O cânone crítico-poético de Manoel de Barros

Abstract

This study aims to examine the critical-poetic literary canon in Manoel de Barros. The self-reflexivity in Barros’ poetry forms a creative consciousness which articulates literary creation and critical invention in the poetic space. In Manoel de Barros’s works, the poems question the crisis of the word and the compositional process which giving form to intentions presented in the author’s essays allows us to depict the poet’s aesthetic project. The choice of a universe of ordinary things, the preference for that which despised by society, the feeling of fragmentation, the search of an Adamic word, which denotates a lost language – all this are some of the recurrent motives that are interwoven to the liric voice of Barros’s poetry. Departing from a reshaping of the poetic canon that can be obtained by mean of a critical approach to poetry, we will examine the “critical metaphor” – the precarious condition in which the insertion of poetry in the world as metaphor inaugurates the space of criticism of the word as well as the criticism of mechanisms used for representation of reality.