Rodrigo Alvarez launches a novel in which the protagonist brings about a change in the politics of the past capable of “avoiding what is happening now”
On Instagram the journalist and writer Rodrigo Alvarez, former international correspondent of Globo, complained about an attitude of Jair Bolsonaro. “Blocked by the president. Right? I just published a book called O Candidato, a satirical fiction about Brazil, and candidate @jairmessiasbolsonaro blocks me on Twitter. Literature and humor were never his strengths … that’s true, “he posted. At the end of the message, the journalist included in the elections the arroba of the main opponents of the president: Lula, Ciro and Simone Tebet.
Former Globo journalism host Izabella Camargo, fired during treatment for burnout syndrome, was one of the first to comment. “I am not surprised by this behavior (by Bolsonaro) … And it made me want to pass it on in front of the others I need to read.” In ‘O Candidato’ (Editora Citadel), Rodrigo Alvarez shows a Brazil with democracy at risk. The people need a savior of the homeland. An unlikely candidate emerges to free the country from the clutches of bad politicians, capable of avoiding the military coup of 1964 and changing the course of history. There is a link between past and present, between situations created by the author and facts. It is a creative fiction that flirts with the biography of this Brazilian novelist.
Jair Bolsonaro probably didn’t find indirect (or not-so-indirect) criticism of his public persona and government amusing for being angered to the point of blocking the writer. Rodrigo Alvarez left Globo and GloboNews at the end of 2019. He is dedicated to literature. Among his best sellers are works on Jesus, Maria and Nossa Senhora Aparecida.
Source: Terra
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