A crítica literária de Vilém Flusser: por uma literatura (de)morada

• Autor(a) principal: Campos, Eliane Maria Diniz
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/16565
• topic: Literature; Literary criticism; Literatur; Literaturkritik; Literatura; Crítica literária; Vilém Flusser; Flusser, Vilém, 1920-1991 - Crítica e interpretação; Literatura brasileira – História e crítica; Ensaios brasileiros; Estudos brasileiros; Rosa, João Guimarães, 1908-1967 – Crítica e interpretação; LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS

I intended, with this Ph.D. thesis, to present the literary facet of the self-taught, critic and philosopher: Vilém Flusser (1920-1991). In 1939, as an intellectual exiled from his homeland, the Czech Republic, this writer landed at the port of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After spending ten years away, involuntarily, from the academic environment, he resumed his production in 1950, publishing various critic texts, predominantly essays. Departing from this consideration, this work aimed at gathering Flusser’s essays written in Portuguese that, to some extent, were related to literary studies, either in the artistic sphere, or even in the cultural domain. This last choice was due to the fact that, since it has settled down in Brazil, the Cultural Studies area is part of the graduate programs in Letters courses. Through a chronological-biographical path, I analysed this intellectual’s journey, using as a basis the pre-selected essays. I observed from the individual, the reader, the foreigner, the self-taught, the writer to, finally, the work and writing style. Meanwhile, it is important to highlight that most of the essays that helped to shape the biographical outline are about writers, such as Franz Kafka (Czech-German/Universal Literature) - essential figure in Flusser’s formation, because he is a fellow countryman and Jew just like Flusser - in addition to essays, on what is now called Cultural Studies, in which Flusser’s thinking on the complex theme of culture is revealed. After the biographic contextualization, in the proper sense of the term, life writing, that is, the life of the critic traced by his own writing, I started analysing some specific essays of literature criticism. I narrow down, for analysis purposes, Flusser’s essays about the writer João Guimarães Rosa’s work (Brazilian/Universal Literature) who was one the Brazilian writers that Flusser wrote the most articles about for the Suplemento Literário of the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo (OESP). The results of this research are materialized in a better understanding of Vilém Flusser’s work under the prism of literary criticism and in the collection of texts for a special publication, addressing Flusser and his relationship with literature