O “hipócrita leitor” de Baudelaire e a poesia brasileira contemporânea

This essay aims to cover the recurrence of a single verse by Baudelaire, “Hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère”, from the opening poem of Les Fleurs du Mal, in three poems by Brazilian poets: “Fogo do final” by Ana Cristina Cesar, “Dez sonetóides mancos” by Paulo Henriques Britto and “Modo de usar” by Marcos Siscar. It is about the resumption of Baudelaire in the inter-textual perspective of a writing-through, as Marjorie Perloff points out in Unoriginal genious, which allows not only to consider the participation of the poet in a larger and more public discourse, but to think about the status of this relationship between poet and reader. In the three poems a certain place of reading/quotation from another work seems to be explicit, which comes up, precisely, in the verse in which the reader’s moral place is questioned.