Viajar e existir em Primeiras Estórias, de João Guimarães Rosa

Abstract

Traveling and existing are original issues that launch us in search of ourselves, and manifest themselves as a demand for the word in search of knowing ourselves while in between. These questions are in dialogue with one of João Guimarães Rosa's most original and original works, Primeiras Estórias, in which he expresses the primary questions in which human beings inhabit, and which prevail as a language through plot-question, characters-question , question-images that lead the reader to ask himself about the meaning of being and life, in crossing, as poetic learning, towards unraveling the mystery-question of the book: “Did you come to exist? This study was born with the aim of researching how the issues of travel and existence are manifested in First Stories, having as hypothesis that, through the dialogue with the literary work, in which a narrative is perceived that projects the reader into and through the search of its being, we are launched on the crossing to seek a poetic education that leads us to the clearing of questioning, in which the mystery between all knowing and not knowing dwells, in search of what is our own — our humanity, and, for that reason , do we come to exist? The method — méta (between) hodós (path) — to be followed while choosing the theoretical paths to be taken is unveiled along the way. A possible route for this learning to happen was the poetic education that makes use of hermeneutic circularity as a reading-listening process of the literary work in which, when dialoguing with the work and questioning it, the reader becomes questioned by it, trying to fulfill his destiny: to become human in crossing: to exist. This research trip is justified, considering that in all of the search, there is a dialogue between the tension — a fold between being and non-being — and the texture — in force in a specific way in which the questions are unveiled in the being that is intended for each human — from an original dialogue that the work of Guimarães Rosa establishes with the roots of Western thought, in which, in its narratives, the travel-reading manifests itself in existing, and vice-versa, as a process ontological by which each human being is taken beyond the limits, inhabiting the dialectic between being-and-thinking. In "Porto de Arriving", I welcome the trip and welcome myself as a poetic experience of crossing, realizing that it is through the loving reading of First Stories that we show the ascension path of the human as a poetic-existential project of this grandiose work by Guimarães Rosa: our poetic learning that leads us to exist.