APFELSTRUDEL, 80 CAMADAS DA MAIS FINA MASSA FOLHEADA DE MÚLTIPLOS EUS: UMA HOMENAGEM A CLAUDIO WILLER

Abstract

This essay is a tribute to the São Paulo’s poet, essayist and translator Claudio Willer who, in December 2020, completed 80 years. Through a dialogue among his prose texts, some poems and critical fortune, an examination of his trajectory, which began in the mid-1960s, will be carried out. In a surrealistic matrix, his procedure takes place, above all, in an attitude that intertwines his production with a way of life that, in turn, unfolds in this production. In his practice, the poet absorbs a conception of literature free from the restriction of reason and open to contemplation of the enigmatic and magical character of the universe. In this perspective, he translated works by important foundation authors of Surrealism and Beat literature. Based on the considerations of Leila Perrone-Moisés, it is possible to understand the multiple actions of Willer – his profuse game of selves, poet, translator and theoretical critic, with the most diverse interlocutors – as components of a scope necessary for the vitality of the surrealistic assumptions in the brazilian artistic and literary activity. The intersection of his actions also signals the intertextuality very tessiture of his poetry – his most radical resource. After all, an anti aristotelian inside out, the poetic word is, for Willer, a magical agent that produces reality.