Escritas de ouvido na literatura brasileira

Abstract

If we listen closely, we can hear the pulse of an auditory writing at work in several authors at the heart of Brazilian literature. The aim of this text is to develop the concept of “Writing by Ear”, and the form it takes in fictional prose, especially in novels. Machado de Assis, Clarice Lispector, and Guimarães Rosa are the central authors of this research also applicable to other key authors of prose fiction, including Oswald de Andrade, Mário de Andrade, and Graciliano Ramos. This text thinks the ear as a third term beyond the dyad speech and writing, the novel, as a space of listening, and authorship, as a place of reception more than a place of production. It hopes to contribute to a poetics of resonance and an aural history of literature written in Portuguese with multilingual accents.