Luis da Câmara Cascudo: diálogos com a cultura popular no Romance Canto de Muro.

Abstract

This work has the intention to develop a reading of Luís da Câmara Cascudo, from his only published novel, titled as Canto de Muro: Romance de Costumes. Even though the author tried various experiments clerks, as concerned with the study of Popular Culture, history, ethnography, and in various memorialistic texts is in this particular book that Cascudo throws a whole load emotional and sentimental, instilling an intense self-written, performed a reading from his childhood and life memories. Thus, our intention to seek a production at this level is to find the marks of a Câmara Cascudo novelist, an unexpected activity, which shows the marks of an author who does not shun topics that were part of the corpus of his work. It is from this particular record, we will examine its indirect involvement with the Regionalist Movements and moreover with Modernism from São Paulo. We question, that this reference to the literary world in his works is on the fact that the author worry about the marks produced by popular, then, because of this prerogative, we consider essential to work the concepts of popular culture, as well as folk and tradition, drawing a parallel between the questions posed by researchers and own Câmara Cascudo understanding. Well, we understand that studying these identifications of Câmara Cascudo is that we can understand him as a writer, moreover, point out what are the goals inherent in his work. Thus, Canto de Muro is housed within this complex clerk by which the author throughout his years of intense research threads that weaves together a production to another.