"SERTÃO" OF STONE AND FIRE: DRY POETHICS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF JOÃO DENYS DRAMATURGY
dramaturgy, imaginary, sertão, poetics, intertextuality.
This study aims to analyze two dramatic texts by João Denys Araújo Leite. This pieces are part of the “Seridó Trilogy”: A Pedra do Navio (1979) and Deus Danado (1993). It is observed that the author uses references related to the “aesthetics of drought”, a concept widely developed after the Regionalist Manifesto of Gilberto Freyre, in 1926. However, the referred dramatic texts do not strictly follow the aesthetic-political projects contained in previous works that deal with the same topic. Imbued with a memory and imaginary of the “sertanejo”, João Denys creates his “dry dramas” full of meanings and images linked to the place he was born. This study also analyzes how this playwright builds his dramaturgical work through intertextuality procedures. The thesis argues that João Denys Araújo Leite creates a “dry poetics” with his plays. A particular poetics that wishes to overcome the restricted meaning and imaginery of a Brazilian region and its people. It also develops and interprets the images raised from the “dry dramas” linked to two important elements: Stone and Fire. This analysis is made based on the writings of the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, as a possibility of unveiling the playwright's imaginary.
: dramaturgy, imaginary, sertão, poetics, intertextuality.