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| Author(s): |
Leonardo de Barros Sasaki
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2017-12-15 |
| Examining board members: |
Annie Gisele Fernandes;
Ida Maria Santos Ferreira Alves;
Leonardo Garcia Santos Gandolfi;
Lilian Jacoto;
Silvana Maria Pessôa de Oliveira
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| Advisor: | Annie Gisele Fernandes |
| Abstract | |
Al Berto built his literary work deeply based on the writing of emotions in a discourse in tune and tension with the autobiographical canonical genres and marked by the excess, the obsession, the senses of the body and the unknown. His poetry was located, therefore, in the antipodes of a retained, decanted, calculated, abstracted, philosophizing-theorizing and other predicates in this field. In this perspective, the specific, the fear, is central as an instrument or, still, as a privileged and structuring channel of his poetic praxis. We are interested, in this direction, in understanding a) how the relations between fear and literature are established, starting from Al Berto\'s work; b) how he creates a lyric subject irremediably marked by fear in its causes and effects such as insecurity, lack of control, vulnerability, pessimism, fatalism, etc.; and c) what treatment archetypes of fear namely catastrophes, diseases and death receive in his poetry. By mobilizing the cultural memory of the emotion, which includes literary tradition, Al Berto transforms it, working through language, into an ambivalent force of its writing. It is the constant and never appeased friction of the paradox of the one who writes against fear and nourishes it in doing so. Emotion, therefore, mediates simultaneous movements of order and chaos, attraction and aversion, health and disease, creation and destruction. In contiguity with that dynamic, we organize the chapters through equally ambiguous figures these are the cases, respectively, of shipwrecks, contagion and suicide. Al Berto reviews historical paradigms of fear and places them in an unstable terrain. Thus, shipwrecks also become manifestation of human life; plagues become a way of sharing life; suicides become the very possibility of transit between life and poetry. Al Berto thus recovers the original duplicity of risk, that is, he opens up to negative and positive possibilities of the poem. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/02716-3 - "the enduring awe of hands": Al Berto and the writing of fear |
| Grantee: | Leonardo de Barros Sasaki |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |