O aprender poético na obra Grande Sertão: veredas de João Guimarãres Rosa

Abstract

The aim of the present research is to investigate the poetic learning in Grande Sertão: Veredas, book by João Guimarães Rosa. The guiding thread of this research is the meaning of thinking, like a letting ourselves be reached by the fundamental question of human as being-in-the-world, that is exposed in the way of its ontological constitution by the originary language, in the ontological construct of the character Riobaldo. In this sense, the intention is to investigate the original poetic meaning that is woven in the Guimarães Rosa masterpiece to situate it as a poetic-educative narrative: poetic because it realizes the ontological truth of being, and educative because it realizes the human being as caretaker of this truth, as a being whose essence is being-in-the-world. Not the human being, considered a formal subject of knowledge, as entifying experience within the predetermined conditions of a science, but one who can only be found in the finite situation of the crossing and that is realized as a finite transcendence. Grande Sertão: veredas should be considered a cosmogonic narrative that introduces the poetic learning as originary language and unveils, in the Riobaldo’s track, the hermeneutic crossing of learning, as the task of a questioning thinking that realizes the human being in the world. In conclusion, this study also intends to show that the rosiana narrative is poetic, because it crosses the word in instrumental use, and thus reveals the originary language as a poetic expression. Language is poetic because it makes known the very hidden in the impropriety of existence in the world. It is the expression of the poet-thinker because all language is originally poetry.