Campos de Carvalho e o diálogo no abismo: uma leitura a partir de Maurice Blanchot

Abstract

The writing of Campos de Carvalho — or l’ecriture in Blanchotian terms — although still not widespread, whether in literary or academic circles, raises many questions as if it has been written now, even though his work dates back to 60 years ago. Not only the questions not answered, but the fragmented manner of his narrative, the dialog between reason and unreason, the intersection with Surrealism, the non-memory diaries and all the potency — in the sense explored both by Giorgio Agamben and Maurice Blanchot — that emanates from his work light up the discussions we suggest here about wandering, the fragmentation of self, the interpretation of alétheia according to Heidegger, time without past or presence, the dubiousness of the pharmakon as brought up by Jacques Derrida, the non-dialectic notion between states always understood as opposites, like truth and lie. We will explore those ideas in order to bring them close and reach an understanding of contemporaneity — a term we absorb without chronological parameters — in literature via Campos de Carvalho and Maurice Blanchot.