In an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone Brasil, Paulo Coelho comments on the Raul Seixas series: the Sou Globoplay and remember young people; Check!
With over 350 million copies sold in the world, Paulo Coelho Not only the number of the second most read Brazilian author has exceeded large scale, Jorge AmadoBut it was also consecrated as one of the 25 best -selling writers of all time. However, the real culminating point is not only in statistics, but in the place it occupies among the great names of universal literature, regardless of language.
His books are available in over 170 countries, translated into dozens of languages, occupying public and private shelves of libraries and bookstores around the planet. This global presence puts him next to giants such as Shakespeare, Cervantes, Tolstoy, Camps, Saint-Exupéry, Borges and Twain. As I would say Zagallocritics, regardless of whether they must swallow.
But Paulo Coelho It is more than an editorial phenomenon. Still in life, unlike many authors who obtain this status only after death, he continues to produce, live and be rediscovered by new auditions. His impact goes beyond literature: he has also made the history of music. Before winning the world as a novelist, it was Letrist, and not with no partner, but with one of the greatest myths of Brazilian music, Raul Seixas.
This facet of the author had strength thanks to the series Raul Seixas: I amRecently launched by Globoplay. The production, which quickly reached the top of the most observed platform, carefully and intensity of the trajectory of the Rocker Bahian. And with it, the memory of his creative alliance rekindles Paoloor Pautete, as he was called by his friend.
Also always present in the cultural radar, Paulo Coelho He gained new media breaths with the success of the plot. Millions of marathon the episodes, including the author himself, who saw the eight chapters simultaneously, as he said to Chat Rolling Stone Brazil.
The declaration has surprised the fans since then Paolo He had moved away from the spotlight and interviews from the pandemic, he immersed himself in a period of harvesting and contemplation in Geneva, where he lived for a decade, after years in the Pyrenees, in search of the spirituality of the Virgin of Lourdes.
Take a look at an interview extract Paulo Coelho THE Rolling Stone Brazil:
Paolo, did you like the series?
“Yes, yes. Look, when I just looked, I started crying, because it was very faithful except something.”
Which?
“When I left the prison, I did not go to Raul’s house, on the contrary. Everyone disappeared at that moment … but for the rest, it was very faithful, even the thing of the call is true.”
Was this this loyalty of the series that made him cry?
“Here, friend, I said:” Poring* In those years I spent with Raul, I lived a lot. “
Seeing your youth to spend, he moved to tears. Was that?
“Yes. The waitress who was at home asked,” are you crying why? “I said” because I just saw the show, by the way, you have to see. “Then he said,” Ah, I’ll see him. “
Let’s go back. That meeting on the beach, Paulo. Is it real and true? Have you seen the flying jug or not?
“Yes, and I think we saw. I don’t remember well. There are many series that I don’t remember well, but yes. I approached the only guy on the beach, which was him, and we saw what we at least thought was a flying saucer.”
That is, did you really know each other?
“On the beach, it’s”.
Because on the show, Raul’s woman is apparently who advises him to look for a partner, in this case, to work with you. And he initially doubted to make partnership.
“Of course. Because it was music and music was finally, finally, second class. So, for me, a classic intellectual of those years, I was very happy if nobody understood me. I didn’t want to be understood, I wanted to be complicated. Being a genius is always complicated. Until Raul … he really has this merit.
Did this reflection of Raul really approached them generated the partnership? Was this the spark?
“The spark was that I needed announcements. So, I said,” Wow, I go to dinner with this boy, the label, because I could get an announcement with him. “And then I saw the song, I showed the songs, especially those Oh! You!
The need for the announcement includes, ok. But the spark was that song. And the label?
“I was very impressed, because it was a world totally different from me. Well, then on the label there were snacks, you know? I said: ‘The boy has snacks … they are offering me snacks, what a horror!'”
Laugh…
“And I’m going to finish, right? Getting out with a guarantee that I would have had an announcement, what I could not. But I heard the song he showed me. I said:” What an interesting boy. “The partnership has come of course. I cannot specify you how it was evolving. But it was about to chat. Speaking of zucchini. The separation was the prison, the only thing that is not faithful of the series.”
This chapter, of course, scored you a lot. Do you think he dedicated you when they questioned it?
“No. There is a biography that says yes, but no. I don’t think. I was arrested at the old days. I was arrested and loose and I wanted to leave the country he had to go to Dops to explain why I wanted to leave the country. Then I went and once a boy there, in Dops, I put this way to see the result, right?
