Guimarães Rosa: a poética de Miguilim e Grivo

Abstract

Starting from an interview with Guimarães Rosa to the German critic Günter Lorenz, this article analyzes the poetics of the Brazilian author, based on the relationship between the author and his work. Rosa’s statements on literary creation and the role of the writer will be confronted with his narratives, especially “Campo Geral” and “Cara-de-Bronze”, belonging to the cycle of novellas Corpo de Baile. The discussion will be based on the controversial topic of "death of the author", revisiting the essays of Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault on the subject, whose radicalism is nuanced by Dominique Maingueneau, which proposes a solution closer to the thought of Guimarães Rosa: a poetics formed by the confluence between the author and his work.