No limiar do inefável: a relação humano-animal na poética de Orides Fontela

Abstract

This work scrutinizes the relation of human-animal in the poetics of Orides Fontela. This view is taken as an initial perspective perception that human lives have always been attached to animals' lives somehow, whenever it was in a positive way or in a pernicious way. In turn literature, as one of the spirits of age, has always held into the non-human an important character as on prose as on poetry. However, until the present moment are incipient researches that dedicate themselves to the study of a human-animal relation. Given that, this research is guided by the following questions: How are the animals represented in the literary field? How is the human-animal relation in Oride’s poems and in what way may the animal be perceived in the poet’s poems? Because of this, from the hypotheses that human-animal interaction in Fontela’s poetics it’s deliberated by two inherent aspects of a human condition: the delight of existence and the desire to understand the subtleties of being. In this perspective, appreciated, as the I of the poem singularizes and seeks to understand its radicality from the existence of winged being – the bird figure. In light of this, the work enters into ecocriticism perspective –once it investigates the relation human and environment (nature) - taking as epistemological proposal and Phenomenology. For that it is landed the theoretical studies of William Rueckert (1978); Serge Moscovici (2007); Greg Garrard (2006); Jacques Derrida (2002); Jean-Paul Ronecker (1997); Gilbert Durant (2012); Merleau-Ponty (2004); Octavio Paz (2012) and in the perspectives and critics of Almeida (2008 e 2014); Ângela Maria Guida (2001); Evely Vânia Liboranari (2015); Afonso Henrique Menezes (2002), as well as it anchors in other scholars who have dedicated themselves towards the deduction of this object of this research. The present study has revealed nuances from the dialectic relation between human and non-human wavering Manicheism and allowing to cross through the threshold that puts the radicalisms of being in the counterpoint of existential.