, this work is dedicated to analyzing how the relationship between the Andresenean lyrical subject and the sea is configured in the aforementioned publication, observing the way in which literary echoes and voices permeate and/or interact with her own writing.