Nietzsche and Belchior, an unlikely encounter between the hammer and the knife.

Abstract

The objective of this work is to make some considerations bringing the work of poet composer Belchior from Ceará to the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, in addition to promoting a free interaction between the biographies of these two libertarian spirits. I also intend to demonstrate that Belchior's work harmonizes with Nietzsche's thought in many aspects of his poetic production. In order to clarify these comments, I will briefly address some concepts of Nietzsche's philosophy to broaden the understanding of the issues presented here.

In the aphorism 299 of A Gaia Ciência Nietzsche comments that with artists we learn to make things beautiful and apparent, and urges his readers to be more than artists, to be poets-authors of their own lives. The troubadour Belchior from Ceará, who made his life an extension of his art, stated in a historical interview in the old newspaper Pasquim (I strongly recommend reading it) that “Art is the power of fertility and Power is the power of sterility”. I intend to present in this essay a picture showing that both were philosophers and artists who made their own lives a work of art.