Macunaíma de Andrade, by Arlindo Daibert: from Modernist Anthropophagy to Açougue Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Ermelinda Maria Araújo
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Universitários (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/index.php/estudosuniversitarios/article/view/254876
• topic: Arlindo Daibert; Anthropophagy; Misreading; Macunaíma de Andrade; Açougue Brasil; Arlindo Daibert; Antropofagia; desleitura; Macunaíma de Andrade; açougue Brasil

In The Anxiety of Influence, Harold Bloom (1991) states that “strong poets read only themselves”. This means that, indelibly confined within their own horizons of expectations, they are doomed to continually read their own work, dispersed in an incredible multiplicity of books and references. This conception reaffirms the importance of reading, showing how it is possible for one to find in others the promises which oneself may come to fulfill. Hence from this conception comes, probably, the roots of the dedication written by Jorge Luis Borges (1998, p. 13) to his readers: “If the pages of this book allow any happy verse, the reader shall forgive me for the discourtesy of having previously usurped it. It is trivial and fortuitous that you are the reader of these exercises and that I am their redactor”. This article intends to comment on the anthropophagic and  intersemiotic paths of the plastic artist from Juiz de Fora Arlindo Daibert (1952-1993), through a brief analysis of three moments of his artistic clash with important literary precursors: Lewis Carroll, Mário de Andrade and Guimarães Rosa, commenting on the stages of misreading necessary for the making of the hybrid and essayistic work he composed in twenty years of constant and committed reflection on Brazil