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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 anjo das pernas tortas
Vinicius de Moraes
Poesia
O ANJO DAS PERNAS TORTAS
A Flávio Porto
A um passe de Didi, Garrincha avança
Colado o couro aos pés, o olhar atento
Dribla um, dribla dois, depois descansa
Como a medir o lance do momento.
Vem-lhe o pressentimento; ele se lança
Mais rápido que o próprio pensamento
Dribla mais um, mais dois; a bola trança
Feliz, entre seus pés — um pé de vento!
Num só transporte a multidão contrita
Em ato de morte se levanta e grita
Seu uníssono canto de esperança.
Garrincha, o anjo, escuta e atende: — Goooool!
É pura imagem: um G que chuta um o
Dentro da meta, um l. É pura dança!
Rio, 1962
