BODY AND VISUALITY OF CONCHITA IN LA FEMME ET LE PANTIN

This paper aims to discuss the construction of the image of Conchita character within the novel La femme et le Pantin, written by Pierre Louÿs in 1898, along with reference works and translations of literature, painting and film. Work genre romance unconfessable presents relational features the seduction and the making of the feminine about the subversion of the ideals of womanhood in the fin-de-sciècle, using the idiosyncrasy of the physical body and the Spanish character, before the traditional values of the time, and how about overcoming the idea of courtly love. This process meant that these elements interact continuously among themselves, establishing itself as a new perspective to the construction of the female character in his fiction. Thus, this discussion takes place on different aspects of development, from the direct reading of the authors and the novel as a basis, considering the character alive as a result of the relationship between memory, culture and time.

THE ARTIFICIAL PARADISES OF DES ESSEINTES, A DECADENT ESTHETE

In the late nineteenth century, the discoveries of the unconscious universe and the fondness for mysterious dimensions of existence have influenced a group of young artists to probe world mysteries through the incantatory power of words. From the opposition to scientific Realism and Naturalism, and also inspired by the revolutionary poetry of Charles Baudelaire, thus arose Decadentism. The novel À Rebours, by the French novelist and art critic Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907), is an important expression of that spirit. In that work, there is a fruitful dialogue between painting and literature, which inaugurates a new style opposing the already exhausted realistic model. Duke Des Esseintes, the eccentric protagonist of the novel, struggles to modernity and emerging bourgeoisie’s unrefined taste of emerging bourgeoisie. In his searching for a new literary model, Huysmans bet on environment descriptions and art transpositions. The painting served as an aesthetic paradigm for the novel construction, not limited only to the frequent descriptions of Moreau or Redon’s paintings, but also encompassing the way Huysmans described the furniture, tapestries, artificial flowers and fishes, book covers etc... Being outstanding was his idea, things beyond the reach for the common man, devoted to trivialities of everyday life. The transposition of art, or the creation of an artistic work by language, acquires immeasurable value to the critical Huysmans engrossing him in À Rebours. There, the critical superimpose the writer. The decadent style of Huysmans opposes the analytical reason. In his work, the art aims to retake the passion, the dream, the mystery, fear, death, totally disengaged of the desire to represent the reality.

RÔMULO QUIROGA IN THE GALLERY OF MODERN PAINTERS: CONJUNCTION BETWEEN POETRY AND PAINTING IN THE POETRY OF MANOEL DE BARROS

ABSTRACT: This article discusses the poetic creation in the poem “As lições de R. Q.” of the poet Manoel de Barros, and in the note that precedes it, identifying possibilities for interpretation of the poem in relation to the proposed questions, namely: the question of influence in the arts, the question of the interpenetration of technical and glances between poetry and painting, also addressing the issues of primitivism and colonialism.  KEYWORDS: Manoel de Barros. Poetry. Painting.