ENTANGLEMENTS BETWEEN LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY:

NOVELS AS LIVING IDEAS

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https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v14i2.67872

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Literature, Philosophy, Novels, Merleau-Ponty

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the entanglements between literature and philosophy, from the philosophical reflections of Merleau-Ponty. We propose to consider novels as living ideas that throw us into a horizon in which living is an existential drama, which requires us the movement to take on our own life and create forms for it. These considerations were made through an analysis of the work Vidas Secas (Dry Lives) by Graciliano Ramos. The focus was not to produce a literary criticism, but to cling to the ways the characters affect us and develop written expressions that communicate the reader’s creative gestures. Novels are present to me as a transforming force that reveals a certain style of being. Thus, novels are not a collection of abstract ideas, but inter-human events as a knot of living meanings.

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FREUD, Sigmund. Mal-estar na civilização. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2010.

MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice. Le romain et la métaphysique. In: MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice. Sens et non-sens. Paris: Nagel, 1966.

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RAMOS, Graciliano. Vidas secas. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 2018.

ROCHA, Zeferino. Esperança não é esperar, é caminhar Reflexões filosóficas sobre a esperança e suas ressonâncias na teoria e clínica psicanalíticas. Revista Latino Americana de Psicopatologia Fundamental. ano X, n. 2, jun., 2007.

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Published

2023-08-31

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2023): Dossiê especial – Estética e Existência: Filosofia e Arte

Section

Dossiê especial – ESTÉTICA E EXISTÊNCIA: FILOSOFIA E ARTE

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