THE MEMORY OF ULYSSES

Marco Lucchesi is astonishing in the breadth of his cultural activities. One of the country's most important translators and literary critics, he is also a magazine editor and language scholar—in addition to being one of the most well-known, appreciated, and award-winning Brazilian poets. What is most impressive, however, is his ability to navigate these activities with coherence and rigor. His ability to express himself in plurality. Lucchesi moves between dream and reality. Between meaning and abandonment. Nothing is more natural for a poet who, like the alchemists, works with opposites, with Apollonian madness and Dionysian sobriety. There is a ceaseless movement in search of a lost meaning, an interpretation of the world. A MEMÓRIA DE ULISSES, a collection of the author's texts, offers a unique opportunity to reread or discover an important part of Lucchesi's literary creation. The collection also includes some texts published in the press and the unpublished *Rachel Jardim: Anos 40*, about the novelist and memoirist from Minas Gerais. Divided into five parts, the book presents nearly 50 of Lucchesi's best and most interesting texts. Here, he discusses Ibsen, Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Gunther Grass. He revisits Descartes, analyzes the poetics of Quixote, dissects Schopenhauer, and journeys into the universe of Goethe. *A MEMÓRIA DE ULISSES* confirms the author's tendency to deconstruct the structure of the text, to "deceive words." Possessing profound verbal precision, Lucchesi is no ordinary author. His texts eschew simplicity while remaining open to creativity. The result is a blend of prose and poetry, in a language that demands the reader's attention.