O autor-criador e o(s) outro(s): a estética da vida na escrita de diários de irmãos agricultores

Abstract

This study analyzes the diaries written by three farmer brothers and how their lives have been aesthetically engaged in the act of writing in a rural routine. Its main theoretical-methodological reference was the Bakhtin Circle, besides other authors studies which have been based on the Bakhtinian theory. This dissertation is supported by the presuppositions regarding the aesthetic and responsible act which may enable interaction between two worlds: the world of life and the world of theory. Therefore, the diaries were problematized as an aesthetic and responsible act with which the farmers developed interaction between both worlds in their daily routines. Twenty one diaries written by three Schmidt brothers in different moments of their lives, from 1972 to 2007, were analyzed. Aldo started his writings in 1972, got married in 1976 and has kept writing his diaries with his new family so far whereas Clemer was asked - by his father - to carry out the family s collective writings; thus, it was a family s diary, rather than a personal diary like Aldo s. Clemer only wrote while he was single and lived in his father s home. He got married in 1979, moved in with his new family and stopped writing but left the diaries in his father s home so that his brothers could go on writing. Unlike his brothers, Clenderci started writing his diary after getting married in 1983 and kept writing until 1992. This dissertation shows that there is interaction between the world of theory and the world of life through the unique and responsible act of diary writing. Each brother s ownership shows how similar the compositional forms of the diary organization are; however, they are different regarding their architectural aspects. Each author has his own architectural project, writes down everyday utterances in agreement with his axiological position, registers facts in his own way, organizes them aesthetically according to his authorcreator, and, consequently, produces different senses in his writing. Therefore, the aesthetics of life is existence itself: the existence of the authors-creators Aldo, Clemer and Clenderci in the act of writing their diaries which represent the succession of acts they go through in their rural lives.