Notas sobre a correspondência de João Cabral de Melo Neto – entre o texto e os gestos, a elaboração de uma dicção "antiepistolar” como máquina de produção de si

Abstract

This article proposes a reading of two unpublished letters, sent from João Cabral de Melo Neto to Rubem Braga and Lauro Escorel, kept in the AMLB (Archive-Museum of Brazilian Literature) at the Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, and of the critical bibliography published about João Cabral's letters until now. The main issue to be discussed in this article is a paradox between what Cabral professed, in his mail, presenting himself as an "anti-epistolary" letter writer, and the gestures he made - especially as keeping and preserving his own letters. This article contributes to the studies of João Cabral de Melo Neto's letters and to the discussion about an "anti-epistolary" tendency in his mail, which could be taken as analogous to the "anti-lyricism" the author proposes as his own poetic diction.