A anatomia do absurdo em "Corpo de Festim", de Alexandre Guarnieri

Abstract

This dissertation investigates the manifestations of the absurd in contemporary poetry, focusing on Corpo de Festim (2016), by Alexandre Guarnieri, understanding his poetics of the body as the materialization of the absurd and existential despair. The study is grounded in the philosophical reflections of Kierkegaard (1979; 2017) and Camus (2019.a; 2019b) to comprehend the foundations of the absurd, also drawing on Freud (2021), Otto Rank (1971), and Clément Rosset (2008) to discuss the uncanny and the double, and on Martin Esslin (2018) to address the Theatre of the Absurd. In addition, it articulates elements of pessimism and nihilism based on Schopenhauer (2005), Nietzsche (2011; 2021), and Cioran (2010; 2011), exploring the absurd as a dynamic aesthetic phenomenon. The first chapter investigates its philosophical and existential foundations; the second analyzes Guarnieri’s work in dialogue with concrete and Mallarmean poetry; and the third examines how his poems mobilize the absurd in both form and content. The research demonstrates that the absurd, beyond being a theme, constitutes a method and aesthetic strategy for the poet, reaffirming its relevance in contemporary poetry.