ABSTRACT
This article aims at building a reflection on the subject "anguish in face of death", based on the analysis of the narrative "Lázaro" (1970), by Hilda Hilst. Proposing a rereading of the biblical episode of Lazarus‟ death and resurrection, such text allows us to establish a dialogue with the concept of being-toward-death , by Martin Heidegger, as well as with Edmund Burke‟s theory of sublime , whose core is the manifestation of death. By drawing these dialogues, we expect to point out how the protagonist narrator of Hilst‟s text can be thought as an incarnation of Heidegger‟s being-toward-death .
Keywords:
being-toward-death; anguish; "Lázaro"; Hilda Hilst