Comparative graphics of homo-biographic lives: Cazuza, Silviano and Zeca, exaggerated beyond the art(s)

Abstract

This work aims to propose a comparative, cultural, biographical and literary relationship between the song Exagerado, composed by Ezequiel Neves and Leoni and performed by the singer Cazuza, and the novel Mil rosas roubadas wrote by the writer and essayist Silviano Santiago (2014). In summary, Silviano’s novel is based on the friendship and relationship of the character and narrator Silviano with Zeca, in addition, the novel mentioned is crossed by a homosexual love that, many times, is exaggerated, unrequited and frustrated just like Cazuza’s song makes explicit. In this way, for Silviano to title his 2014 novel with an excerpt from the song also produced by Ezequiel in 1985, it is justified, through a metaphorical, cultural and biographical reading (SOUZA, 2002), the comparison between both Brazilian artistic manifestations taking into account the sensitive writing-experiences of the subjects involved in this process. Thus, we will work, essentially, with a comparative-bibliographic methodology based on biographic criticism as an epistemological basis for the discussion according to intellectuals Roland Barthes, Mathieu Lindon, Denilson Lopes, Italo Moriconi, Geraldo Majela Martins and Eneida Maria de Souza.