A verbalização do olhar: a memória e a paisagem em, Litania da Velha

Abstract

This dissertation proposes the study of the literary work Litania da Velha (1996), by Arlete Nogueira da Cruz Machado (1936), based on the relationship between poetry, memory and landscape, considering the poem as a verbalized look of its protagonist, evidenced by the poetic narrator. The arletian magnum opus is presented in a narrative poem, whose diegesis has an anonymous beggar character who, in his solitary routine, walks, for the last time, in the historic center of the city of São Luís. The character goes through four discursive sequences - remember, walk, rest and fall - through which this reading is raised, methodologically. For the action of remembering, supported by the thoughts of Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Le Goff, Maurice Halbwachs and Henri Bergson, the nuances of memory and how it manifests itself in the literary text are discussed. In the action of walking, from the perspective of Gaston Bachelard, towards the poetics of space, and Yi-fu Tuan and Eric Dardel, for the relationship with space, we sought to understand how the landscape is constructed and represented in the poem. Taken by the character's poetic act, which stops and rests on a step, we glimpse the notions of place, as a discontinuity of space, and non-place, as a transitory place, respectively, under the ideas of Edward Relph and Mac Augé. As the poem ends, the experience of the character's fall reveals social spaces and places through which the character establishes his identity. In this context, the theoretical debate with the poem, also from the perspective of phenomenology, by Merleu-Ponty, leads us to the perception of memory and landscape in the Arletian lyric