Os folhetos de cordel como matéria-prima do romance d'A Pedra do Reino

Abstract

This project intends to expose the aspects of Armorial Movement, its appearance and characteristics. Well as the relationships between the works cited in the romance A Pedra do Reino e o Princípe do Sangue Vai-e-Volta, written by Ariano Suassuna, which forms the cultural circularity, defended by Ginzburg, analyzing some parts of Suassuna’s work. Also it will show the influence of “folhetos de cordel” in the work’s process composition, demonstrating elements that approach the romance and the Brazil’s northeastern popular literature. Ariano Suassuna, writer of greats Brazilian novels is also the creator of the Armorial Movement, a project that involved artists of all areas, like plastics arts, music, theater and the literature, the movement had as a symbol the novel A Pedra do Reino. In that romance, the author mixes the reality, the backcountry people’s fantastic and mythical world with king histories, outlaws and knights, surrounded by mysteries and enigmas to be unraveled.