“Assinatura cotidiana da minha escritura com a morte”: the relationship of Bandeira and Pessoa with the night

Abstract

Two great names of the modernist movement in their respective countries, Manuel Bandeira (1886-1968) and Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), being contemporary, have both a peculiar way representing death in literature. Bandeira has it as a leitmotiv of his work, while Pessoa subtly inserts in his poetry, either through his orthonymous or heteronyms, sometimes with irony, and sometimes naturally. In this sense, this present work begins by studying the “escritura com a morte”, with the analyzis of some poems by writers who refer to this theme, especially those who use the night as a synonym / metaphor, relying on the dialogue with Berenice Berardinelli, Donaldo Schüler, Antônio Cândido, Gaston Bachelard and Octavio Paz, seeking encounters between these nocturnal poetics of death.