Na volúpia da luz: uma leitura acerca do erotismo em Pandora de Da Costa e Silva

Abstract

This research analyzes eroticism in Pandora by Da Costa e Silva, in order to understand the multiple dimensions of the erotic with the focus on woman figures in the lyrics of this poet from Piauí. The relationship between literature and eroticism allows us to investigate not only the erotic text as a style and way of making literature, but also the sociocultural context which we believe to be fundamental for understanding the erotic experience. Thus, it is requiring an interdisciplinary study between literature, eroticism and other areas of knowledge, such as philosophy, history and sociology. Initially, the research goal is to discuss the nature of eroticism based on the main theorists of the subject. After that, we aimed to study the erotic-loving manifestations present in the poetry of the literary movements of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Then, we established relationships with the values and ideals of the time, in addition to finding out how women figure in relation to the eroticism present in each literary movement of that period to finally offer an analysis about Da Costa e Silva text. This is a bibliographic descriptive-analytical research with a qualitative approach based on the vision of Georges Bataille (1987); Octavio Paz (1994, 1982); Affonso R. Sant'Anna (1993); Jesus Antonio Durigan (1985), Lúcia Castelo Branco (1985, 2004), among others. Thus, research shows us that erotic poetry in Pandora presents an insubordinate lyrical self whose ferocity of erotic desire is perceived through the description of mythological figures representing virility and phallocentric power, such as Pan, fauns and satyrs, persecutors and devourers of sensual nymphs, who dramatize the way women appear in Da Costa e Silva's erotic poetry and they are therefore the target of male erotic desire. In addition to these women-nymphs, the characteristics of Venus/Aphrodite, mermaids, sphinxes and virgin Marys appear polysetically, in the same woman, thus pointing to an aspect that reflects the desire and interdiction present in end-of-century society, and especially in Parnassian poetry. Beacuse of this polysemic woman, the lyrical self ambiguously manifests voluptuousness and chastity, as well as desire and fear.