Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Celan: testimonies of the disaster

• Autor(a) principal: de Mello, Marcelo Reis
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Gragoatá
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/gragoata/article/view/38547
• topic: Writing; Disaster; Poetry; Testimony.; Escrita; Desastre; Poesia; Testemunho.

This paper presents the productivity of the notion of writing of the disaster - from the perspective of Maurice Blanchot (loss of the star) - for reading the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Celan. Initially, we demonstrate how Mallarmé radically differentiates a text that informs about everyday events at a speed that can’t be grasped (the newspaper), and a text that resists to take a closed form, proposing (itself to) the cadence of the look and reading, constellating the signs - disastrating them, causing the text itself to collide permanently. That is a text that presents itself as a disaster: poetry. Then, it starts from a text by Shoshana Felman to think about the testimonial dimension of Mallarmé and Celan's poetry, inseparable from the “breaking of a world”.