O estilo híbrido em invenção de Orfeu, de Jorge de Lima

Abstract

Jorge de Lima, throughout his literary journey, left behind great works that today are returning to space within an environment of dozens of other works by different authors within Modernism. In the case of this work more specifically, attention is directed to the invention of Orpheus (1952), which is configured as a work that still lacks a greater amount of critical observation, mainly because it addresses these Brazilian problems. The investigation began with the principle that in this work a hybrid style is observed, which is developed especially in two orientations: in the first, we deal with the mixture of the epic and the lyrical, since it is possible to verify in Orpheus' invention a subversion of the epic and lyrical genres, because such limits are constantly strained in the poetic creation of the work; In the second, we observe the intersection of historical discourse with literary discourse, because by proposing to recover events and historical figures in the country, the poet poetically reconstructs the narratives of the founding of Brazil. For this, the poem 31 of Canto I of the aforementioned work was analyzed more carefully, which allows us to perceive in an exemplary way the mixture of the lyrical and epic genres, as well as the intersections of literature with history, as well as the aesthetic procedures used by the author that brings the work to a high and very effective diction. The main objective of the work, then, was to discuss the aesthetic prejudices found in this rereading of the country's history in this work, considering that Jorge de Lima is considered one of the modernist authors who experimented most with poetic forms and dictates, traditional as those of his generation. As theoretical references, this work used texts that discuss the intersection between history and literature, such as Hayden White (1992; 1994), Paul Ricoeur (1997), Acízelo (1999), as well as texts that discuss how Brazilian modernist literature rewritten The narratives of Brazilian colonization, such as Oliveira (2001) and Cándido (1999).