Luanda - The literary and poetical dimension of António Agostinho Neto was on Monday, in Luanda, subject of a roundtable, with the main speaker being the Brazilian journalist Nelito Oliveira.
Invited to speak on "Agostinho Neto and poetics of the multiple", in a roundtable, under the commemorations of the Agostinho Neto centenary marked on September 17, Nelito Oliveira said the late poet and statesman puts a dimension of unity in his texts, with the voices of the Angolan community constituting the body of his poetry.
"To speak of António Agostinho Neto is to perceive that it does not constitute a case of the past or a statue, but to know that his living workmanship represents the design of the historical process that is still open", Oliveira said.
To the lecturer, in the workmanship of Neto, multiple aspects are seen, leaving a normative dimension for the creative one, leaving a mark with the pronoun We, his workmanship deemed subversive until current times.
"We see in Agostinho Neto the resistance of the society", Oliveira concluded.
António Agostinho Neto was born on September 17, 1922, in Kaxicane, Icolo e Bengo, and died on September 10, 1979.
As Angola's first president, he proclaimed the country's independence from the then Portuguese colonial yoke, on November 11, 1975.
He is a reference of national culture, having written several poetry works translated into various languages, with emphasis on "Four Poems of Agostinho Neto", in 1957, "Sacred Hope" (1974) and "The Impossible Renunciation" (1982).
