A poética da constrição: a questão da liberdade em Jakob von Gunten, de Robert Walser

Abstract

This dissertation proposes the investigation of the poetics of the Swiss writer Robert Walser. Such research has Jakob von Gunten. Ein Tagebüch as the main object , discussed along with his other prose pieces, poetries and romances. According to the hypotheses developed such poetic concernes constriction, ie, what draws boundaries and limitations, but also freedom, the coefficient of malleability which is in these limits. It is argued, finally, the idea that there is, in Robert Walser, the concept of a form of freedom that don't want to be unique and individual, and that includes its own limitations just like the condition of their very existence.