Manoel de Barros: peraltices e traquinagens com a palavra poética

Abstract

Manoel de Barros’ writing presents itself to the reader as an unknown universe, yet to be discovered. Even with texts directed to the pre-teen public, his adventures with the poetic word, his escape from logic, as well as his twisted ways of seeing the world around him, draws attention from those who get in contact with his masterpieces. This dissertation, done with contributions from Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes, Gaston Bachelard, Michel Foucault, among others, has the objective of entering Manoel de Barros’s poetic universe and observe how his incessant work with words, his attempts to reach the naked word, more primitive, with emphasis on the signifier, contributes to the construction of a writing that breaks away from poetic standards, rejects rules and the normal logic, as well as brings to the reader an explosion of images that are never pre conceived, but are always awaiting to be formed at every read of the text, at each new look of his literary work. With this in mind, we have selected in Manoel de Barros’ work, directed at the pre-teen readers, his books entitled Arranjos para assobio, Livro sobre nada, Ensaios fotograficos e Retrato do artista quando coisa, which was not limited to this work alone, but also expanded to other of Barros’ work. How does Barros’ writing, in his pre-teen work, convey his message since the author does not respect parameters and limits? How does his work with words and his efforts to penetrate their utmost primitive state, contributes to the existence of poetry that breaks away from poetic standards? How does Manoel de Barros sees poetry and how he perceives each element involved in the creative literary process? These are some of the questions that were discussed during this voyage inside Barros’ texts, however other questions were left unanswered, or not totally understood, but all questions received enough attention and expressions of interest, although did not try to understand the mysteries of Manoel de Barros’ writing, but only tried to perceive how they are presented.