O andarilho Bernardo na produção poética de Manoel de Barros

Abstract

This article focuses on the poetic production of Manoel de Barros and, more specifically, on the aesthetic life of Bernardo, his most recurring character who personifies the wandering in no hurry, the lack of concern about time and the disruption of the idea of a fixed identity. The present analysis points out that the world of Bernardo emerges from images which progressively shift from a social nature (which is stronger in the first books of Barros) to a mythic vision (in a process that breaks the line past/present/future) and that his movement enlarges the relation between man and nature, as well as between man and himself. As a theoretical approach, the poetic and philosophical perspective of Gaston Bachelard enabled the study of those images as poetic daydreams and the ideas of Octavio Paz and Mircea Eliade were considered to highlight the relation between Bernardo and the sacred.