The Hour and Turn of João Guimarães Rosa: Symbolic Discourse and Death in the Academia Brasileira de Letras
2007; University of California, Los Angeles; Volume: 36; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5070/m3361014662
ISSN0160-2764
Autores Tópico(s)Linguistics and Education Research
ResumoA hora e a vez de Augusto Matraga"For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.Hebrews 9.16 João Guimarães Rosa's death-bis moment of "absolute singularity" (Derrida 22) -took place on the 19'*' of November 1967, On the Wô f that same montb, Guimarães Rosa íinally accepted bis chair at the Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL), delivering a speech entitled "O verbo &: o logos."Tbis speecb (presumably the autbor's last "literary" work) would be the first of three commemorative speecbes to take place over the course of the next four days.The second address, by Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco, was delivered immediately foUowing Guimarães Rosa's speech.In bis address, Afonso Arinos ceremoni- ously welcomed Guimarães Rosa into the Academy.Yet, less tban seventy-two hours later, Rosa unexpectedly died of a beart attack in bis apartment in Rio de Janeiro.As a result, only four days after tbe autbor's induction, a third speecb would take place.On tbe lO^*" of November, Austregésilo de
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