Deciphering the signs of intimacy: readings of Al Berto

Author(s)

Leonardo de Barros Sasaki

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2012-11-26

Examining board members

Annie Gisele Fernandes; Ida Maria Santos Ferreira Alves; Monica Muniz de Souza Simas

• Advisor: Annie Gisele Fernandes

Abstract

The work of Al Berto is inserted in an aesthetic framework which recovers a more emotional and sentimental poetic diction, places greater emphasis on the contact with immediate reality and narrows and blurs the limits between life and art. In order to clearly outline this context, we also evoke some questions such as the concept of authenticity, of sentimental and naïve poetry, or that of concurrence or not between poem and poetry, among others. One of the background issues related to these traits is intimacy or the writing of intimacy, which is full of tensions and dilemmas in the contemporary biographical space. The analytical structure of the dissertation is based on the two movements of the self-questioning intimacy: objectification of the subject and subjectification of objects. Thus, we primarily seek to discuss the notion of poetic narcissism and elucidate the process of constitution of the so-called \"text-body\" and its figurations: \"small demiurge\", \"the seismic center of the world\", \"the nocturnal monk\" and \"the last inhabitant. Trauma and abjection are concepts that help us read the poems in this specific part of the study. Finally, we investigate the relations of the attentive and lonely poetic subject to his everyday objects regarded as signs of reality and of the individual himself. We also articulate this analysis with the stylistic use of enumerations and inventories in a bivalent form: a) as an expression of the fragmentation of the world and another, and b) as a discourse of deconstruction and resistance. Hence, the structure of the dissertation should be considered in its complementary chapters: both deal with the writing of intimacy paradoxically and simultaneously regarded as presence and absence of the real, or as affirmation and denial of subjectivity, or even as assimilation and displacement of canonical writings of the self. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/14456-8 - Deciphering the signs of intimacy: readings of Al Berto
• Grantee: Leonardo de Barros Sasaki
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master