O vôo fênix no canto do cisne : reflexões sobre a vida e a morte no conto

Sara Alice Costa Cavalcanti

From the entitled story Viver, of Machado de Assis, published in Gazeta de Noticias, in 1886 and utterly as part of the so named collection Várias histórias, gathered as a book in 1896, philosophical and literary considerations are weaved on the tedium vitae feeling in a imaginary instant in which both time and, consequently, life will finally get to an end. In the story which gives the subject to this dissertation, the author writes as a dialogue the legend of the errant Jew and the titan Prometeu and suggests the reflection on the History of Civilization seen teleologically and the exhaustiveness of man who observes the sequence of ruins and dreaming projects opposed to each other. The peculiarity of the narration made the introductory commentators to the critical edition to Várias histórias, from which are extracted the quotes to which we will be mentioning on the present work, to affirm that amongst the sixteen stories from(our) book, four are clearly philosophical ones; [[ Um apólogo, a Gnostic disquisition of Adão e Eva, the touching criticism of the chiliastic chimeras in Viver and, finally, O Cônego ou metafisica do estilo.(ASSIS:1975). The unique circumstance to which the author leads us, in a situation of extreme temporal-space, allow us to adventure considerations of philosophical and rhetorical order and (who knows?) to make inherit questions concerning the gathering of the various cultural traditions, reinscribed and interacting in the composition of the literary plot. A exceptionality of these few lines, hidden and almost forgotten inside the universe of Machado, organized in the format of a Greek dialogue, evoking terminologies and a line of thinking that the usual reader of the famous story teller will easily recognize, perhaps explain the reason of this dissertation. Here is what Machado offers usa plot full of intra and extra-textual relations with the power to attract anyone who stops out before the work of the author of Quincas Borba not only for entertainment. To better conduct the exam of the story focused in this work, three main vein of thinking were privileged: the mythological reinsert, the rhetoric and the philosophy. The referred subjects are duly distributed in chapters which make up the structure of this dissertation as above explained. In the first chapter, Delírios de fogo e de vida!, the resource of the thematic reinsert is dealt, once the in extremis daydreams of the main personage are allowed due to what the author brings to the legend of the errant Jew, to the myth of Prometeus, to the narrations that surround the ancient city of Tebas, evoking a mythological nomad condition that carries, uses the luggage that each quote evokes and inscribes such narrative in a new literal universe. The praxis of persuasion in the rhetoric used by the titan is the subject of the second chapter whose title is : Da cama ao berço, um devaneio in extremis. It deals with daydreams occurred in the gap between meditation and the dream, in the expectation that the incorruptible cloak would concede to the man a glorious future. As we will have occasion to demonstrate, the message, which calls itself divine because scientific and vice-versa, is constructed rhetorically with the aim to light in the man, exhausted by his arduous path, the fire of gods. O Diálogo dos Titãs- that took place in some place between the little village of Roeken and Morro do Livramento, expression that gives titleto the third chapter, defines the expectation to the existing approach between the sayings of Nietzche and ones of the Brazilian writer before the human superlative that they saw been built in a world where the scientifiticist propaganda is painted in gold in an epitaph and where, perhaps, one might

O vôo fênix no canto do cisne : reflexões sobre a vida e a morte no conto "Viver!", de Machado de Assis / The Fly of the Fênix in the sing of the swan: reflexions about the life and the death in the story "Viver !", of Machado de Assis

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