abstract
“Who will listen to songs of a mule?” is one of the questions posed by the narrator in the poem Mula de Deus that finishes the narrative Estar sendo: ter sido (2006), by Hilda Hilst. As the author’s last book this volume uses a philosophical in order to approach themes such as: ageing, human finiteness, and the cynical tensions between the animist pragmatic, among other, comparing these to the supposed solaces and redemptions produced by traditional metaphysics. This study focuses mainly on the tensions, in the poem, between the ecocritical animism, encouraged by the a current of Cynical philosophy through the notion of parrhesia, and a certain conservative religious bias. This thematic context is also reflected in the hybrid literary genre, which oscillates between poetry and prose, through which the writer expresses one of the possible balances of her aesthetics.
Keywords:
Mula de Deus/Estar sendo: ter sido; cynical ethics; parrhesia; Hilda Hilst