THE GROPING ESSAY OF SAMUEL RAWET

Samuel Rawet has intended, by his essays, to bring questions about somepreocupations – and its ethical consequences, principally, according to my point of view on thispaper– which is imbricated to his fictional works. On his essays, as a matter of fact, the authorproposes questions and searchs for possible answers, despite these answers seem to be temporariesand anguishing answers to some concerns the author brings us as well as on his fictional works; or,we should say, mainly fictional, as in Rawet’ works the genre (form) we use to call a essay isdeeply influenced by the genre chronics. Thus, his essays are parallels to the short stories andnovels, in terms of development of latent questions which are commom to all his writings, toward apersonal and special perception of the world that reminds, inside out, Martin Buber’s philosophy.Regarding to this, we may say that his essay and fiction are complementary to each other – in spiteof being also independent to each other. These questions and its relation to the ethical concernsexpressed all over Rawet’s literature lead to important questions regarding the studies of his oeuvreas meaningful part of jewish-brazilian literature.