Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: AYRTON SENNA ALVES DA SILVA

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STUDENT : AYRTON SENNA ALVES DA SILVA
DATE: 14/11/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Auditório E - CCHLA
TITLE:

The absent enigma: a reading of the rupture with God in the poetry of Antônio Pinto de Medeiros

KEY WORDS:

Keywords: Antônio Pinto de Medeiros; Brazilian religious poetry, Atheism, Mysticism; Generation of 45.

PAGES: 60
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Letras
SUMMARY:

Antônio Pinto de Medeiros, although born in Amazonas, was a poet, editor, and literary critic who developed his intellectual activities in Rio Grande do Norte. His life was as enigmatic as his poetry, and he published only two works, namely Um poeta à toa (1949) and Rio do vento (1951), which occupy a unique place in Brazilian poetic production of the period, which at that time was organized within the narrowly defined concept of the Generation of 45. However, Medeiros's work also presents a relationship with the poetry of the 1930s, especially the works of Jorge de Lima and Murilo Mendes, but differs radically from them by constituting a poetics in rupture with God, the guiding theme of our research. Starting from a dialogue between literature and theology, but using the theoretical framework of literature and, above all, poetry as the main guiding principle of our analyses, our dissertation is divided into four chapters. In the first chapter, based on Comte-Sponville's (2007) concept of atheism, we will analyze how this rupture is worked out in the poems. In the second chapter, our attention will turn to the enigmatic Medièrean cycle, from which we will seek to undertake a reading that relates it to the presence of mystery as an element of Christian mythology. We will also situate it, based on authors such as Cirlot (2012), Losso (2007, 2020, 2022), and Melo Neto (1998), in relation to the delirious and visionary tradition of modern Western poetry. In the third chapter, in dialogue with Eliade (1992) and Otto (2024), our reading will focus on the profanation of the symbols and rites of Catholic Christianity. Although the rupture with God is the tone of this poetry, it is interesting to note that the poet has an empathetic view of social marginalized people and, in particular, women, an aspect that, based on Comte-Sponville (2007), Eliade (1992) and Frye and Macpherson (2023), we will discuss in our last chapter.

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