Abstract

RESUMONeste artigo aproximamos a infância, o espaço e o tempo através da literatura e da filosofia. Partimos da leitura que Bakhtin faz das obras de François Rabelais, no contexto do realismos grotesco, e do conceito de cronotopo aí formulado. Bakhtin constrói uma perspectiva filosófica de espaço-tempo aberto e coletivo, de liberdade e criação. A literatura de Manoel de Barros, por sua vez, materializa um cronotopo, afirmando uma visão de mundo e de homem no embate entre sentidos e valores. Chegamos ao entendimento de que os poemas de Barros possuem uma estética particular que se aproxima daquela analisada por Bakhtin. É regida por uma relação espaço-temporal que trabalha com a infância associada à criação, envolvendo o espaço-tempo do inútil e da contemplação, o rebaixamento do olhar, o renascimento e a produção de vizinhanças entre elementos heterogêneos.

Highlights

  • The Bakhtinian ChronotopeWatching Every afternoon during school vacation, I watched the slug in the yard. The same slug

  • This article addresses childhood, time and space through literature and philosophy

  • If children are defined by their chronological age and the passage of time, childhood is defined by its poetry and limitless creative capacity

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Summary

The Bakhtinian Chronotope

Watching Every afternoon during school vacation, I watched the slug in the yard. The same slug. It is this style that determines the relationship to the given material (words), whose nature we must know, in order to be able to understand that relationship Based on this understanding of aesthetics and style, Bakhtin’s position is that the crude language used by Rabelais in his work is the writer’s way of expressing the meanings and values at play in his literature, combined with a view of man and the world that is permeated by the historic and cultural context. The scenes of bodily and material life such as drinking, eating, copulating or giving birth (terms used in Rabelais’s work) gain new meaning and imagery in literature, recalling the principles of overabundance and fertility These are components of the aesthetics of Rabelaisian grotesque realism impregnated by the carnival environment. Thrives on disproportion, deliberate distortion, and rejection of the sense of proportion

A Chronotope in the Literature of Manoel de Barros
Approaches to Chronotope and Childhood
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