Antropoceno literário

A poética da destruição de Milton Hatoum

Abstract

One of Milton Hatoum's stylistic traits is the shattering of memories evoked by returning to the past. Thus, I select as an object of analysis the author's first publication, his participation in Amazonas - Palavras e Imagens de um Rio Entre Ruínas (1979). The aspect of literary production serves as an instrument to think about destruction as a factor of perceived changes in the aesthetic environment. For this, reflecting on the ruins of a North in the process of modification requires revisiting the texts of Walter Benjamin (1928; 1984), Susana Scramim (2000; 2010) and Sonia Torres (2017; 2020). Through the delimitation of the guiding points, I perceive, in advance, that Hatoum's poetry dates back to catastrophes made possible by human intervention as the fulcrum of his poetry, giving new tones to the spaces marked, then, by the chaos that originates the trauma and delimits a crumbling environment, triggering the concept of the so-called literary Anthropocene. Therefore, the study in experimental phase, perceives the Amazon as one of the targets of the transformations poetized by the author.