<b>Life without an álibi

Abstract

A reading of the poem O Lutador by Carlos Drummond de Andrade is given using Bakhtinian philosophy as a theoretical approach, expressed especially in Bakhtin’s For a Philosophy of the Act where an approach to language from a phenomenological perspective is provided. Further, some considerations on Heidegger’s essence of the language are discussed. The text demonstrates that the struggle Drummond is defining is an ontological one, fought by humans that constitute themselves by language. According to Bakhtin, reality is organized and the experience of the subject to be fulfilled in the world occurs at the moment of the discursive act. It is the inexorable capacity, without an alibi, to create contours and frontiers of reality, in an endless attempt, since total organization never totally materializes. 

It is in this organizational task that the human being crosses the world and, at the same time, is trespassed by it, enabling the existence of the being. This incessant fight, almost always a failure, is imperative since it gives us existence. Alibi does not exist and, although struggles are useless, the end of the battle never occurs. The struggle is still on as dawn breaks.