António Nobre: between the Essential loneliness and the Populated loneliness

Abstract

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.35572/rlr.v9i3.1718

The loneliness sets before the human being as a paradox. While originating and constitutive (Heiddeger) and, wherefore inescapable - for the human being- in his sociability, the loneliness can be configured as fearsome and that causes disease. Between these extremes there is a dual vision conceived in the concepts of Loneliness and Solitude (Tillich), negative and positive part of loneliness, respectively. In this article, we reflect the matter of loneliness from the framework of literature. In particular, the work Só by António Nobre, published at the end of the 19th century. Supported by Bakthin, Blanchot, Volochínov and Rilke, a dialogical read of the nobrean work demonstrates that its poetics presents a loneliness, beyond of the apparent monostatic isolationism, founded in alterity, in "relationship with". This (creative) subjectivity, constituted in the dialogue with the other, establishes a loneliness populated by sayings, subjects and other meanings. Which opposes or reframes the vision of an essential loneliness in literary creation.