Haroldo de Campos, tradition and parallels with Borges' poetics

Abstract

The present article aims to perform a careful reading of the most important critical texts of writer, poet and essayist Haroldo de Campos, especially his essay Poetic Synchronic (1969). Through this analysis, we intend to find the keys of Haroldian thought that we consider to be meaningful for understanding an essential part of the development of the history of Brazilian literature. We contextualize Brazilian literature until the emergence of Haroldian thought, with a special emphasis on the concepts of reading and tradition. The article also examines some evident parallels with the poetics of Jorge Luis Borges, an important precursor of Campos. In order to fulfill our objective, we use as background bibliography some articles by the author in question that point out to the readers, in a very simple way, the fundamental concepts that articulate the machine of their thought.