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#8
kkkk, "Julinho de Adelaide", claro. Desculpe pelo meu erro crasso. Por aqui se diz: "Mate o homem, mas não troque o nome", não sei se seria perdoado por meus conterrâneos por tamanha infâmia. Contudo, como foi o pseudônimo, rezo pelo perdão. Abraços! Responder

#7
This evening I gained a good perspective about Chico Buarque from two stories, one written in 2004 and one in 2006 2004: Guardian Newspaper Article - The Lionized King of Rio https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/jul/18/fiction.features3 2006: Artistic Interview - by a Dutch writer Maarten De Haan http://www.artistinterviews.eu/?page_id=12&parent_id=22/ From this I looked at what led to the pseudonym which was quoted as "Julinho da Adelaide" and that took me first to finding out about Brazilian Tropicalia led by Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso. I discovered that the military crackdown was most between 1969 and 1974 and that Buarque also developed a rift with Gil and Veloso, but mending that rift after he returned to Brazil in 1971, which I find quite daring that it is in the middle of the most repressive years. I enjoyed reading that he gained a national identity card and even gave press interviews under his pseudonym before he was detected. Brazilian Tropicalia http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/music/tropicalia.html I definitely enjoyed learning about him and he seems to be an icon who likes to get on with his business and has a healthy attitude to the sickness (as he calls its) of fame. I like the fact that credits Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes for introducing Buarque to music, and who you also introduced me to https://www.bebee.com/producer/@jose-brito-e-silva/caricatura-de-vinicius-de-moraes in September 2016. Responder

#5
Sobre pseudônimo, aqui tivemos(temos) outro famoso, o Chico Buarque de Holanda, escritor e músico, que no período da ditadura, passou a chamar-se de Chiquinho de Adelaide, artimanha usada para que suas músicas fossem liberadas pelos sensores, que via de regras são obtusos, para gravações. Chico Buarque conseguiu por um bom tempo ludibriar a censura. Responder

BTW as I discover more and more I have taken note of Chilean poet/thinker Nicanor Parra http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/03/26/our-twilight-lands/ - interestingly I can't find anything in Paris Review that references Ferreira Gullar or under the name Jos Ribamar Ferreira. This has been a refreshing and interesting learning experience especially as I begin to study Gullar. Responder

#3
One thing I look for in greatness is not what the expert or reviewer says but what the voice of the people say, and as I make my belated discovery of Ferreira Gullar, I read through a 2012 discussion group and this mans greatness is totally personified by the people writing there http://www.worldliteratureforum.com/forum/showthread.php/54456-Ferreira-Gullar One discussion writer called him half Miguel Torga and half Nicanor Parra (both of whom would also be new to me). I found it interesting that Torga also was a pseudonym and the discussion group highlighted Gullar's exile for 20 years. The only value in living through dictatorship and oppression is that forges extraordinary people, for that is what Nelson Mandela said in "The Long Walk to Freedom", that apartheid as an oppressive system turned ordinary men into extraordinary human beings - and when he was released he thanked his guards, because attaining freedom is one thing, but the long walk to freedom has its own value, and if we don't remember that, we tend to forget the sacrifice involved. I can see that Gullar also took that walk just from just a few days of learning about this man and his work. I also noted The Camões Prize - in that in receiving that award people in Portugal were introduced to a Brazilian Portuguese icon, so I found it interesting that a country that shares the same language would be slow in acclaiming such greatness. I can see from the poems translated to English in the discussion group, just how powerful they are. Responder

#3
Verdade, Marcos Vinicius Fernandes Ferreira! Responder

#1
Obrigado digo eu, por tê-lo como leitor. Responder

Thank you for introducing this Brazilian writer to me in your poignantly drawn tribute to him. Such is the speed of life, many of us get introduced to a writer and thinker at the time of their obituary - but then at least we became aware, which is still important. Overview from Plus 55 : http://plus55.com/culture/2016/12/ferreira-gullar-brazilian-writer A more extensive tribute at Hyperallergic : http://hyperallergic.com/342834/remembering-brazilian-poet-and-art-critic-ferreira-gullar/ Responder