THE BODIES IN CAST-ELO: THE POETICS OF LAURA ERBER
Laura Erber; Contemporary Brazilian poetry; Body; Eroticism; Death.
This study concerns the poetry of Laura Erber, a Brazilian poetess and artist born in Rio de Janeiro in 1979. Our main approach is her book Os corpos e os dias/ Bodies and days, first edited by Editora de Cultura in 2008. In our attempt to indicate traces of her poetry, we paid special attention to some features such as the importance of the body and the time, which brings up the discussion about the death in Laura’s literary and artistic practice. In order to consider the body in Os corpos e os dias/Bodies and days, we established an analogy with the book Works & days, by the Greek poet Hesiod. For this study, Georges Bataille’s thoughts on eroticism, Sigmund Freud’s Pleasure and Reality Principles, and Herbert Marcuse’s Principle of Performance, formulated from Freud’s previous principles, are relevant. Jean Luc-Nancy’s writing on body, especially his book Corpus (2000), also play an important part in our present study.