Brief notes on ethics based on Adília Lopes

Abstract

The article aims to demonstrate that, in Adília Lopes poems, evil has a psychological and interpersonal impact in episodes in which it is established an autobiographical pact. Evil manifests itself as vanity, social hypocrisy or will to power, also denounced in the art-world. In Adília’s poetry, the person has always superimposed itself upon the grandeur presupposed in the notion of author. Her poetic work deconstructs linguistic commonplaces in order to show the arrogance of ideology. It embodies an increasingly consistent ethic and desire (according to the final Roland Barthes) that try to overcome disenchantment: there is a possibility of to be a “mulher-a-dias”, who lives every day dedicated to texts, to readings and to the demanding task of kindness. Perhaps Adília Lopes is the most accurate caption for her childhood and youth photographs, the war name with which the civil author lives her vocation.