The memory of gestures in the symbolist poetry of Dario Velozzo

Abstract

If one considers that image is always already loaded with history, it is possible to note that the coming back of the same image in different conditions establishes a difference that gives it potency capable of situating it in a web, making it function both as a symptom, in face of an interruption in knowledge, and as knowledge, in face of an interruption of chaos. One can think of the Symbolist poetry. Symbolism was mostly kept at the margins of modernist critique. In Curitiba the occultist and Neopythagoric Dario Vellozzo was one of its most important promoters. To build the Templo das Musas with the goal of reviving the cult to Pythagoras was only one of the strategies adopted in an attempt to create a cultural environment favorable to the rebirth of paganism in the context of the Belle Époque. Provocative attitudes as to parade by the city in Hellenic clothes turned Dario Vellozo a foreign body in the state Paraná. To perceive the survival of primordial forms of Greek culture in his poetry is the goal of the present work.