Particular Pasargadae: personal utopia, "exile" and refuges in the poetry of Max Martins and Leonardo Fróes

• Grant number: 24/06038-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: October 01, 2024
• End date: July 31, 2027
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Brazilian Literature
• Principal Investigator: Antônio Donizeti Pires
• Grantee: Marcus Vinícius Lessa de Lima
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil

Abstract

In Brazilian poetry from the mid-20th and early 21st centuries, the works and trajectories of Max Martins and Leonardo Fróes are distinguished by their relative isolation in comparison to the national panorama. Both their aesthetic projects were connected to a certain geography, a certain landscape, that has served each poet as a place to take refuge, or, figuratively speaking, to "exile" himself: for Max Martins, this place is the Marahu beach, on the Mosqueiro island (PA); for Leonardo Fróes, a family farm he built in Secretário, in the mountain regions of the state of Rio de Janeiro. This research analyzes how these spaces were medial points of a triple relation between the lives, the written work, and the personal utopia of these two poets, serving as an important axis of meaning in their poems, as well as a center that organizes their poetic thought. The critical metaphor of the Particular Pasargadae outlines the affinities, at the same time as it highlights the singularity of each trajectory, given the fact that both poets dealt with the problem of the place of language in human experience in a decisive, but different way.