La Finestra come genesi della poesia: la dialettica del fuori e del dentro in Tabacaria. Nuovi percorsi estetici nella poesia pessoana

The window can include a lot of different symbolic values and can be considered at the same time a border and a protection area: this architectural element allows the pessoan heteronomy Álvaro de Campos to observe other people�s life, taking place in the road. His gaze, attentive and absorbed at the same time, leads to the birth of the poem Tabacaria (1928). It is a poem that from the beginning portrays the collapse of illusion: the poet is a man who chooses not to live his own life, preferring to take refuge behind a window, a profound disillusionment narrated through the dialectics of �outside and inside�. In Tabacaria the window allows two opposing worlds � otherwise incompatible � to come together, although they remain separate, a contrast defined by the Pessoa-Campos as alienating, reminiscent of the perceptual dialectic theorized by the philosopher Merleau-Ponty. A window, an architectural barrier that allows you to see and be seen at the same time, putting together two seemingly irreconcilable worlds. �Tecnema�, which has always fascinated and here becomes the place of observation of the �tabacaria�, is the symbol of an illusory world. From a real and ordinary situation, �finished� and enclosed by the walls of the attic, the poet conveys a feeling of infinity, eternity, through an expansion of the senses disintegrated from the tediousness of the existential poetic subject