The Revision Process in “Hora Absurda”
Due to the crisis of conscience which affected the transition between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries in Western Europe, artistic expression in modernist literature often moved away from the idea of a unitary existence to represent the heterogeneity of the human nature. In the Portuguese...
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| Izvleček: | Due to the crisis of conscience which affected the transition between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries in Western Europe, artistic expression in modernist literature often moved away from the idea of a unitary existence to represent the heterogeneity of the human nature. In the Portuguese literary context, one of the most emblematic concretizations of self-fragmentation was, doubtlessly, Fernando Pessoa’s heteronomy. By creating multiple fictitious personalities, each with its own artistic individuality, Pessoa sought to convey the multiplicity of human experience, following some earlier orthonymous work (i.e., signed under his own name), oriented to the artistic expressions of his heterogeneity. Such is the case of “HORA ABSURDA”, a poem published in the journal Exílio in 1916, whose genesis will be the object of reflection in the present paper. The relevance of the poem’s genetic process resides in the numerous textual variants noticeable in the manuscript, which show an intense writing and revision work carried out to the end of aptly articulating the annihilation of self-unity. The genetic analysis will be focused on the observation of those variants which modify the expression of the subject, in order to cast light on the process through which the self’s fragmentation is expressed. |
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