Stone and Light in “A máquina do mundo repensada”, by Haroldo de Campos

Abstract

Haroldo de Campos was a poet for whom the rescue of inventiveness in the literary tradition was always of paramount importance. References to the canon are explicit in his work. Naturally, an author like Dante Alighieri was revisited by Campos several times. In this article, we intend to discuss Dante’s presence in the poem “A máquina do mundo repensada”, by Haroldo de Campos, especially in its initial stanzas, and from this starting point propose a reading and an analytical framework based not only in what the text evokes, but also in what it invites: the references that appear in “A máquina do mundo repensada” can be better understood if other references to Dante in Haroldo de Campos’s work are rescued.