Writing Fever: Anticipation of the Death and Mutilation of the Sense
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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.27.1.91-108Keywords:
evil, sense, suicide, Ana Cristina César, Anne Sexton, Alejandra PizarnikAbstract
The aim of this essay is, starting from the speculations of Georges Bataille, to think the evil as a constitutive element of writing. Taking this evil from a double point of view as a kind of anticipation of death and a mutilation of meaning, this paper discusses the ideas of self-destruction and neutralization in the texts of three suicidal poets, Ana Cristina César, Anne Sexton and Alejandra Pizarnik. Indeed, it is proposed that something like the excess of poetic production is associated with the limit-experience of evil in the composition of the contrassense between body, writing and suicidal act, to reimagine a possible ethics of the poem.
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