O labirinto lírico do desejo em Júbilo, memória, noviciado da paixão, de Hilda Hilst

Abstract

This study has a focus on Hilda Hilst’s lyric poetry, one of the most celebrated voices of the Brazilian literature in our times. It aims to reflect on the aesthetic and ethical condition of the absent-body, whose search, driven by the desire of the poetic self, builds the construction of the lyrical-loving discourse present in the book Júbilo, memória, noviciado da paixão (1974). As a fundamental corpus of this research, this publication from 1974 marks the second phase of Hilst poetry, which finally attracts the attention of national literary critics. In this work are analysed the relationships present in Hilst's poetry, between absent-body and desired-body, understanding the poetic form as a body of realization of the love experience. The long-lived tradition of Portuguese Language poetry and the echoes of classical mythology are inevitably revisited by summoning her work. The research has as main theoretical assumptions the contributions of Rafael López-Pedraza (2010), Elizabeth Roudinesco (2019), Georges Bataille (2017) and (2018), Chauí (1990), Octávio Paz (1983), (1994) and (2012), Roland Barthes (2003), focusing on desire and absence interfaces and on the analysis of verse; Mikhail Bakhtin (2011) and his formulations about the ethical and aesthetic body; and Alcir Pécora, Cristiano Diniz, Nelly Novaes Coelho, Elaine Cristina Cintra and Luisa Destri regarding the specialised critic of this 20th century poet's work.