mário de sá-carneiro: evidence of a myth, evidence of a body

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2016v21n2p56 This paper aims to propose an aerial reading of some elements found in Mário de Sá-Carneiro’s work, by pursuing to point, firstly, how its mythical dimension, cultivated since the first editions of his work, deeply set the reading done of it. In this regard, we will approach his suicide, retaken and reaffirmed by names, such as Fernando Pessoa, José Régio, Casais Monteiro, for instance, and how this theme contributed to the myth crystallization. In a second moment, taking into consideration certain themes and figures that can be seized of Sá-Carneiro’s texts, we will show other reading paths, searching in poems, letters and some of his narratives elements that will allow to glimpse in his writing the presence of his body. And it is this body description, which proposes again concepts of feminine and masculine, that seems to be for us what we should take as innovative in his poetry, in the way it would be exactly one of his evidence of modernity.