Cecília Meireles: por onde anda a cronista viajante?

Résumé

This text aims to examine the theme of travel in Cecília Meireles' chronicles from the perspective of the presence in the narrative of a "Shepherdess of Clouds" who guides the process of her writing in a reflective and meditative manner. This reflection will prioritize a specific journey undertaken by the poet in 1944, composed of narratives that stage the experience of the traveling chronicler who will move from Rio de Janeiro "towards the south" of Brazil and to the countries of Argentina and Uruguay, as can be seen in the chronicles published in the newspapers Folha Carioca and A Manhã and, posthumously in the book Crônicas de viagem, 1. In this sense, this research has a critical nature – mainly in light of the theories of travel and landscape (Onfray and Collot) –, examining the narrative text with an emphasis on the elements of language and the chronicle genre, and privileging both the focus on the short account (language and subjectivity) and the meanings exposed in the text of the traveling chronicler who in writing "will keep the window open" (Rancière).