Abstract

The article proposes to problematize the language and metaphysics of the Minas Gerais writer João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967) as his way of inhabiting philosophy or philosophizing. To this end, a dialogue is established with the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) and with the Spanish thinker Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936), whose languages they use to construct their respective speculative thoughts, according to the writer, do not make them systematic philosophers, but rather metaphysicians of the human soul and of transcendence. The focus of discussion is based on the analysis of Rosa’s statements, collected in conversation with the literary critic Günter W. Lorenz, and in the correspondence with his German translator Curt Meyer-Clason and his Italian translator Edoardo Bizzari.