A cidade de São Paulo e o Mesmo (entre Ruffato, Runia e Tom Zé)

Abstract

The article analyzes Eles eram muitos cavalos, by Luiz Ruffato, from the standpoint of a city of São Paulo metaphorically defined as the “Same '. The goal is to understand the fictionalization of the “physical’ city as decisive for the “critique of culture” produced by the author. These results are submitted to a dialogue with the concept of “presence” as developed by the historian Eelco Runia, in order to clarify the redundancy of Ruffatos “critique” of São Paulo/Brazil. Finally, an alternative to that redundancy is found in the humor of Tom Zes compositions - songs that have the same São Paulo as their theme