Vergílio Ferreira : a palavra sempre e para sempre (conhecer poético e teoria da linguagem)

Abstract

Poetic creation, seen as a direct and living form of language creation can represent an important contribution to the Theory of Language. This article attempts a unifying interpretation of the novels and essays of Vergilio Ferreira from the points of view of word and language analysis. There exists a coincidence between Vergilio Ferreira and Benveniste in certain fundamental formulations on the subject of language: this proves that in their knowledge of language the literary creator and the linguist can meet, even though their knowledge might have been aquired through different channels. This meeting is of extreme importance not only for linguistics and literature, but also (and especially) for the field of their intersection, which is the Theory of Language.