Writing with Adilia/Barthes about what we like

Abstract

Reading of Adília Lopes’ poetry from Barthes’s biographematic perspective. Reflection on how the poems in Adília’s latest book-albums, especially from Manhã (2015) until the most recent Pardais (2022) and Choupos (2023), are permeated by memory remnants of readings and experiences of the poet-reader-character who writes motivated by the pleasure/love of remembering others through themselves. Intertextual relationship between the pleasure [jouissance] of Barthes’ theoretical-fictional writing [écriture]. This relation is expressed in the recurrent use of the verb “like” as a trace of the encounter of corporeal remains with the reader. There are the descriptive-poetic-sensory constructions of the persona Adília. In addition to the insertion of other characters, the poet reinscribes them into the prose poems through image games, of words and fragments of biographical-poetic-fictional memory.