PARQUE DAS RUÍNAS:

EM DEFESA DE UMA POÉTICA DO ARQUIVO EM MARÍLIA GARCIA

Abstract

This paper aims to offer a reading of Parque das Ruínas, by Marília Garcia, considering a tendency toward indeterminacy in certain strands of contemporary literature. This tendency manifests primarily in challenges to categorization and in the convergence of literary works with modes, forms, and techniques from other artistic fields — especially through the incorporation of photographic imagery and the approach to an essayistic mode of writing. To support this perspective, the study draws parallels with other contemporary women writers, such as Ieda Magri and Aline Motta, who, like Garcia, engage in a practice that intertwines image and text, using photographic records and archival work as tools for memory and narrative construction, and as foundations for literary creation. Through a close reading of Garcia’s book, the study identifies the development of a literary project that questions the limits and possibilities of poetry — not only as a space for poetic expression but also as a means of critical and reflective thought. This is especially evident in the poet’s effort to reveal the medium itself, which can be understood as the book’s own compositional process, and in the foregrounding of an epistemological and investigative approach.