Personal?
State: Not only personal, but also as a compulsive reader who knows a great diversity of literary styles. I remain a strong supporter of the masters. When we leave the Eças, Torgas and Pessoas, our classic and all do I like some young authors such as Joao de Melo, some African and South American writers, such as Gabriel Garcia Marques, when I see books that are beyond this standard of rigid cultural and intellectual value, then I lose interest. For me a simple story, a poem, whatever it is, necessarily have to have a message to society and I see many publications that do not have anything new. They try to copy the style of other authors, the book is not plagiarism, more in the concept and the form and they think this may make them great writers as these masters. There is much published which is worthless. The responsibility of this is the publisher, not the author who writes and presents it. A publishing company as a business must have a group of people who organize and endorse books, or not assign any value to a culture work. These parameters must be respected. This question of having many worthless books is the sole fault of the "liberal." I have nothing against them, has contributed a lot to support the writers of Madeira, there is a positive side to it. On the other hand, I have to take this credit off because public works without any cultural value, serve only to satisfy the ego of the author.
The islanders, in particular, from the Azores and Madeira, are more likely to write poetry, or not? It has to do with their essence?
UF: I understand that, in the terminology island. For a person who has the gift of writing and literary writing a poem, both can live on an island in terms of geography, territory surrounded by water, or within an island within a continent. We have several islands, even from the point of view of housing. Specifically, answering the questions about the poets, whether of Madera or other islands, I understand that, because the distance due to isolation are some of these factors will fuel this revolt, the message rather than a poet who lives in city with all the perks. In my personal opinion, the poet writes with more fluency and claw when they have more angers, whether cultural, social, political and economic.
The idea of the suffering artist?
UF: That is the idea of "suffering" that is, we do not agree with the situation, with humanity. It is the consternation that leads the poet to be on the counter and the only way to intervene is through writing. His weapon is the poem with all these contradictions. Of course, living in a geographical island, surrounded by sea, whether surrounded by the city or a neighborhood while an island in itself, the poem is the way they participate in civil society and in a cultural point of view, in my opinion, this is what leads them to write. In the particular case of Madeira and other islanders, this revolt is the result of continuous insulation, the vein, the desire to transcribe it to paper, is to communicate rather than a rifle or other weapons.
What are the authors that you recur frequently? Always present?
UF: I've heard that question from many people and not wanting to be different and coherent, I affirm that I have not a book. My support is not a single work may be two or three books by a particular author. Always resort to the masters of romance, philosophy, and poetry. In terms of what I intend to write, I want to convey the message, I'll drink from the authors the classical antiquity, the Greeks, to Plato, if necessary. I'm not exactly read one book, I am sorry for faithfulness, for truth, when I want to convey to the quality principle and a message, I will get Eça de Queirós has so many novels, to remember a certain situation, how he said it and how he criticized the society. I like to reread the works, but I always try to read new books. When I go to the shelf, sometimes, is not just the pleasure of rereading the author, may do it to revive the relevance of that text at that time. Much more, it serves as a benchmark, like a lot of comparative history, the contemporary writing from the point of view of information, politics and how it was written two hundred years ago and if we have this attention, we got the easy observation that a particular author had the same position of the rulers and the people. If we transcribe these grafts to the reality of today, or two years ago, fits perfectly, like a hat.
