A Palo Seco: uma aproximação neobarroca entre Belchior e João Cabral de Melo Neto

Abstract

“Eu quero é que esse canto torto feito faca corte a carne de vocês” (NETO, 2019, p. 74). This research is developed with the support of Comparative Literature and aims to analyze neobaroque characteristics in Belchior's work from the dialogue with poetic signs present in the work of João Cabral de Melo Neto. The starting point for this research is “A Palo Seco”, a poem in João Cabral and a song in Belchior, from the album ‘Mote e Glosa’ (1974). In the poem, “A Palo Seco” which is a Spanish expression that refers to the flamenco matrix, appears associated with the image of the blade, to “cante sem,/ o cante despido,/ é cante desarmado:/ só a lâmina da voz/ sem a arma do braço” (SECCHIN, 1985, p. 146), poetic sign used in Belchior´s songs, not only in “A Palo Seco”, as well as in “Apenas um rapaz latino-americano”, “Pequeno mapa do tempo”, among others. In research, two artistic perspectives (João Cabral de Melo Neto e Belchior), two poetic forms (literature and music), a dialogue (Baroque and Neo-Baroque), and analysis scenarios (arid region, global, retreat, fear, a palo seco, the voice and the life. The work is organized in four chapters, going through the question of the approximation of literature with music and more specifically the intermingling of these themes in Comparative Literature, followed by a chapter that observes the research already carried out involving Belchior and João Cabral de Melo Neto and finally, the analytical chapter, which develops the neo-baroque theme in the work of the songwriter Belchior. The survey on research involving Belchior and João Cabral, goes through the works of authors as Josely Carlos (2007), Eurídice Figueiredo (2013), Jotabê Medeiros (2017), Glenda Moura (2014), José Américo Saraiva (2007), Lenise dos Santos Santiago (2007 and 2011), among others. The path of analysis goes through Baroque Cabraline poetic signs, such as the blade, the knife, the retreatant, the regional and the global, the sing and the life, which are appropriate in the work of the Ceará and, as a theoretical contribution to understand the neo-baroque we work with authors such as: Severo Sarduy (1987), Francisco Ivan (2013), Francisco Israel de Carvalho (2012). The results of this analysis sought to perceive neo-baroque characteristics in Belchior's songs from the contact with modern Baroque in João Cabral, present in the poetic signs that make dialogue between Brazil and Hispanic culture.