Manoel de Barros: o voyeur menino e as seduções da Musa

Abstract

This paper proposes a reading on Brazilian poet's work Manoel de Barros, emphasizing the closeness between childhood and eroticism, seen in the personification of poetry in the poet's seduction for love play with language. Regularly presented in Barros' compositions since the first book, Poemas concebidos sem pecado (1938), the erotic figuration of the poetic word and of the poetic material acts either as an intermediate point between the art of creating and the artist, represented by a childlike persona who is faced with the seductive power of language, sometimes as a gateway to social and human issues.