Das reflexões de um ensaio literário ao espelho da crítica

Abstract

This text comprehends not only conceptual/reflective but also expressive/literary considerations, facing works from different fields. The philosophical field - in which the main foundation is the conceptual rationality - and the artistic field in which the expressive mimetic aspects gain relevance. This interweaving seeks to reveal counterpoints between the literary tale O Espelho, by Guimarães Rosa and the philosophical reflections raised in Theodor Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory and Negative Dialectic. These works, in their different fields and with their different formalizations, put contradictory forces in tension. On the one hand, the persistent effort of the concept which, even though aware of its failure and the impossibility of reaching its own pretensions, seeks to say something unspeakable, exploring its limits towards its opposite, the non-conceptual in the conceptualized object. On the other side of the mirror, as a negative of the movement of the concept, Rosa’s narrative explores the expressive aspects of the word in order to reveal in the object details opaque to conceptual knowledge. In the specific case, a short story that seeks to mirror both a philosophical essay and an empirical experiment, placing the image itself in the mirror as an object of analysis.