Escrita crítica, escrita criativa e leituras sobre (e com) o esporte: o corpo em movimento ressensualizando a razão

Abstract

The present thesis is developed from several analytical readings of writings from different authors in the last three centuries, inside which are discussed proposals for the metier of literary and arts review, made and experienced through inventiveness. Firstly, there is a fostered conception, already shared with authors of reference, which sees the criticism which appropriates its referential object and merges with it as more fruitful, creating a new structure endowed with the same status of the work approached and thus being understood at the threshold of the literature. The proposal that becomes the core of this research, however, is a critical and performative exercise with a poem about surfing, written by Brazilian poet Alberto Pucheu, from which a paradigm idea is sought for the connection between the critical and literary production today. Therefore, the aesthetic parameter of this thesis looks at the free and rigorous tone of the essay, as well as the appeal to the corporal experiences of sports modalities approached in correspondence with the artistic and literary experiences. This can be understood through the pairing of this experience with the multiple movements of the body, in the maintenance of health, as advocated by thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze. Subsequently, experimental and heterodox essays are produced in the light of the parameters established earlier, as they weave an approximate reading thread between the fragments of Friedrich Schlegel, part of Henry Miller's autobiographical work and the writings and performances of Roberto Corrêa dos Santos, each illustrating an attitude of the body as corresponding to the craft of writers, critics and artists they are. At the end, a link is created between the analyzed excerpts of each author, welded in a Nietzschean parable thought through the image of the Olympic weight lifters. This thesis may in some way contribute to the debate within the expanded field of contemporary literary studies.