Gilles Deleuze and Guimarães Rosa : a connection between philosophy and literature: the becoming, the double and the metamorphosis

Abstract

This communication aims to the comprehension of the process of metamorphosis suffered by the character Riobaldo in Grande Sertão: Veredas, a brazilian romance by Guimarães Rosa. This analysis will start from the deleuzian ideas on Body without Organs -- Plan of Immanence and from the concepts of becoming and multiplicity. Deleuze identifies the various becomings (also called intensive states) to processes of metamorphosis (or variation of multiplicities). At each time affections occur that determine on the Body without Organs one “Me” always to come. Becoming diabolical, in the case of Riobaldo, means then to stand on the edge of the affectability of the devil. Riobaldo achieves new qualities and new relations of movement  from the pact with the devil. So, this diabolical becoming is the metamorphosis of Riobaldo. The relationship of Riobaldo with the devil is one of the experimentations where the attributes of  the Body without Organs are engendered. The pact of Riobaldo is, then, a diabolical becoming.

Key-words: Deleuze, Esthetics, Guimarães Rosa, Transformation, Metamorphosis.