Um trançado de teias: a poética de Hilda Hilst

Abstract

This work aims to understand the poetry of Hilda Hilst in its character of unfinished process, surging towards what is always becoming. In this sense, we study the language that traces itself as the lines of an unconcluded drawing, outline of what may come to be, that is nourished by biblical texts, songs and medieval bestiaries, to give new life to the tradition, not only as homage and reverence, but also as rupture and transgression. Thus, a hybrid poetics that runs through time appears, dissolves the dichotomies and realizes a literary genres implosion. To illustrate this movement, we rely on Walter Benjamin's language theories, because of the philosopher s understanding of the name assembly, which integrity has been lost through time referentiality, as a concept of displacement and transit between the signifier and the signified. We consider poetry as the place where, in a magical-mimetic dimension, language mounts and dismounts itself, narcissistic and cyclic, not depending on an instrumental relationship of meanings, but as a constant process of change and reinterpretation of itself. The analysis axis follows two main themes: death and desire, around which the aspects of love, sex, time, old age, madness unfold themselves as twisted knots in the deconstruction course of the notion of an unified essential subject