Books
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.
O espectro da Rosa
Vinicius de Moraes
Poesia
O ESPECTRO DA ROSA
Juntem-se vermelho
Rosa, azul e verde
E quebrem o espelho
Roxo para ver-te
Amada anadiômena
Saindo do banho
Qual rosa morena
Mais chá que laranja.
E salte o amarelo
Cinzento de ciúme
E envolta em seu chambre
Te leve castanha
Ao branco negrume
Do meu leito em chamas.
Montevidéu, 1959
