Cicatrizes de leitura: um aparte do peso do conhecimento em Fausto de Fernando Pessoa

Abstract

The present thesis proposes to comprehend how the idea of burden of knowledge is presented in Fernando Pessoa s Faust. The expression burden of knowledge by philosopher Stanley Cavell arises as a way of presenting tragedy in modernity. Fernando Pessoa s Faust, due to the fall inside his mind, narrates, during his encounter with death, the most emblematic figure of all possible knowledge, a tragic affectation that has consumed him. The present work, therefore, launches the perspective that aims to explore, as a mean of understanding Pessoa s literary work, the idea that modern tragedy is the burden of knowledge. Also, at the same time, it sustains the hypothesis that the burden of knowledge presumes the recognition that the knower s life ends up in some sort of Shakespeare s tragedy. Thus, Fernando Pessoa s work borrows a long tradition that has begun with Hamlet and with it, based on the question of the burden of knowledge, he outlines the theatricality found in Faust s verses, which presentation of the dilemma between Life and Knowledge presumes the immediate scene of a figure, Faust (or Hamlet)