O peso das mãos: morte, memória e afeto em Cal, livro de José Luís Peixoto

Abstract

In the book Cal, by the portuguese author José Luís Peixoto, death shows itsef under several perspectives. In first place, we want to recognize the singularities of these perspectives, as well as the identification motion among them. Considering that the aforementioned book not only unveils death possibilities, but, mainly, the intersections among life and death notions, we pursue to answer the following questions: Is it possible to know whether we are or not, in fact, alive?, Is death something definitive?, Are death and life exclusionary conditions? The thematic of memories and affections, inseparable from reflections about finitude, as well as from presence and absence notions, inevitably, passes throught all over the progression of this work. To think about those themes, as well as their transversal themes, we took as references literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis theoriticians concepts, as G. Deleuze, J. Derrida, M. Blanchot, F. Nietzsche, S. Freud, B. Spinoza, G. Bataille. The dialogue with and among thinkers who have different contexts contributes to give this work its fragmentary aspect, making appear and disappear, in labyrinthine progression, reflections of shifting limits