O acontecimento da narração oral de Guimarães Rosa: o Grupo Miguilim de Cordisburgo (MG)

Abstract

In this dissertation, the author presents the oral narrative of literature or poetic text that comes from writing as a living art, an event that shares with theater the same matrix structure. Starting from the Homeric bards, passing through the Greek rhapsodes, Roman storytellers and public readers, the Eurasian jon-gleurs and African griots in the Middle Ages, the author freely reflects on each of these different performances where oral poetry had its dwelling, working on the relations between orality and writing and seeking their interfaces with the event of oral narration of literature. The importance of this study in the field of Performing Arts is emphasized in that this artistic event is little known and hardly studied by professionals in the field. Guided by Florence Dupont's (1994) re-flections on the place occupied by the reader since antiquity, the author deline-ates the path that culminates with the invention of literature in the west and the new place that its reader will occupy, as co-author, filling the lines of the literary text with meaning. The dissertation covers contributions by Henri Meschonnic and Paul Valéry, among other authors, on the specificity of the literary text and its relations with orality. Finally, as an example of the event of narration of litera-ture, the author presents the experience of the Miguilim Group Project, which for 23 years has been training young people in Cordisburgo, Minas Gerais to narrate by heart excerpts of Rosa's work at the Casa Guimarães Rosa Museum and in outdoor events. If every word in the scene is corporal, according to Dubatti (2007), in the event of the narration of literature, the poetic conviviality is established primarily through speech actions. The training of the Miguilim narra-tors focuses on a sequence of varied readings aimed at memorization and the appropriation of the poetic text, so that each student is able to narrate it body and soul, by heart, heartedly. The literary text gives to the event of oral narration its traces, and the experience of the Miguilim Group is a living example of the democratization of the literature, taking the poetic word of Rosa around Brazil.