Let’s go back to the series. Have you felt perfectly represented by the actor João Pedro Zappa? Because his voice is the same as yours.
“Incredible, right? I also thought it was an artificial intelligence, but no. I liked the boy too much. I was very surprised that his voice was like this, you know? Very similar to mine. And the gestures, the lines.”
Have you ever communicated with the actor? Did you look for you before filming?
“Nothing. I also read an interview in which he said he didn’t want to be influenced, but he didn’t look for me. Now Netflix will make a series on my first book,” The Diary of a Wizard “, and the actor came to me. It will be Rodrigo Santoro.”
And Ravel Andrade, the actor who represents Raul? It seems to represent it very well.
“Of course! I look at that boy and I see Raul.”
Did you say it with the director of the series, Paulo Morelli?
“No. I tried to speak with the director, I could not. But to thank. I think thanking him is an important thing. Fernando Meirelles, of the manufacturer O2, wrote and thanked me. At the same time I said that I had loved the series. And everyone was waiting for me to position me, if I loved him.”
Paolo, you did not consider music and, therefore, obviously you did not make music texts until you reach this case with Raul, but poetry: have you already written or not?
“Once someone wrote the following sentence:” My poetic vein hurt me. “So I decided not to write poems, only books. But the books were illegible, I couldn’t even read, I wanted to be misunderstood.”
Do you have any copy of the 2001 magazine?
“Good question. I don’t think [Christina acredita que ainda conservam um exemplar, prometeu procurar. “Mas até achar isso vai ser impossível”, disse Paulo a Christina]”.
That pseudonym you used, Augusto Figueiredo, the Raul person went to look for the 2001 editorial staff, where did you get from?
“I invented several false names. In the second number, out of a total of two, Raul appears as a collaborator.”
Was the flying jug already incorporated into you two? Because it was a time when we all saw a flying saucer. This is the truth. It was a fantasy of the time.
“Until today I am able to say, make sure they have not seen one, but several flying records. For example, Christina and I went to spend 40 days in the desert. And I can swear that I had seen three flying saucers.”
So these flying records were not hallucinations of youth drugs? But have they released so much musical creativity or not?
“They released. I wore drugs and I found everything magnificent, everything I wrote was a show. Everything was perfect, and it was all a drug … so they released the bad part – we don’t judge, but a side that had nothing to do.”
That is, without drugs, would you have been the same triumphs that went at that moment?
“I think so”.
Or maybe, without them, they would have gone further?
“Yes … but what killed Raul, and the series is very good, is the only drug released that is alcohol. Alcohol killed him. It is impressive.”
In the series, it always appears as the most controlled of the two. In every respect, you are a bit of his thread. Was it like that?
“It was so. I think the series is very faithful to that aspect.”
Do you also sing in a show or did you sing in more than one?
“Only in the stick [extinta casa de shows do Rio de Janeiro]”.
But have you never passed your head as a singer?
“No! It was through the head of the label managers, who, after Raul left, should play as a singer. I said:” Are you crazy? “It wasn’t mine.”
At this time when Raul has been away four years, practically without registration, nor be called, and the label puts you to help other artists, like Rita Lee, did you also have chemistry? Has it worked? Or do you think the Raul stamp was too impregnated with you?
“What happened is that making music with other singers gave me money. I needed this money. Mercenario.”
Speaking of money, now with this show, have you had any information if the songs play more? Has the sale of your books increased?
“I don’t know about the sale of books because the series is very recent, right? But Roberto Menesscal called me and said that the songs played again. Which means that I will eventually receive more money for the execution.”
So Paul, receive copyright today.
“It is incredible. Even before the series, I received an annual average of … now I can’t swear. You have two types of copyright: execution and sale of discs, ok? The sale of records no longer exists, I get execution. Before the series, I have already received a lot. I could live, if I wanted, only the rights to perform the songs with Raul.
But did you receive a lot from the sale of records, so for many years?
“Oh yes, but nowadays there is no more album, it has been something that ended totally. Like the printed book, the bookstores and so much.”
There has always been a presence of these songs, “Toca Raul”. Now quadruple will copyright tickets.
‘Maybe I don’t know. “
Raul Plínio’s brother, who appears a lot in childhood scenes, reappears only in the last chapter, has always been to Bahia. Was it someone who had frequent contact with Raul? Do you have to do with music? They look very close.
“I have never had much contact with Raul’s brother, but I think in the last chapter it is Sylvio Passos, his head of his fan club, right?”
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