O percurso histórico-literário em Pessoa e Suassuna: uma poética do mito sebástico à luz do imaginário de Gilbert Durand

Abstract

This research turns to a historical - cultural phenomenon whose importance is reflected in Lusophone countries: the myth of King Dom Sebastião. The Sebastianism crossed centuries and migrated from Portugal to scholarly and popular traditions, as occurred in northeastern Brazil. The analysis undertaken in this investigation seeks to situate the sebástic myth on imagination light in two literary works: Message from Fernando Pessoa, and The Stone Prince of the Kingdom and the blood of the back and forth from Ariano Suassuna . In Fernando Pessoa‟s, there is the presence of a mith closer to its original context and more orthodox appearance. In Ariano Suassuna‟s , there is a hybridized myth, amalgamated in diverse socio- cultural context and enriched by popular tradition of a very singular Brazil : the narratives of musical literature , the woodcut , the outbursts , the popular poetry , the legends of country man . The myth is therefore investigated in some of its theoretical aspects as well as the theory of fictional Gilbert Durand, whose methodology lies the comparative study between the literary works. The mythlogy of Durand, through mythcriticism, provides the concepts that will be used in this approach a fascinating journey : the sebastic myth, which is historical, cultural, political , and above all in this research , a literary mot of the richest in Lusophone traditions .