A concepção estética do pigmalião e os efeitos artísticos da mimesis no romance A Nova Heloísa

Abstract

This paper aims to emphasize the fundamental and primal approach which Rousseau does to his own aesthetical conception, so admired by the Pre-romantics among the Sturm und Draug, the “Perfect Art” which would be represented in the lyrical scene of Pigmalião is pre- expressed in the Nova Heloísa with the revelation of the two doodles: the secret of fabrication of wines and the making of the mystery of the woods, also the explanation of the artistical effects of the mimesis of Rousseau in which the art which will be finished becomes nature again, for nature, being the “artificial garden” or “wine” cannot remain an art work, it cannot simply “appear to be”, it must “be perfect”, so, on the contrary it is no longer an art.