The ambiguity in “Famigerado” and the lógos as a powerful lord

Abstract

The paper aims to verify the possibility of establishing a dialogue between the speeches in the tale “Famigerado”, wrote by João Guimarães Rosa, and Górgias’ perspective from Leontini on lógos, as the sophist presents it in Encomium of Helen. To achieve the objective proposed by the study, we started with the indication of the ambiguities in the Guimarães Rosa´s tale. Further on, these indications allowed us to perceive the ambiguities equally present in the theory exposed in Encomium of Helen, taken lógos sometimes as a speech, sometimes as a word, always placed as a powerful lord. This observation led us to the last movement of the study, in which we were able to associate the perspectives on the lógoi proposed by Gorgias and those of the speech and words that make up the plot of the Guimarães Rosa´s tale under consideration. Therefore, the development of the discussion proposed by us throughout this article points to a dialogue between the studied texts, since the configuration of “Famigerado” as well as Encomium of Helen and of the testimonials on Gorgias’ thought allow us to establish the lógos as a powerful lord.