Orgia. Os Diários de Tulio Carella, Recife 1960

Product description In portuguese language, a translation from the spanish original made by the Brazilian author Hermilo Borba Filho. These diaries covers the period that the argentinian writer Tulio Carella lived in the city of Recife, northeast of Brasil, between 1960 and 1962. He reffers aspects of the political and social ambiance, with struggles between left and right parties, on the edge of the Brazilian dictatorship regime (1964). In the hot an humid great city in the coast of the Atlantic, Carella teaches Theater in the State University of Pernambuco. He decided to left behind, in Buenos Aires, his wife and a brilliant career as dramaturgist and essayist. But he is alone and begins to discover the people of the Brazilian Norheast by encounters with dozens of mans, specially black people, attracted by de different manners and the soft white skin of the argentinian. About the Author Tulio Carella was born in the city of Mercedes (Argentina) and spent the most important part of his life in Buenos Aires, where he died in 1979, pursued by the Argentinian dictatorship, for his liberal political position and for his bisexual condition. Docent in Argentinian and Brazilian universities in Arts an Theater. Autor of more than 20 books, with proeminent essays on the platense culture (or cultura portenha), as Tango, Mito y Esencia. Laureated for his plays, he became also a critic and articulist in newspapers and revues like the prestigious Sur.