A metáfora como possibilidade autobiográfica: um breve ensaio

Abstract

The present paper aims to present the Virginia Woolf essay (1882-1941), “The Sun and the Fish”, dated 1927, through the analysis of the use of metaphor as an explanatory possibility, using as a starting point the experience of reading the tale. Having as a motto the solar eclipse occurred in 1927, I propose the questioning around the vision, the metaphor and the experience of the lived before the use of fictional mechanisms for the description of the event. For this, I use as interlocutor the work Shipwreck with Spectator by Hans Blumenberg. Analyzing Virginia Woolf's narrative, the proposal is to delve into the eye and the experience narrated there, beginning with the vision of Londoners walking north to witness something grandiose: nature in its purest sense and how it would result in an experience likely to be told only in the clash between the individual and the others who share the moment.