This article focuses on considerations about the cordel literature from a photograph of Pierre Verger (1902-1996), in which the French ethnologist recorded a serie of the troubadour from Alagoas Rodolfo Coelho Cavalcante's (1919-1987) leaflets exposed on the floor of Cairu square in Salvador.
cordel literature; Pierre Verger; Rodolfo Coelho Cavalcante