Disymmetries

Abstract

A remarkable feature of the broad cycle of modern age (which starts at least in the 19th century, if not in the age of the great navigations, and proceeds up to present, in various momentary textures) is the intention or the impulse of turning away from conventional regards on reality e reaching different perspectives of thought, art, language, and individual and collective experience (inclusively towards non-human beings). Nietzsche called that “difference of outlook”, pointing it as a guiding element in his philosophical work. This article aims to relate the nietzschean syntagm mentioned to formal experimentation in recent poetry as the survival of that directive in a work which intensively dialogues with modern tradition: the poetry of Brazilian author Carlito Azevedo (1961). It is active, in that frame, the hypothesis that the Carlito’s poems indicate a more general trend, in literally as in philosophical modern writings, which keeps viewpoints deviation as a method, but also as inevitable concern before modernity’s perplexities. This possibility will be here observed from the reading of two Carlito’s poems from his book Monodrama (2009), entitled “Uma tentativa de retratá-la” [‘An atempt of portraying her’] and “Pálido céu abissal” [‘Pale abyssal sky’], focusing on the following matters: representation and politics as communitarian life; such exercise made possible to formulate the notion of disymmetry ou asymmetry (both words being synonyms), linked here to a path which comes from the ‘difference of outlook’ conceived by the German philosopher quoted and croses the so-called “philosophy of difference”, comprehending authors such as Jacques Derrida, Giles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Gianni Vattimo etc.