O NASCIMENTO E A MORTE DO MUNDO

O RÉQUIEM TRÁGICO DE DOIS IRMÃOS

Abstract

Following the interdisciplinary spirit proposed and defended by Eneida Maria de Souza as Comparative Literature’s very structure, we here propose a speculative-philosophic hermeneutic approach to Dois Irmãos (HATOUM, 2023), a novel whose lyrical form we try to understand through the poetically strategic formal function of Nael, the narrator. By dialoguing with important papers dedicated to Hatoum’s novel, such as those of Vidal Filho (2018) and Holanda (2020), we underline our approach’s specificity by making its center of interest what we call the World’s sclerosis, an expression with which we aim to capture Dois Irmãos’s tragic form. Developing such an hermeneutic insight, we unfold a conceptual figure which we call the originary phenomenological structure, by which World and consciousness constitute themselves reciprocally, as they are formalized in the third level of language. At last, we set our own thinking in dialogue with Heidegger’s reflections from Die Sprache (2018), in order to better understand how the three elements, World, consciousness and language are set together though Miltoun Hatoum’s novel, whose formal constitution we call a tragic-lyric one.