Poetic (self)portraits in Herberto Helder's work

Abstract

Our intention is to analyze a series of poetic portraits sketched in the work of Portuguese poet Herberto Helder. Starting from the importance of the artistic genre often evoked in the work, we will try to show how the portrait goes beyond the clear references to the genre to configure one of the founding literary practices of the herbertian work. We propose to consider the work as a corpus constituted by a temporal assembly where the portrait appears as figurations of the authorial face.