“A Palo Seco”: a study of the Baroque in Belchior´s work from the approach to João Cabral de Melo Neto
A Palo Seco, Baroque, Poetics Signs
“I want this knife-like crooked singing to cut your flesh” (BELCHIOR. A Palo Seco. São Paulo: Chantecler: 1974. LP 2’56’’). This research is developed in Comparative Literature, and aims to analyze Baroque characteristics in Belchior´s work from the dialogue with poetics signs existent in João Cabral de Melo Neto´s work. The argument for this research is “A Palo Seco”, a João Cabral’s poem, present in the book “Quaderna” (2008), and a Belchior’s song, from the album “Mote e Glosa” (1974). In this research we have the dialogue between literature and music based on the theory of authors such as Francisco Ivan (2013), Verônica Moura (2014), Perrone-Moises (2016), Tania Franco Carvalhal (1991), Antônio Candido (1994), among others. We conducted a survey on researches involving Belchior and João Cabral, going through the work of authors such as Josely Carlos (2007), Eurídice Figueiredo (2013), Jotabê Medeiros (2017), Glenda Moura (2014), José Américo Saraiva (2007), among others. The path of the analysis goes through poetic Cabral’s baroque signs, like a blade, a knife, the migrant, the regional and the global, that are appropriated in the work of Belchior, and as a theoretical basis to understand the Baroque, we work with authors such as Severo Sarduy (1987), Federico Garcia Lorca (1955), Lezama Lima (1957), Francisco Ivan (2013), Francisco Israel de Carvalho (2012). The results of this analysis seek to understand baroque characteristics in Belchior from this contact with the one in João Cabral, present in the poetic signs that make a dialogue between the works of both.