Hibridismo, crítica e ironia: um estudo dos poemas em prosa de Pedro Kilkerry

Abstract

Having as corpus of study four texts from the baiano poet Pedro Kilkerry (1885-1917) usually taken as examples of poetic prose, the main objective of this research is to analyze these texts in the light of the literary genre developed and broadcasted by Baudelaire: the poem in prose, hybrid genre that enlaces characteristics from poetry and prose. As a dialogic genre, the poem in prose tends to apart from the unitary and traditional language of the lyrical genre, considered as monologic in the theory of Bakhtin. To conduct these reflections, the following proposals were developed: the poems in prose of Kilkerry manifest both the presence of the modernist tradition of Baudelaire, in which unite criticism and irony, as the more hermetic and symbolical of Mallarmé and Rimbaud; the poems in prose of Kilkerry, in comparison with the author s work in verse, represent a literary field favorable for both the development of the ironic-criticism as the inscription of a new poetical language, protagonist's own speech. The bases for the work are the reflections over the prose and poetry elaborated by Mikhail Bakhtin, Gaston Bachelard, Octavio Paz and Edgar Morin, besides the concepts on the prose poem formulated by Suzanne Bernard and María Torremocha. Starting with the correlation between the theoretical fundaments and the analysis of the composition of the four poems in prose of Kilkerry, it is demonstrated how, inside them, the presence of the esthetic modern-symbolist takes place, outlining the articulations between the lyrical and the prosaic, outlining the critical-ironical aspect of the texts