“Mas tu dizes palavras sem sentido / e esqueces-te de mim”: the limits of the tragic subjectivity and the failed alterity in Fernando Pessoa’s Fausto

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i32.126003

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Fernando Pessoa, Faust, drama, tragedy, subjectivity, otherness

Abstract

This paper aims to present traces of limit-dialectics "I-Thou" in the relationship between Fausto and Maria into the Fernando Pessoa’s drama. Whereas in the J. W. Goethe's Faust the love appears as one of the redemptive elements of the German tragic hero, in the work of Fernando Pessoa it may be comprehended as unattainable element, and therefore trigger the aggravation of existential crisis of the Portuguese Faust. The potency subjectivity in Pessoa’s antihero is intensified insofar as its otherness capacity empties into the loving failure.

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  • Rodrigo Alexandre Xavier, UTFPR - Campus Pato Branco
    Professor do Departamento de Letras e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da UTFPR. É investigador na área de Estudos Literários com ênfase nas Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa.

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Published

2017-12-21

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Vol. 18 No. 2 (2017): A poesia no limite ou os (des)limites da poesia

Section

Dossiê 32: A Poesia no Limite

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XAVIER, Rodrigo Alexandre. “Mas tu dizes palavras sem sentido / e esqueces-te de mim”: the limits of the tragic subjectivity and the failed alterity in Fernando Pessoa’s Fausto. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 18, n. 2, p. 335–353, 2017. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i32.126003. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/126003.. Acesso em: 10 jun. 2024.