Paisagem e perambulação urbana: Samuel Rawet em diálogo com as artes visuais

Abstract

The literary work of Samuel Rawet (1929-1984), a Jewish-Polish writer who immigrated in his childhood to the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, has become the source of many theoretical studies nowadays. Most of these studies focus on the Judaism issue and on its various representations in Rawet's work. However, what his novels and tales show is a singular and intensive writing that exceeds the Judaism issue and which tries to register the singularities of urban space into his prose, turning this space into landscape. In this sense, the present thesis analyses, in the first part, the perception and configuration of urban landscapes in the Jewish-Polish writer's work. The second part is concerned with the labyrinth theme, as well as with the study of the convergences, dialogues and intersections of Samuel Rawet's writing with cinema, specifically with the films 'Stalker' (1974) by the Russian film-maker Andrei Tarkovski and 'Lost Book Found' (1994) by the american Jem Cohen. Finally, we will consider Georges Perec's book, 'Un homme qui dort '(1967), in which the perception of urban landscapes is also investigated.