Catatau: literatura de obstrução em país bloqueado / Catatau: obstruction literature in locked country

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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These lines, along which one usually unfolds an abstract, might as well be termed as warning. Perhaps it would allow the reader a more vivid impression, once it consists not in a general presentation of the following pages, but rather an advice to the rash ones. One shall be brief. Not a map, just a script. On the course of this text one has tried to show why Catatau was chosen, instead of a maybe better finished novel or some acknowledged sample of what was typically written in Brazil during the 1970s. The present point of view: Catatau, as an art object, remains an impediment to the framing of a periods literary production and, at the same time, formalizes Brazilian artistic and social impasse over the decade. One reads Catatau as a privileged locus from which it is possible to apprehend an interpretation of Brazil through Paulo Leminskis correspondence dynamics between his avant-garde aspiration and its impossibility under an enclosing environment. Catatau, an enigma up to a certain point inscrutable in its qualities, derives its importance mainly from its possible and probable irregularities. A challenge beyond ones forces demands weaponry. In this sense, one has searched for the most adequate one to combat: a critical approach which, as methodological procedure and assumed position in text and life, would safely enlarge the visual array. Therefore, elements derived from the Critical Theory seemed precise as they made the target more vulnerable under ones assault. After reaching a just distance, one has tried to assail Catatau as a nonresolved literary problem. In this way it is possible to find, here and there along the work, attempts to solve it. However, this was never done straightforwardly; one has besieged Paulo Leminskis artistic activity, always departing from crucial moments in Catataus conception following to its reception during the turbulent lead-years. A category presented itself as a weak flank, the narrators. The authorial strategy product, Cartesius - given up formal realisms tricks and devices - tears the representational veils: discretely in the short story Descartes com Lentes, and yet more ostensively in Catatau, where avant-gardes spirit, especially in its derisory vein, inhabits the texts own body. Leminskis laughter oscillates between self-preservation and attack. Impasse is the result of such movement. The later echoes in Occams image, the obscure side of our delay neutralizes the Cartesian reason, as well as in Articzewskis, who Cartesius awaits. The allegoric vision seems us the portrayal of Renatus Cartesius oscillating between the weed and the lunette. While the unreason and the attendance support the impasse, our characteristic steadiness affords bad omens.

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brazilian literature - criticism and interpretation paulo leminski teoria crítica paulo leminski literatura brasileira - crítica e interpretação critical theory

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