Book, Poetics In Action[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Without forcing the paradox, it is possible to say that this book by Roman Jakobson, which Editora Perspectiva makes available to our reading public, is a true structural history of Western poetry, and perhaps it can be read today in a more appropriate way than it would have been if it had been published when the author enjoyed, back in the 1970s, enormous international fame as one of the founders of modern structuralism.. And this is not forcing the paradox because the luminous ideas that run through the essays in Poetics in Action have ceased to be controversial pieces and have been incorporated into the common body of knowledge about poetry.. They gained that tranquility typical of classical configurations, without, precisely, ceasing to be necessary for the restless movement of the most insightful inquiries into the articulations between language and art.. They are classics, that is, after existing amidst the controversies that the presence of their author provoked, they began, or can begin, to be read as achievements of intelligence and sensitivity by public consensus.. The reader of this book soon discovers what is intended to be suggested by all this.: just read any of the essays, from the most 'technical' to the most broadly 'cultural' (and the quotation marks should be understood as difficulties in distinction), to know that one is not reading a simple professor or popularizer of linguistics, but rather an inventor of new relationships, a creator on a theoretical level, for whom the action of the poem, being that of language, allows the figure of a linguistic poetics to pass through.