Luiz Carlos Maciel, great figure of the 60s, in bookstores – 04/29/2023 – Elio Gaspari
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“Underground”, a collection of 72 texts by Luiz Carlos Maciel (1938-2017), a Bahia born in Rio Grande do Sul, a great figure of national culture in the 60s of the last century, arrived at bookstores.
Maciel was an erudite radical. As he himself recounts in his introduction, written in 2004: “It is no wonder that, under such circumstances, so many people became very mad. In fact, we sympathized with madness; for us, it was normal”.
In September 1968, Caetano Veloso, with his crazy clothes and his tropical music, was booed by young people at the Tuca theater, in São Paulo. The good norm applauded sambões.
Days later, Maciel wrote: “To the artist who questioned, with his art, their bourgeois world, they squarely accused of ‘pederasty’. (…) Fascist irrationalism does not need reasons; panic is enough. The jeunesse dorée has fear of Caetano Veloso; it is easier to dance irresponsibly with a portrait of ‘Che’ Guevara than to face his truths. Deep down, his politics and his aesthetics —to touch on a question raised by Caetano himself— are one and the same thing .”
Months later, Caetano and Gilberto Gil were arrested and exiled to London. When Gil released his album with “Aquele Abraço”, Maciel was brief: “I can only advise that the reader run out to buy the record and listen to it. Now”.
In the weekly newspaper Pasquim, to which he was a regular contributor, in 1971 Maciel wrote about the Cannabis sativaBob Dylan, Bertrand Russell, Paulo Francis (“our best prophet”), sex, long hair and Martin Heidegger.
Maciel did theater, cinema, television and journalism. In the 1960s, he was a radical and cosmopolitan voice, with all that it meant to be culturally radical at the time. The collection organized by Claudio Leal exposes his characteristic: in the midst of much joy with some debauchery, he was serious.
New Times
Senator Eduardo Girão took a brilliant backlash from Minister Silvio Almeida, of Human Rights, when he wanted to stage a buffoonery by presenting him with a doll of a fetus.
On the same day, Minister Nunes Marques, of the Federal Supreme Court, took a backlash from his colleague Cármen Lúcia when he addressed women’s rights with a tone of paternal boron.
Times change.
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