On poetry and painting in Herberto Helder

Abstract

Analysing the baroque elements in Herberto Helder’s works is trying to show how the formal and aesthetic aspects of the baroque style remain in the modernity and how they are processed in the herbetian poetic. This work aims to do a critical analysis of “baroque remainings” presented in Herberto Helder’s works, knowing this is a new way in reading his texts. We use the bridge between poetry and painting as methodology, as seen in the books Servidões (2013), A morte sem mestre (2014) and in the tales “Teoria das Cores” and “Escadas e Metafísica”, parts of the book Os passos em volta (2013).