Duas águas, mil platôs: um encontro entre a poesia de João Cabral de Melo Neto e a filosofia de Gilles Deleuze

Abstract

Our thesis proposal is to bring João Cabral de Melo Neto's poetry closer to Gilles Deleuze's philosophy, establishing parallels between aesthetic concepts and figures, between poetic language and philosophical thought. The aim is to affirm the hypothesis that there is at least one significant affinity in the project of both thinkers, and that it justifies a comparative investigation: the conception of a thought from outside, based on impersonality, which opens up in an ethical and political horizon. Therefore, using a premise that the authors themselves followed in their works, the premise that thought, whether in the field of philosophy or poetry, works from meetings, we propose a meeting between João Cabral de Melo Neto and Gilles Deleuze. The intention is not to promote a “reading” of João Cabral based on deleuzian concepts; still less to attempt through literary examples an understanding of Deleuze's philosophy. The objective is to promote a dialogue between two thinkers – a philosopher and a poet – seeking resonances of one's work in the other's work so that connections are formed, and new ideas emerge. From the clash between Deleuze and João Cabral, we hope to extract a third element that can help both to think about philosophy and to write literature, and vice versa.