As pedras e as cores. Transfigurações do nigredo e jornada circular em Evocações, de Cruz e Sousa

• Published in: Opiniães
• Main Author: Araujo, Manuella Miki Souza
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas 2018
• Subjects: Cruz e Sousa; Transfiguration; Colors; Stones; Blackness; First nature; Transfiguração; Pedras; Nigredo; Primeira natureza; North Pole; Opala; Polo
• Online Access: https://www.revistas.usp.br/opiniaes/article/view/143048

Through the use of the alchemical principle of transfiguration, the poet Cruz e Sousa combines the polarities of art and life, creator and creature, the African deserts and the icy North Pole, synthesized in images derived from the colorful opal. In the poet’s attempt to transfigure himself, this pr...