Só as coisas rasteiras me celestam: o contemporâneo e as suas insignificâncias em Manoel de Barros

Abstract

This dissertation aims to explore, through categories of interpretation, poetic matters in the work of Manoel de Barros. The research begins with a discussion about crisis of the verse, one of the most substantial features of Modern Literature, which, in studying it, reveals the changing perspectives that poetry has passed from the end of 19th century to the present. Then, the use of the prefix des, so recurrent in this poetic exercise, as an autonomous construction of the words: deslimites. Finally, how the manoelinos verses fit into the contemporary; and the singular figure of the tiny, uplifting things from the ground. The study was constructed from the inquiry of the issues, above, through the works taken from the edition of Poesia Completa (2013): Matéria de Poesia (1970), O Guardador de Águas (1989), O Livro das Ignorãças (1993), Livro Sobre Nada (1996) e Retrato do Artista Quando Coisa (1998); and it is based, mainly, with the theoretical contribution of Marcos Siscar on the crisis of the verse when questioning the state of contemporary Brazilian poetry; Alberto Pucheu with the description established by him to Manoel de Barros: poet -thinker, because the origin is a constant argument in his poetry; Maurice Blanchot about the death of the nomination in Literature and Giorgio Agamben from the question of what is to be contemporary.