Intimacy in Belmiro Borba, irony in Cyro dos Anjos

Authors

  • Carlinda Fragale Pate Nuñez UERJ/CNPq
  • Eduardo Guerreiro Brito Losso UFRRJ

Keywords:

O Amanuense Belmiro, Literary Asceticism, Irony, Modern myth, Lyricism, Cyro dos Anjos.

Abstract

Cyro dos Anjos’s fictional diary O Amanuense Belmiro was greatly praised by the best Brazilian criticism, but did not reach the deserved recognition. Since its publication (1937) until today, the masterpiece has been studied, which demonstrates property to remain current as well as available to new approaches, in harmony with academic or non-academic standards. This is also the clearest signal of its richness and complexity. In this article, the novel-diary is approached by some aspects which do not appear in its critical fortune, due to the unavailable bibliography, or authorial ability to dissimulate his resources. By a perspective that absorbs, but goes further than Foucault’s teachings about self writing, the article discusses four determinant topics concerning the aesthetic subject and the intimate book he produces. These topics are: literary asceticism, modern myth, irony and lyricism. Although such topics are not obviously connected, they integrate a logical whole, which overtakes the impasses about author/narrator identification.

Author Biographies

Carlinda Fragale Pate Nuñez, UERJ/CNPq

Professora Adjunta do Instituto de Letras da UERJ. Mestre (1986) e Doutora (1991) em Ciência da Literatura pela UFRJ, com estágio de Pós-Doutorado na Albert-Ludwigs-Universität/Freiburg (1997). É atualmente coordenadora do Doutorado em Literatura Comparada da UERJ. Organizou vários livros, dos quais o mais recente, com Francisco Venceslau dos Santos, é O Intelectual, a literatura e o poder (Rio de Janeiro: Caetés, 2008). Publicou Electra ou uma constelação de sentidos (Goiânia: UCG, 2000). Os ensaios mais recentes versam sobre figurações do imaginário, em suas interseções com a filosofia da história e a geografia cultural.

Eduardo Guerreiro Brito Losso, UFRRJ

Professor Adjunto em Teoria da Literatura da UFRRJ. Mestre (2002) e Doutor (2007) em Ciência da Literatura pela UFRJ, com bolsa sanduíche na Universität Leipzig (2004-2007, Alemanha). Organizou com Cornelia Sieber e Claudia Gronemann o livro Diferencia minoritaria en Latinoamérica (Zürich: Georg Olms, 2008) e organizou o colóquio franco-alemão “Sehnsucht und der europäische Traum – Nostalgie et le rêve européen” na Maison Heinrich-Heine em Paris, em 2006. Publicou uma série de artigos sobre o sublime na poesia moderna, escola de Frankfurt, indústria cultural e a secularização da mística na literatura moderna.

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Published

2009-12-30

How to Cite

Nuñez, C. F. P., & Losso, E. G. B. (2009). Intimacy in Belmiro Borba, irony in Cyro dos Anjos. MATRAGA - Journal Published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio De Janeiro State University (UERJ), 16(25). Retrieved from https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/matraga/article/view/27781

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 25 (2009): Intimacy and Literature

Section

Literature Papers

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