Becomings and fabulation of poetic writing in 'O perfeito cozinheiro das almas deste mundo'

Abstract

The study presents some considerations about O perfeito cozinheiro das almas deste mundo (Oswald de Andrade). The moment of collective writing of the diary comprised the period from 1918 to 1919, a documentation of creation in action, a continuous process of exchanging messages about the most varied and unusual subjects written in an irreverent and uncompromising way. This modality announces a writing of becoming, since it is non-representative, expands its limits and is situated on the threshold between prose and poetry. This singular feature of the work reveals a potentially inventive writing that experiments with paths; therefore, an unfinished writing or even an unwritten one that places the literary beside the formless, the unfinished. The rereading of the diary allows us, through genetic criticism, to put it into action again and apprehend, from archaeological traces and the inventive matrix precursor of the poetics of Modernism, the becoming of writing in an act of fabulation.