The importance of travel: a correspondense between poets and caraíbas

Abstract

This work was prepared to interpret the long pilgrimages made by the Tupi-Guarani in order to establish a relationship with a notion of travel that is very dear to the poetic language, in fact, proper to the status of the poet, that is, of the one who launches into poetic making; as well as the ascetic and wandering image of the caraíba, while also designation to the poet. Thus, thinking about this correspondence between the indigenous ritual in search of a sacred territory to reflect on the poetic expedient itself, and how they both dialogue, when they understand, each in their own way, the importance of the journey, it’s trajectory and wandering, but also the figure of the prophet-poet, that is, one who is obstinately and religiously disposed, in the sense of the search for the sacred, in this investigation. To establish such correspondence, we will use Max Martins poetic trajectory, as he incorporated these aspects. Among the theorists who directed this work are Maurice Blanchot, Martin Heidegger, Benedito Nunes, Edmond Jabès, among others.