Written from the point of view of the common man, Nelson Rodrigues' chronicle founds a bordering voice between the trivial and the singular and realizes an antiintellectualistic profession of faith. The city of Rio de Janeiro, the most well-known Brazilian landscape during the sixties and seventies, works as the protagonist in every Nelson Rodrigues text and the use of language is intended to recreate its sites. The artist unfolds his totalizing imagination in symmetrical and opposite dimensions: the pornographical and the mystical. In a renewed praxis of the totalizing thoughts, the reactionary's dramatization in Brazilian public sphere of the sixties constitutes a ritualistic response to the idealizations of the leftist revolutionary, a common figure on that period.
chronicle; Rio de Janeiro; Nelson Rodrigues