Valter Hugo Mãe: o filho de mil textos

Abstract

The thesis synthesizes the main lines of the cultural project elaborated by the Angolan Portuguese author Valter Hugo Lemos. He became a award-winning wrtier and his speech has become important in the media. This prominent position for a literature author nowadays asks for an analysis on the most important aspects of his artistic-cultural production. We dedicate part of the research to the observation of the author profile and the marks of his consecration in the literary field. The features of his narrators – both in novels and public performances – are assembled in order to outline a style that walks through all his discursive production. Therefore, we have researcheed the most diverse registers (like poems or children's short stories) in order to thematically approach his writing and his preoccupations. Since the concern for a humanizing citizenship is fundamental for the author, we have read some studies of psychoanalysis and philosophy to ground that its cultural project is based on the assumption of the importance of the founding lack of the "I" and of the necessary encounter with the "other". In this sense, the study of the family is important as the starting point of this encounter and of this lack in the literature of Valter Hugo Mãe - his most recent signature. Finally, the status of the marginalized characters, with emphasis on the homosexual character of his central novel in our point of view (The son of a thousand men), will serve to demonstrate the concept of humanization, the basis of the art and the project for the culture that is elaborated by the writer.