Invadir as ruas, habitar o cotidiano: a poética de Alberto Pucheu

Abstract

This doctoral thesis deals with the production of the poet, professor and artist-thinker Alberto Pucheu. Presenting himself in the Brazilian literary panorama in the 1990s, Pucheu publishes his first book Na cidade aberta, in 1993, and currently culminates with É chegado o tempo de voltar à superfície, recently released in 2022. Professor of Literary Theory At the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), his writing is characterized by the implosion of the traditional concept of poetry, especially when his poetic texts open up to an intense contamination with the imposing reality and the dirt of the world, without avoiding approaching the sociopolitical problems of today. Furthermore, his poems are permeated by an infiltration of lives whose motricity intensifies modes of existence. This study focuses, above all, on works from 2013 to 2022, namely: mais cotidiano que o cotidiano (2013), Para que poetas em tempos de terrorismos? (2017), vidas rasteiras (2020) and É chegado o tempo de voltar à superfície (2022). Based on the modes of action of Pucheutean poetry – political, aesthetic and ethical – I raise the following questions: in what way does poetry today, in the midst of the whirlwind of the events of our time, not avoid being contaminated with such reality? If poetic texts provide experiments with the contemporary, how does this encounter occur? Through which movements does Pucheu's poetry come to terms with contemporary impasses? Thus, through the provocations of the concept of “contemporary”, by Agamben (2009) and Pucheu (2014a), I analyze how Pucheutean poetry reconfigures the sensible, establishing other possibilities of existence and the invention of a possible Brazil. When making himself available to others, the poet never tires of “leaving himself” (Collot, 2004), which makes the poem a space for a refuge, a trench, a place of hospitality, a space for the passage of intensities. If we are amazed by the everyday surface, we are also amazed by the literary text, both for allowing us to reflect and for inventing the space of the other, our condition of dehumanization, the ways of questioning what has already been established, of producing good encounters beyond of the pettiness of the world.