O processo criativo de Erico Verissimo: apontamentos em sua escrita memorialistica

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to present some considerations about the creative process from Erico Verissimo, something very significant in its production described as "writing itself", with special focus on his works - Solo Clarinet vol. I (1995) and Black Cat in Field of Snow (1996). This initiative is justified because, although not Verissimo, reportedly wanted to do his writing his memoirs and travel accounts a technical explanation about their modus operandi, making thus a part of his work metaliterature, it is impossible , through the reading of texts immanent previously mentioned, to unlink a purpose other. To emphasize this relationship, a dialogue is established between the chosen corpus and The Philosophy of Composition (1845) Edgar Allan Poe, Postscript to The Name of the Rose (1985) by Umberto Eco and the Manifesto of Surrealism (1924) by André Breton. To this end, it will develop a route that includes conjectures on the modulation of criticism Verissimo, where the author intervenes, often with a personal comment suggesting a particular direction for his writing and clarifying points, which he considered of great importance. In the meantime, your procedure will be shown artistic and intellectual, bringing to an overview of your literary constructions, having as a target point in the rationality and objectivity mimicked elements. In this sense, will be detailed, step by step, the processes by which the author wrote, demonstrating the production situation of the text, but, taking into account that the process of map creation is something imaginary, as imaginary as create, a process governed by a mysterious force impossible to analyze and explain satisfactorily.