Books of prose
Although Vinicius had established his public figure through poetry and popular song, he was one of the greatest prose writers of his generation. As a matter of fact, a generation where the good prose of that time was crystallized through a chronic genre extremely characterized by the style of Rio de Janeiro city.
With a large number of newspapers that circulated in the city and with a team of writers which would vary from Rubem Braga to Carlinhos de Oliveira, from Carlos Drummond de Andrade to Clarice Lispector, from Fernando Sabino to Nelson Rodrigues, Vinicius sit among them as a chronicler who transmitted to the prose, the same reasons and the same lightness of style that he presented to the public in his poems.
Most of his prose texts had their origin in the press of Rio in the 1940s and 1950s. Vinicius maintained a close relationship with the editorial staff, writing not only chronic, as well as cinema reviews and texts about popular music. He worked for newspapers and magazines like A Manhã, O Jornal, Diário Carioca, Diretrizes, Vanguarda, Última Hora and Fatos e Fotos. Besides these, he wrote for periodicals that marked an era as Flan, Senhor and Pasquim. Many of these texts were gathered together in two chronicle books: “Para Viver um Grande Amor” (To Live a Great Love) (1962) and “Para uma Menina com uma Flor” (To a Girl with a Flower) (1966), publications in which the prose and poetry lived on the same pages.
The Prose of Vinicius synthesizes, like few, a zeitgeist of the Brazilian literature and everyday life, crossed by his interest in his characters, in its landscapes and its great creators.
The Prose of Vinicius synthesizes, like few, a zeitgeist of the Brazilian literature and everyday life, crossed by his interest in his characters, in its landscapes and its great creators.
