Essays

Guimarães Rosa And Literature As Life

Maria Lucia Guimarães de Faria ; Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

Guimarães Rosa’s stories beget a poetic-existencial project, which unveils itself in the story "The mirror", core of the book First stories. In this story a thesis is launched which proposes life as a continuous exertion of creativity, of which depends the conquest of an autonomy and the genesis of a self, who brings his existence forth as the author of his own becoming. After presenting the Rosian story and the constellation of poetic concepts it gives rise to, and besides examining the critic-passionate operation its reading requires, the present essay assumes the task of interpreting two stories, one from First stories, the other from Tutameia. Third stories – "Darandina " and "– Uai, eu?" – showing the Rosian project in action in two radically distinct situations, which nevertheless retain sufficient similarity to highlight and embody the primordial idea they proceed from and also to suggest a kinship between first and third stories, associated in what we might name the Rosian pedagogy of existing.

Keywords

existing; transcending; psychiartist; metamorphosis; learning

Hrčak ID:

170998

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/170998

Publication date:

18.11.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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