title: [The entire life that might have been but was not: the story of a poet with pulmonary phthisis].
abstract: In a sketch of the life history of poet Manuel Bandeira (1886-1968) from the moment his tuberculosis was diagnosed, the article analyzes the various phases Bandeira went through in his experience with the illness. Knowing that one is afflicted with a serious disease impels efforts to preserve one's identity, to adjust to living with the disease, and to mobilize resources to fight it. Living with the progression of a disease in fact prompts the afflicted individual to undertake a systematic reconstruction of his or her identity. As the article shows, poetry was the instrument Bandeira used to reshape his own self-image.
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authors.lastname: Porto
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D011037:Poetry as Topic / Q000266:history*; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: A vida inteira que podia ter sido e que nao foi: trajetoria de um poeta tisico.