Enigma e transparência : sobre o Uso de penumbra de Fernando Echevarría

Abstract

In this study, which was presented as part of a doctoral examination in Portuguese literature at the University of Oporto in 1997, the author attempts to reflect on Fernando Echevarria's poetic art, trying to define some of his main ideas and to articulate them with his latest work, published in 1995. With this book Fernando Echevam'a completed forty years of an extremely discreet and productive literary existence. The demanding and exacting nature which characterizes this poetry - and which is to be found within a traditional form - is indissociable from an ontological meaning of literary creation, which lends it an unusual profundity.