"the enduring awe of hands": Al Berto and the writing of fear

• Grant number: 13/02716-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: July 01, 2013
• End date: May 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Other Vernacular Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Annie Gisele Fernandes
• Grantee: Leonardo de Barros Sasaki
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/04638-5 - On calendar of fear: al Berto, Portuguese poetry and fear, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Starting from the title of his complete works, "The Fear", and its constant thematization, we aim to discuss the centrality of fear in the work of Al Berto. Such feeling is directly linked to the establishment of a neo-decadent poetic subject (ie, fragile, melancholic and hypersensitive), whose voice establishes itself as intimate statement that manifests contemporary dilemmas. From this perspective, we observe and debate the relationship between fear and literature in the figuration of the Albertian persona: either by the metalinguistic perspective of the creative act (and the parallels between the phobic and artistic operations of symbolization), or by its thematization which articulates the literary and historical contexts of contemporary society (fear of eternal becoming and fragmentation of identity, loneliness, and death).

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SASAKI, Leonardo de Barros. \the enduring awe of hands\: Al Berto and the writing of fear. 2017. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.