Os sentidos do fogo: corpo e otredad em Salamandra, de Octavio Paz

Abstract

This thesis proposes a dialogue between poetry and philosophy, aiming at analyzing the book Salamandra by Octavio Paz, and also showing the construction of the body in relation to the otredad concept, which is evident in this author‘s critical works. From ―Noche en claro‖ poem, the dialogue between Paz and the surreal movement is initially highlighted, and other discussions are established, such as the relationship between the lyric ―I‖, time and the city body. Otredad is also considered in the perspective of an opposite conciliation taking into account the analogical relations between microcosms and macrocosms. Then, in this sense, the poems analysis point to the connection of the human body with nature. In the end, Salamandra poem is discussed concerning the multiplicity of bodies that pass by it, as well as proliferations of the animal sign unfolded from the Alchemy knowledges in the text. All these reading movements have the fire as a directing element, either in order to consider the body with its dual flame of love and eroticism, as Octavio Paz demonstrates in his works, or to nominate the ―devenir‖ according to Heraclito‘s thought, or even to open a fire poetics, considering Gaston Bachelard‘s term. Paz‘s poems and critical texts also arise the thought about the bodies‘ vitality and power, so it was necessary to approach works by Nietzche, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.