The other in Paulo Leminski

Abstract

Poetic cutouts of Paulo Leminski’s The Ex-Stranger, serve as a point of analysis of the otherness, which is constituted by the displacement of the being into the interior. By abandoning his conditions of common sense, mankind finds in poetry the possibility of identifying meanings that are often unspeakable at the level of language. The otherness lasts the moment sufficient to capture these senses and cause the surprise that results in the stupefaction of the obvious, of the obvious. This is a theoretical bibliographical study that corresponds to the analytical approach centered on the otherness. The final considerations reveal the transit of the lyrical self in the path of displacement for otherness and its return to everyday conditions. The term otherness is used by Octavio Paz in the work The bow and the lyre to designate the “other” in the human being, that is, himself; this “other” that causes self-strangeness and questions one’s identity, first by revulsion, then by fascination and, lastly, by vertigo. The “other” who is also “I”, is the double trying to capture but that escapes, giving sense to the solitude.