Eros and the travel-book: another reading of Galaxies by Haroldo de Campos

• Grant number: 23/00075-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: August 01, 2023
• End date: January 05, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Brazilian Literature
• Principal Investigator: Wilton José Marques
• Grantee: Monalisa Medrado Bomfim
• Supervisor: Michel Robert Jean Riaudel
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4), France
• Associated to the scholarship: 21/00747-5 - Eros and the travel-book: another reading of Galaxies by Haroldo de Campos, BP.DR

Abstract

The present research objective is to discuss Galáxias, by Haroldo de Campos, having as a perspective the poem erotic language. The galactic fragments own different levels of eroticism; therefore, they will be thought of from the Barthesian seams perspective, in which the erotic of the text takes place at the limit of languages and idioms fruition which, in Galáxias, also converge with the figures of women. The fragments corpus selected here take into account those women who bring forward a representation prior to the poem, which is associated with another artistic materiality. They are paintings, sculptures and architecture that cross the Haroldo de Campos pathways, reverberating in the journeys of poetic speaker and resisting semiotically in the travel-book. In the book, the journey is an initiation ritual of the poetic speaker, who is transformed at each fragment, or at each meeting with other artistic objects, which flows into coming to a climax. From meeting to meeting, traveling through fragments, the poetic speaker pursues the jouissance. Therefore, traveling along the travel-book route and knowing these artistic objects is an important step towards understanding the semiotic dialogs established in the poem. In this sense, the poet's travels may contribute to research itinerary construction. However, the biographical data are little important in the intended intersemiotic analysis. Finally, deepening and updating the bibliography on erotism and semiotics will be another priority of this work. (AU)