SENSES AND NONSENSES OF EXILE INTRODUCTION AND TRANSLATION OF THE EXILE 1-4 POEM CYCLE BY MAHMOUD DARWISH

Abstract

accompanied by a critical introduction, this paper translates the cycle of poems Exile 1-4 from the book Almond Blossoms and Beyond published in 2005 by Mahmoud Darwish. The aim is to broaden the Brazilian reception of such an important poet of the Palestinian catastrophe, emphasizing the surprising evasion of meaning and the unique mode of belonging to Testimony of his poetic prose. Without being Testimonial Literature (in this case, of the Nakba), oscillating between the resistance to the Israeli occupation and Arab modernist verse, the flows of testimony confuse not only the poetic and prosaic, but also tone and form, sound and meaning, realism and symbolism, with ethical and aesthetic consequences, an out-of-place existence of the subject in life and in words. Readers are invited to consider new views of translation as an operator that disarms the self-sufficiency of speech, following the paths of deconstructions, semiologies of nonsense, and negativities.