SÉRGIO MONTEIRO ZAN AND THE VERTIGO OF LANGUAGE

Starting from the notion of the permanence of literary works in time, this article brings a survey on Sérgio Monteiro Zan’s poetry, presented in his book As horas sonâmbulas: sonetos extemporâneos, published in 2001. The intention here is to investigate some of its lines of force and some elements of its language. A declared heiress of the 19th century Symbolism, this poetry chooses its language in the space of some specific practices (of form, vocabulary, syntax, images), experiencing in this choice the possibility of a cleavage between the poetical language and the average language, full and master of itself at the same time, but emptied in its relations with the current language. Such element – called ‘vertiginous’ – leads us to a reflection on the ways of the poetry nowadays and its relations with past and tradition.