THE RELEVANCE OF THE BAROQUE IN BRAZILIAN LITERATURE AND CINEMA: THE SERMONS OF VIEIRA AND JÚLIO BRESSANE

Abstract

This study investigates the persistence of Baroque aesthetics in contemporary times through a dialogue between the oratory of Father Antônio Vieira and the cinematography of Júlio Bressane. The central problem of the research lies in the way in which the Baroque re-emerges as an aesthetic matrix capable of organizing the crisis of values ​​of modern man. The relevance of the investigation lies in problematizing historiographical narratives based on diachronic linearity, operating an epistemological reconfiguration of the founding matrices of Brazilian culture. The theoretical foundation is anchored in the synchronic poetics of Haroldo de Campos and in the reflections of Antônio José Saraiva on "ingenious discourse". The methodology uses comparative analysis to interpret Bressane's "cinemarisco" from the perspective of Pasolini's "cinema of poetry". The results demonstrate that Bressane's cinematographic operation constitutes a re-creation of Vieira's ingenuity. The use of a chaotic camera and unconventional angles functions as a visual equivalent of the contradictions of Baroque discourse. The research reveals that the relevance of this aesthetic lies in offering a syntax for the fragmentary. It concludes that the Baroque manifests itself as a subjective survival strategy that unites the archaic with the avant-garde in a meditation on national cultural identity.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2026.001-013