The objective of Desassossego, magazine of the Post-Graduation Program in Portuguese Literature of the University of São Paulo (FFLCH/ USP), is to disseminate the unpublished academic production (articles, interviews and reviews) of graduate students and teachers, related to even if the authors belong to other areas of expertise.

The journal also accepts unpublished literary texts, in prose or verse, from students enrolled in any graduate programs or university professors.

Access our issues at: https://www.revistas.usp.br/desassossego/issue/archive

Read, below, a little of the course of our Journal, in the words of some of its first collaborators:

But what good restlessness!

Restlessness is what the master and doctoral students feel in their journey through graduate school. Simple matter in search of its form, the restlessness and disturbance that move the unrest tend to be productive and creative. The proof of this is on your screen page.

The disquiet that was virtual reality, restless eagerness to be, has just materialized in the form of a magazine the electronic journal of the students of the Post-Graduation Program of Portuguese Literature of the Department of Classical and Vernacular Letters of the University of São Paulo.

With Desassossego, the project of an electronic publication that aims to give visibility to the work being developed under the Program is realized. With Desassossego is created the space for debate, circulation and exchange of ideas, by housing the academic and artistic production of students and doctoral students in Portuguese Literature.
With Desassossego open paths of reflection whose results, born from the dialogue between teachers and students of the program, or the research carried out, can be disclosed and followed here.

Finally, as a result of the creative unrest and the work of the organizing team, it is only up to the Post-Graduation Program in Portuguese Literature to thank them for their initiative, give them the necessary support and wish long life to our Desassossego.

Francisco Maciel Silveira (in memoriam)
Professor of the Post-Graduation Program in Portuguese Literature - DLCV - FFLCH - USP

Around one name, many worlds.

"Every effort, whatever the end for which it tends, suffers, when manifested, the deviations that life imposes; becomes another effort, serves other purposes, sometimes consumes the same opposite of what he intended to accomplish. Only a low end is worth, because only a low end can be fully effected."
Bernardo Soares, Book of unrest

Restlessness is not a simple name, nor is it a simple name, if it was any name. Some words, when rewritten, are already born full of meaning - they hardly reach the world and are already taken by circumstances: it is almost impossible not to read in this name Fernando Pessoa or, if you prefer, Bernardo Soares, an undeniable filiation, even more when the circumstances point to a Literature Journal of the students of the Post-Graduation in Portuguese Studies of the University of São Paulo, after all a name is always a choice, a decision.

Some might even say: "Nothing more without news than a magazine of Portuguese literature that takes up Fernando Pessoa," which would not deserve disagreement, if we kept only in the literality of the word, reducing it to the Personian universe - even if this is an endless number of possibilities. Leyla Perrone-Moisés, in a critical study of the Book of Restlessness, poses the question: "Would it be too risky to read, in Desessigo: De-a-só-sem-ego?" Regardless of the answer, it is interesting to perceive, in the gesture of criticism, the desire to open the name, disassembling and fragmenting it, to read, in its formation, other possibilities of meanings.

Book of restlessness, an "anti-book" or a "book in ruins", as Richard Zenith recalls, for being an open and loose project, a book that never actually came to be assembled and published in a definitive version by Pessoa, remains as a power: perhaps we should try to read, in the lines of that name, the questions that pervade it, beyond the name of an author, questions that, enlarged, say much about today’s time, a time, invariably restless - cross a name to think and rethink the world.

Yes, we come to the world through Fernando Pessoa, an inseparable name of a country, a culture, an era, but it is by the sibilant and sinuous curves, threads of the name restless, that we hope to cross, scraping or bias, even if in the opposite, questions or urgencies of a being in the world in restlessness. And it is pulling by this name, by the thread of writing, redrawing the curves, that we repeat and reiterate the name as a difference: restlessness.

Érica Zíngano
Editorial Committee
Master of the Postgraduate Program in Portuguese Literature - USP, from 2008 to 2011.