Presences of Orfeu / Presenças de Orfeu
AUTOR(ES)
Maria Claudete de Souza Oliveira
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2007
RESUMO
Myths are giving back to mankind their own conflicts. As metaphor "they play their role" to talk "to the deep levels of mankind". As time goes by, these language figures can loose their absorption capacity but artists "in accordance with their disciplines and arts" are reviving them "in the contemporary context of experience". Starting from this observation, an analysis and a comparison of the following works are done : "Legado" &"Canto orfico", poems from Carlos Drummond de Andrade, "Orfeu da conceiçao, a Carioca tragedy" from Vinícius de Moraes and two movies "Orfeu Negro" from Marcel Camus &"Orfeu do Carnaval" from Carlos Diegues. The first impression in Vinícius- Orfeo is that he promotes or wants to promote the Dionisyac dissolution of differences suggested by the singer on the "morro": Orfeu da Concecao. This first impression is different in Drummonds Orfeo who defines himself and defines what he sees as closer perhaps to the Apollinic character of the myth. But getting closer to Orfeus remake one can observe the Drummond Dionisyac expression as well as the Appolinic expression of Vinícius inverting the first impression but keeping in both the ethical feeling in front of the indifferent world to myth and the belief in the value of poetry and songs. The presence of Orfeu in the movies of Marcel Camus and Carlos Diegues which as in the play are bringing up to date the myth in a "favela", during the same decade of the play and forty years later respectively, are confirming the capacity of songs and art to transform "agony in elegy" as Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Vinícius de Moraes did with their works
ASSUNTO(S)
carlos drummond de andrade; orfeu; poem; song; vinícius de moraes canção;carlos drummond de andrade; orfeu; poesia; vinícius de moraes
