Silences of Gramiro de Matos

Abstract

This article analyzes distinct silences in the work of Gramiro de Matos. In this approach, silence is not considered a single concept, but rather a deduction that is reflected in five aspects of his work: silence as the problem of formal poetry, as violence, as exile, as ostracism and, finally, as death. To this end, the article reads his entire bibliographical work, more specifically: Urubu Rei (1972); Os morcegos estão comendo os mamãos maduros (1973); A Conspiração dos Búzios (2016); Influências da Literatura Brasileira nas Literaturas Africanas de Língua Portuguesa (1996); Antologia Poética (2002), but it also focuses on related intextextualities in Brazilian culture, such as Waly Salomão, Jorge Amado or Glauber Rocha. The work elaborates a synthesis based on what is not said in Gramiro, which is also a tribute to this recently deceased poet.