The unfolded muse: paths from the self to the other in the works of Adalgisa Nery

Admired by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Murilo Mendes and Jorge de Lima, Adalgisa Nery became muse of a circle of artists who attended the house of the painter Ismael Nery. At the same time, her life story and work culminate with a self-imposed silence until her death. Such isolation of Adalgisa in a nursing home in Jacarepagua can sometimes be thought of not only as a choice for withdrawal from society - in which she exercised a political career, interrupted in 1960 by the cancellation of her term - but as a misunderstanding of her work, a kind of feminine and feminist portrait of a Brazilian modern intellectual. At this crossroad between the auratic cult of the Muse and the unique voice of the poet and fiction writer, her work will be analyzed from a fundamental theme of her writing: the unstable and complex transits between the self-construction of an own poetic voice - and the other, embodied outside of the world or as a body figuration as matter foreign to the spirit.