Desver o mundo: da palavra poética de Manoel de Barros ao gesto de leitura

Abstract

This paper proposes the construction of anupdated gesture of reading of the poetic work of Manoel de Barros, expecting to foster theoretical and political implications of the proposition that we need todesver( “unsee”, tranlated literally) the world through the word. Such proposition was floatedin the book O Menino do Mato ( The boy from the woodlands, translated literally), published in 2010. The analysis of the fragment guidedme to think about the relationship between literature and life, literature and politics, for which were taken, as fundamental references,the ideas of Maurice Blanchot and Gilles Deleuze on the literary field, mainly, the concept of the Outside and Plane of Immanence.Besides the authors mentioned, in order to reflect upon the modern poetic topos,other references from theorists of the modernity were used. I highlight the following names: Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Octavio Paz, Hugo Friedrich and Marcos Siscar were important to scrutinize the paradoxes that make Barros‟s poetry, founded on the bases of modernity, complex and intriguing, echoing in the contemporary reader. In order to talk about the act of reading, reinvented through the plunge into the work of Manoel de Barros, I borrow ideas fromthe authors Pierre Lévy, Jorge Larrosa, Eliana Yunes, and once again, Gilles Deleuze.