Benjamin Péret et le Brésil
(2012) 693 pages
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- (en) Benjamin Péret has twice spent long periods of time in Brazil: both at the end of the 1920's and in 1955/56. After leaving Europe to immerse himself in Brazilian cultural roots, he was welcomed by members of the "anthropophagous" movement, conducted by Oswald de Andrade, a movement centered on a mythical figure - the Indian cannibal. His trip resulted in a fundamental discovery: the inner Other: the Black, in its magical, mythical, historical and political dimensions. "Primitive" and salvage poetry, as in the mysterious afro-brazilian rituals, acted as a revelation for him and enabled him to develop a theory about primitivism as deeply rooted in Consciousness and linked with the dynamic of life. During his second stay, Péret continued his explorations and focused his writing on a different type of Other: the Autochton. He used different literary genres to express and explore Otherness: critical and historical essay, travel stories, documentaries, poems, sentences, short-stories, and (parody of) myths. This study makes inroads into Péret's Brazilian experiences, highlights the intercultural and intertextual nature of his encounter with Brazil and demonstrates its impact on his own mythology, on his thinking and on his writing, which is always linked with surrealism and its ethical and aesthetical requirements.
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Lourenço de Abreu, L. (2012). Benjamin Péret et le Brésil (Thèse de doctorat en Littérature et civilisation françaises). Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/185562