O poema Marcelo Ariel, ou como nos tornamso sóis

Abstract

The objective of this article is to pursue the question: “how do we become suns?” From the work of the poet, performer and essayist Marcelo Ariel, who lives in Cubatão, industrial city of Baixada Santista, São Paulo, Brazil. For this discussion, excerpts from his book The Creation of the World as Forgetfulness, published in 2015, have been chosen. It is a book composed of small essays, fictitious interviews, excerpts from diaries, verses and loose sentences, characterizing itself as a text Diverse and at the same time uno, since all the fragments have the title “Sunday”. Let’s try to find in some excerpts the voices of Ariel pursuing the statement “we must write about how we become suns” dialoguing with the text Because it is written by Maria Zambrano, Spanish philosopher. For her, writing is defending solitude, but communicable solitude. This writing emerges from a fidelity to what needs to be wrenched from silence. And this does not mean putting yourself, but being an empty place where silence can lodge. To become the sun is to create oneself, beyond what one wants to say, and precisely for this reason, it is always Sunday and we can together be suns