O Poema Narrativo em Crime na Calle Relator, de João Cabral de Melo Neto

Abstract

The epic, genre too played in classical literature, has lost more and more space, especially with the advent of bourgeois society. This study aims to get data about the modern narrative poem in the poetry of João Cabral de Melo Neto, tracing before, a rapid evolution of the narrative poem over the centuries, reaching the Brazilian Modernism. After this first stage, far will a cut in work on Crime na Calle Relator, João Cabral de Melo Neto, produced between 1985 and 1987, and published in 1987, one author's experience of the narrative poem. After demonstrating the poetic conception of Joao Cabral de Melo Neto in the view of some critics, listen attentively the central themes of the poetry Cabral, which permeate the work of 1987, bringing it to the character of main work of the poet from Pernambuco, marked by the memorial that bias revisit a constellation of obsessive themes, people and spaces. It will examine also the precepts of modern narrative poem in the corpus of inoculated on Crime na Calle Relator, in an attempt to reveal the marks of a strain of the classical tradition of literature and popular tradition in the construct of the text. Such an approach will be made in view of approaching and distancing, a reference to the author's life as a diplomat, with exceptions such as movement or interfering constructs of the poetic works, especially the presence of empirical evidence and sometimes prosaic, and even facts of Latin American history.