Fronteiras tradutoras: as ondulações da cobra coral de Montaigne a Caetano

Abstract

In the thirty‐first chapter of his ‘Les Essais’ (The Essays) entitled “Des Cannibales” (From the Cannibals), Montaigne narrates how the coral snake song poem from the Brazilian Indians came to him. He generically calls it couleuvre. After being translated in French, the poem is re‐ elaborated in two distinct moments by Goethe in German. It then returns to Brazil in the work of Wally Salomão and finally enters the universe of the pop culture when it becomes the song “Cobra Coral” by Caetano Veloso. In order to follow the paths of translation and re‐elaboration of this poem, or as the Campos brothers say ‘its trans‐creation,’ this article aims at discussing Oswald de Andrade’s anthropophagic ideas. It continues with the unfolding of Oswald’s ideas on the theoriesof Vilém Flusser and Haroldo de Campos concerning translation from the point of view of culture, art and sign.