Esa gente

After being awarded the prestigious Camões Prize for his literary career, the celebrated composer, musician, poet and novelist Chico Buarque invites us to peek into the life of Manuel Duarte, a historical novel writer who had his moment of glory in the decade From the nineties and now, with his bank account in the red, he tries in vain to write the book he owes to his publishers. While enjoying his peripatetic walks through the elegant streets of his neighborhood, Leblon, or visiting the neighboring favela of Viridal, we travel through a Rio de Janeiro that, in an increasingly evident way, bows and bleeds under the lash of social injustice. and economic: a black musician shot by the police, a decree that makes the use of firearms more flexible, a violently repressed demonstration or lavish parties of the new political caste flood the newspapers. Buarque offers us, as a puzzle and from multiple voices and perspectives, his most poignant novel and shows us, with his usual ironic gaze, the tragicomic ramblings of a writer in crisis and the fragmented memory of Bolsonaro's maddened Brazil.