A encenação tediosa do imortal pecado Baudelaire e o mito da queda: Baudelaire e o mito da queda

Abstract

The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the dialogue that Baudelaire established both in his critical work and in his poetical texts, with the Judeo-Christian myth of the Fall. Based upon the theoretical discussion undertaken by the poet himself about the myth in general and about the dogma of original sin, in particular, we intend to show, in light of Paul Ricoeurs phenomenological hermeneutic, that this dialogue soon exceeds the limits of the philosophical speculation to attain, especially in the book The Flowers of Evil, the size of the symbols irreducible to the conceptual discourse. Rather than highlight the presence of mythemes extracted from the biblical narrative in the work of the poet, we seek to demonstrate, in these pages, a number of similarities between theexistential meaning of Adams myth and the poetical experience embodied in the works of Baudelaire.