Roberto Schwarz em verso e prosa: confluências entre Corações Veteranos e “As ideias fora do lugar"

Abstract

This text examines the interrelation between poetic production and essay writing in the work of Roberto Schwarz during the 1970s. More specifically, it  focuses on the confluences between the poems in the book Corações veteranos(1974) — as well as those Schwarz published in the anthology 26 poetas hoje(1976) —and the essay “Misplaced Ideas” (first published in 1973 in the journal Estudos Cebrap, and later in the 1977 book To the  Victor, the Potatoes). In a  dynamic of mutual tensions and illuminations, poetry and essay establish an original field of forces, whose essayistic result became a landmark in Brazilian  culture,  while  the  poetic  aspect remained  in the  background. Considered together, they simultaneously shed light on Schwarz’s aesthetic tour de force and his contradictory stance toward one of his main literary sources, Brazilian modernism.