Brief prose with Ariano Suassuna or The story of the man who took singerother directions for singings to the theater and showed

Abstract

Ariano Suassuna, poet, novelist and playwright, according to his own definition, was not only a man from the sertão, but also made this space his chosen place as a representation of the Brazilian people. This interview, carried out at his home in Recife, Pernambuco, on May 24, 2013, just 1 year before his departure, as part of the research carried out on improvised singing, reveals how he worked with popular poets beyond borders. from the literary, fictional field, and to what extent (although immeasurable) his proximity since childhood, still in Taperoá, Paraíba, with popular practices motivated him to act as a banner, whose pennant attracted the attention of such different audiences, echoing through the four chants his writing that drank from oral sources.
The conversation presented here is the result of the challenge of interviewing a paradoxical man, in many ways, with such vast knowledge and such diminutive time for what did not arouse passions for him. If I had access to Mr. Ariano, I saw in his eyes the Ariano boy, walking with his dreams, restless and disquieting since always.