A NOSTALGIA DA FORMA POÉTICA DO ROMANCE: ALEGORIZAÇÃO BARROCA E TRADIÇÃO RETÓRICA N’O ATENEU DE RAUL POMPÉIA
Literary Theory; Brazilian Literature; Raul Pompéia’s “O Ateneu”; Baroque and modernity; Poetic Prose; Criticism and interpretation; Essay.
The actual study proposes Raul Pompéia’s O Ateneu (1888) among the most significant works in Brazilian Literature panorama, according to the perspective of verbal materiality of the Romanesque genre under a form nostalgia sign that, in its turn, ascends to the archaic origin poetry of fable. Along with large rereading of pertinent bibliography, it is gone here toward narrator Sergio’s “crônica de saudades” on pursuit of showing it, firstly, as poetic language allegory updated in the novel technique; secondly, as radical metalanguage that still renders problematic several aspects of modern fictional prose.