Paulo Henriques Britto

Abstract

A poetry that speaks of nothing and everything at the same time; of denial and acceptance; that presents a late lucidity (SILVA, 2010). That is the work of Paulo Henriques Britto, analyzed here according to the theoretical basis of Areal’s (2011) and Brayner’s (2014) thoughts, both striving to establish a manifesto around the cliché, and make it defensible. As we shall see, poets like Britto greatly benefit from a broader and less prejudgmental understanding of the cliché. The approach that guides this article is that not only Paulo Henriques Britto intends to be a cliché in his Nenhum mistério (and in all of his work, why not?), but also in order to disturb that little lake of contemporary Brazilian poetry, like a simple stone, thrown by the hand of a child, which breaks the hard layer of the surface. It is, thus, of a naive consciousness (BRAYNER, 2014) that we are talking about.