Tempo e memória nas obras Corpo Breve e Os Pássaros da Memória, de Diógenes da Cunha Lima

Abstract

This research was designed with the purpose to offer a critical and analytical reading of memory and time in books like Corpo Breve (1980) e Os Pássaros da Memória (1994), written by the potiguar poet Diógenes da Cunha Lima. In the literary work of Cunha Lima, the time of poetry is not a time sung in a fixed way or related to a term or time, nor it’s a historical time, with its manifestations and contradictions. In the poet's view, there is a time of memories and reflections, a kind of inner time that every human being experiences as his own. The work Corpo Breve is made up of 53 poems of diverse themes focusing on the childhood of the lyrical self; Os Pássaros da Memória is composed of eight long poems, fragmented into 77 small parts, all presenting time as a title and subdivided as if they were fragments of memory. The development of the research presents a theoretical approach both to modern poetry and to memory in general way, later, configured within the limits of the poem, also presenting a critical approach, evidenced in the reading of several poems. The works O Ser e o Tempo na Poesia, from Alfredo Bosi (1983), Memória e Sociedade: Lembranças de Velhos, from Ecléa Bosi (1994), História e Memória, from Le Goff (1994), A Memória, a História, o Esquecimento, from Paul Ricoeur (2007), O Ser-Tempo, from André Comte-Sponville (2006), e Matéria e Memória from Henri Bergson (1999), together with other constants of the bibliographical references, were constituted fundamental theoretical anchors to discuss, in the poetry of Diogenes da Cunha Lima, questions related to memory, in practice, while exercised, and as ancient facts resurge, with the theme of time, through the lyrical self. It is a research of a reflective and interpretive character.