E a carne se faz verbo em Ferreira Gullar: memória, engajamento e resistência em prosa e verso

Abstract

This paper proposes a dialogue between Ferreira Gullar’s chronicle and poetry. To do so, the chronicles published by Folha de São Paulo between 2012 and 2014 and the books Dentro da noite veloz (1975) and Poema sujo (1976) were taken as objects of research. From a discussion of the concept of engagement, at a first stage, we focus on the poet’s political involvement, in prose and poetry, creating a counterpoint between the poet’s current political perspective and his political and poetic position in the 1960’s and 1970’s, characterized by militancy and resistance, which can be observed in Dentro da noite veloz (1975). At a second stage, besides the chronicles, we take Poema sujo (1976), in which we observe that it is possible to have one’s own rescue of the past through different discursive perspectives and different moments in history. Hence, it is observed that, in prose and poetry, not only can the poet bring out his own past, through memory, but he can also turn his lived life into an instrument of political intervention and representation of a whole collectivity. The dialogue between Ferreira Gullar’s poetry and chronicle is, therefore, not only possible, but also fruitful and a new possibility of research in the literary field.