The collection of poems by the Brazilian writer, rewritten in French, in a process that includes translation and re-creation, combines with delicacy, ingenuity and great coherence a research on the relationship between language and Eros, personal reflections, extensive cultural references and philosophical questionings.
Patrícia Lavelle is a poet, translator and professor of Literary Theory at the Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro. She holds a doctorate in philosophy from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris (EHESS). She has published poems, translations and essays in France and Brazil, and has edited several books, notably on
Walter Benjamin.
