Open AccessAVALOVARA: UMA COSMOGONIA LITERÁRIA
Author(s) -
Leny da Silva Gomes
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
organon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2238-8915
pISSN - 0102-6267
DOI - 10.22456/2238-8915.29742
Subject(s) - mythology , square (algebra) , palindrome , spiral (railway) , computer science , linguistics , art , literature , engineering , mathematics , philosophy , geometry , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , crispr , gene
This essay presents Osman Lins’ novel, Avalovara. The complex structureof this work is here highlighted, related to the Pitagoras’ geometric and mathematicalforms, the symbolic language associated with the hermetical, intertextualreferences and myths, the palindrome, the spiral and the square, that compose, amongother elements, this intense story of love and knowledge.