Fadas e pivetes: a infância em Chico Buarque.

Abstract

This paper aims an initial approximation with two ways in which childhood makes its presence in Chico Buarque de Holanda's work. First, we introduce those works frankly aimed at the children – the book Chapeuzinho Amarelo and the piece Os Saltimbancos, both resulting from the author and playwright's dialogue with the oral tradition, the fairy tales. Then we will point out how childhood is represented in Chico's songs. Our main guideline is to ascertain the multiple presences of childhood, seen here as a kind of knowledge that comes from people of all ages in Chico Buarque's work.