This study proposes a comprehensive reading of some aspects of Paulo Leminski's letters, essays and biographical writings. A number of points will be raised that will allow, in function of the links between experiences in living and in language, an understanding of Leminski's choice of a hybrid sort of intellectual activity, questioning the boundary lines assumed by the culture of his time, as well as _ given the limits of his time _ his very concept of contemporariness, haunted by the aterlifeacters from other times and relativized by his own early death.
experience; death; survival; language