Nos limites do conhecimento, nos limites da forma: uma leitura de sonetos de Rilke e Hermann Broch

Abstract

Several German-speaking writers reflected on epistemological issues, and understood literature as a particular form of knowledge, capable of advancing into areas that are either inaccessible or complementary to scientific research. At the beginning of the 20th century, Rainer Maria Rilke and Hermann Broch produced sonnets - among other forms - to pursue this inquiry. In Rilke’s work, this interest is found in sonnets both from New Poems and Sonnets to Orpheus. In Broch’s, this concern can be seen in some sonnets from an early and less known phase of his writings, which prepares for the broad epistemological reflection of his novel.