O heroismo trágico de Aquiles e Augusto Matraga: um estudo de herói grego e do herói cristão, em Homero e Guimarães Rosa

Abstract

In the present paper, we will discuss how the tragic heroism occurs, specifically in Homero's The Iliada, in dialogue with the tale “The Time and the Time of Augusto Matraga”, of Guimarães Rosa. The aim of this study is to think of the tragic hero in literature, analyzing ontological questions of the human, such as anguish and his fear in the phenomenon of finitude, where auscultation of the sacred occurs in the voices of the gods, in time and in the world. The tragic will be an essential point to be presented here, because the hero is one who, even in the face of terror, where normally the heart is possessed by human anguish and despair, stands before finitude. In this way, we perceive Aquiles as a classic Greek hero who is characterized as tragic as he faces himself in the abyss of death, and Augusto Matraga as a tragic christian hero, for he is the one who walks on the path of conversion and in this path does not fear losing the very life. In this path we contemplate a hatch of conflicts, values and poetic events. This paper dialogues with authors who discuss in an ontological perspective the hero, the tragic, the finitude as Campbell (1949), Heidegger (2010), Kierkegaard (1979), Staiger (1977), Szondi (2004) and others.