Luminescências de Estrela da Vida Inteira

Abstract

The analysys of Estrela da vida inteira (2008), an anthology of the poems published by Manuel Bandeira, under the scrutiny of a hermeneutic of plural concepts, confirms the poet as an important exponent of erotic poetry in Brazilian literature. The aspects that distinguish the erotic poetics of the author are investigated, bringing to the scene interpretative voices that influenced his amorous lyric, as well as conceptions about the relations between Eros and memory, desire, finitude, transgression, language and poetry. Polymorph, Eros was and is present in the most various sociocultural discourses and appears in the poetry of this Brazilian bard in a singular and multiple way, as paradoxical as the myth that originated it. From the myth, its conception involves a peculiar knowledge. Therefore, at the course in scene were also brought theoretical voices in which echo an understanding of eroticism as a modality of human knowledge, in order to instigate not only literary criticism, but also the search and reflection for which cultural knowledge and conceptions are expressed in erotic poetic of Manuel Bandeira.