CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY IN THE POETRY BY JOSE JORGE LETRIA: LOOKING FOR THE LOST WORD

Letria's reference to Antiquity is far from being an idealised raeding: it holds together the words web, the existence labyrinths, the theatre of life, inside the poet and outside on the open space under the sun, with its multiplicity of masks and its search for unity. Plunging in the sea of memory spaces allows the poet to bring back with him the echo of a lost unity, of an undiscovered word - as a matter of fact Antiquity was already a time-space of such unquietness and search, an 'incomplete paradigm' with which the poet identifies himself and identifies Europe asking for reconstruction.