Open AccessINVENÇÃO DE ORFEU: UMA EPOPÉIA MODERNA?
Author(s) -
Eduardo Sterzi
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
organon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2238-8915
pISSN - 0102-6267
DOI - 10.22456/2238-8915.29752
Subject(s) - epic , poetry , modernization theory , humanities , philosophy , art , literature , political science , law
Jorge de Lima’s masterpiece, Invenção de Orfeu, was misunderstoodand misjudged by some readers as Mário Faustino - who, notwithstanding, thoughtof Jorge de Lima as “the greatest name in our poetry” - and Augusto and Haroldo deCampos. The problems of the work, as signalized by Faustino and the Campos, couldbe summarized in two topics: absence of unity (orstructure) and indefinition of genre. These reproaches, however, seem to forget poet’sexplicit intention to proceed the “modernization of epic”.