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The unsaveable survivor: time and image in The fourth cross by Weydson Barros Leal
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| Author(s): |
Danielle Marinho
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem |
| Defense date: | 2015-06-15 |
| Examining board members: |
Eduardo Sterzi;
Pedro Emanuel Rosa Grincho Serra;
Alcir Pécora
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| Advisor: | Eduardo Sterzi |
| Abstract | |
If the question to be answered today is the survival of mankind in a wasteland ¿ in a environmental and civilizational meaning ¿, and if there is an effort to create in the midst of this dispersion, as it is the poetic attempt, then the world that is revealed is not made of the presence and integrity, is a world whose image is also ruined. The poet who deals with this destruction creates in the poem a field of resurgence of images and words, where vibrates, as a potencial of the rest, the fact that they have endured, though. In this context, the book "A quarta cruz" ("The fourth cross"), written by Weydson Barros Leal, becomes denser, since their poetic images are visions of the crisis, the ruin, the loss of image, or the image that remains despite the destruction. The cross of Weydson Leal is carved in time, in memory, in despair; it is ashes surviving the fire, the catastrophe of the word, the cry of silence; it is vision of the darkness, form of excess, presence of emptiness. His poetic images are disappearances and reappearances, forming what we call, based on Georges Didi-Huberman, a poetics of survival. If this inventive peculiarity can be considered not only in its dimension of crisis, but also as analysis of this crisis, then, somehow, the ruins of the world image that make up his poetic organize our awareness of being survivors, that is, it organizes our pessimism, because it establishes the survival of words and images when our very survival is compromised. Turning to the future, the poet cannot redeem his work because his condition is life he have left, late, irreparable, unsaveable, as Giorgio Agamben defines. The poet must, finally, affirm that we are destructible and indestructible, and from that paradox disseminate survivals (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/01122-2 - The poetic visionarism in the work of Weydson Barros Leal |
| Grantee: | Danielle Marinho |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |