AN UNLOVE PREPARATION: AFFECTIVE-CONFLITUAL RELATIONSHIPS IN AL BERTO AND CAIO FERNANDO DE ABREU
Al Berto. Caio Fernando Abreu. Melancholy. Affective relationships.
This essay thesis brings together the works by the Portuguese writer Al Berto and the Brazilian Caio
Fernando Abreu. The capital problem is based on the critical reflection on how one establishes
affective-conflicting relationships that cross the two poets’ love lyric in a distinct, but comparable
way. The contact point between the writers pervades the question of the control processes of
affections and their relation with culture, politics, the construction of subjectivities and language.
The interpretative effort undertaken here is dedicated to the analysis of poems compiled in O medo,
by Al Berto, and Poesias nunca publicadas de Caio Fernando Abreu, by Caio Fernando Abreu,
through the problematization of the romantic love myth and of melancholy.