Guimarães Rosa e os bichos:uma leitura da poética do animal em Manuelzão e Miguilim

Abstract

This work proposes to investigate the presence of animality in the novels of the book Manuelzão e Miguilim, one of the works that composes Corpo de Baile, written by João Guimarães Rosa, a Brazilian author from Minas Gerais. Considering that this writer was a "animal collector" in his literary production - as for example in the work Ave, Palavra, which brings some writings that take place in the zoo universe, portraying some animals inserted in an environment which limits their way of life: the zoo – we search the two novels, “Campo Geral” and “Uma estória de amor (Festa de Manuelzão)”, in order to analyze the animality in these productions, and how the writer projects these living beings in the “sertanejo” (countryside) space. To achieve the proposed objective, we carried out bibliographic readings on the subject, bringing scholars and critics of the area, such as Peter Singer (1975), John Berger (2003), Jacques Derrida (2002), Maria Esther Maciel (2016), among others, which were of paramount importance for the construction of our research. In addition, we did detailed readings of the two novels, cataloging the animals present in the narratives, in order to present a survey of the animals, which is available in the third chapter of this work. We hope that this research can contribute with reflections about animality and the relationships between human and non-human animals with nature, in the literature of Guimarães Rosa.