A transformação pelo sacrifício: a metáfora de morte e vida em A leitora de poesia, de Marcos Faber

Abstract

This paper aims to analyse the novel A leitora de poesia by Marcos Alexandre Faber, published in 2021, by analysing the literary form based on the epistolary genre present in the novel. In this way, the characters Isabel and Afonso were assumed to be the sender and receiver, vice versa, of the plot's actions in Faber's novel. Starting with the character Isabel de Mello, we took the personification of poetry represented in the character's letters, as well as in the language assumed by the protagonists. To this end, the research presents a qualitative and bibliographical analysis, characterised by the novelistic form of the letters between the characters Isabel and Afonso. The epistolary genre is the favoured form for approaching the crisis of literary genres, and consequently of poetry, since this literary form sets the scene for the encounter between the poet and his admiring muse. In the course of our analysis, we thought it pertinent to consider the plot's dialogue with other classic works and, from the perspective of comparative literature studies, the research aimed to demarcate the influences of these works on the novel under analysis. As a theoretical contribution, we used literary theorists and critics and contributions from Aristotle (2005), Lajolo (1993), Alexandre Júnior (2015) and Soares (2007), to discuss literary genres and the epistolary genre in literature; Nitrini (2015) and Carvalhal (2006), in support of the concepts of comparative literature and, also, in assuming the concepts of contemporaneity, we took the studies of Agambem (2004, 2018) and Benjamin (1987), among others. The research has thus contributed to a reflection on the creation of poetic works and the crisis of poetry in contemporary society, especially through an understanding of the metaphor of death as the culmination of a sacrifice for human survival.