Uma interpretação poético-ontológica da literatura e da morte – A articulação de ética, finitude e poesia

Abstract

Death is a  recurring  theme in many  writers’ poetics. Although an interpretation of the images and developments in various works could be profitable, it will not be be, our main focus here. Examining the relation between literature and world, we will establish a dialogue with a few works  by Maurice Blanchot, such as The Book to Come and The Work of Fire, together with  The Origin of the Work of Art,  by  Martin Heidegger. We will see how the common source of literature and world (nothingness, earth, being) opens a way to reintegrate man, word (language) and reality. Furthermore, we will discuss how  these ideas  t favor a liberated understanding towards ethics, destiny and death. At that point, we will go through some of  the basic issues of the movie Dogville,  by Lars von Trier, and the short stories “O imortal” and “Último capítulo”,  by Machado de Assis, making clear the creative dimension  of e human mortality: to be mortal is to be a destiny  that should be (ful)filled  by  the historical happenings of each life.