Ah, se ao te conhecer, dei pra sonhar, fiz tantos desvarios”: esse amor de todos nós em canções de Chico Buarque

Abstract

This work aims at investigating the faces or ways of presenting love and love relations in the lyrics of Chico Buarque's songs. Understanding love as a feeling inherent to all human beings as well as a culturally constructed ideal, the investigation proposed here will turn to some songs of the buarquian songbook which allow the discussion of the following aspects: the expression of the I in love, the love discourse; the relatiosnhip man/woman under the female view; the idea of love as romantic expression and its veiculation through songs as a product of the mass culture; the sexual desire and the presence of the body of the beloved one in songs between 1972 and 1978; the relation love/time and the changes in the artist's perspective about love modulated over time. This way, we intend to stablish a course of reading that demonstrates how the theme love is set in Chico Buarque's songs, understanding that it presents itself not only confirming its tradition in the lyric tradition in which its is inserted but also calling this tradition and the ideal of love into question. As the theoretical reference, this work will resort to the thinking of Roland Barthes, Octavio Paz, Edgar Morin, Denis de Rougemont, Simon May, Adélia Bezerra de Meneses, Mary Del Priori, Luiz Tatit, among others.