Glauco Mattoso’s Cautos Causos

Abstract

This paper deals with the comic-satirical form of the book Raymundo Curupyra, o Caypora, by Glauco Mattoso. It remembers that his 200 sonnets of low genre, decasyllabic verse and assonant rhymes abba/abba/cdc/dcd compose, in the sequence in which they are ordered, narrative sets. Jokingly titled “cautos causos”, they form an ironically lyrical novel whose subject matter is the temporalities of the actions of Raymundo Curupyra. The comic inadequacies of his acts are narrated by Craque, “perfeito/ malandro brasileiro da selecta/ralé miscigenada” (Sonnet 107), who, having aids, jumps tragically from the Martinelli building, defeated by himself and by São Paulo city. The paper proposes that the principle – and the limit – of the acts of Craque's lyrical speech is the misery that fornicates with lust. That is: the paper proposes that the book effectuates the tired jest or the burlesque melancholy characteristic of a serious-comic portrait of São Paulo and the contemporary Brazilian society. --- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25094/rtp.2017n22a444

Keywords

• gênero baixo
• soneto
• miséria
• galhofa
• causo.