José Gomes Ferreira: the pleasure of talking about myself or the "ideal invention paradigm" through words

Abstract

We read José Gomes Ferreira’s The word’s memory or the pleasure of talking about me, particularly the chapter “The memory of words”, contemplating two main concepts: invention and word. The basis of the autoral poetics relies on the formulation of the concept of invention “understood as a process of creation” that embraces “memory”, processes already existing “in the subconscious” and the “originality (ingenium)” of the “artist” (Lausberg, 2004:91), to which “audacity” is linked (Ferreira, 1965:17). From the relationship between the rhetorical foundation and the written word arises a peculiar way in which the author speaks about himself incurring in a “search for his own identity” (Morão, 2011:367) and a progressive self-knowledge that brings him together into a kind of “I-author-poet”.