In 2012, the chronicler opened the doors of the house and heart to talk about jazz, football and life without haste in an unforgettable conversation
LUIS FERNANDO VERISSIMOHe died on Saturday (30), at the age of 88, in Porto Alegre, a victim of complications resulting from pneumonia. The most beloved chronicler in Brazil makes us an immense legacy of intelligent humor and right observation of everyday life. To remember his human and charismatic figure, we republished excerpts from the conversations he had with the Rolling Stone Brazil In 2012, when he received us at his home and revealed his passion for jazz, football and simple life.
“Okay, did you?” The phrase echoed in the small radio studio minima.fm in October 2012. It was Luís Fernando Veríssimo Closing his program about jazz, the same man who days later opened his home in Petrópolis to talk to the magazine.
Barefoot, comfortably sitting in a red armchair, Veríssimo He revealed himself as few saw him: a man who “hears a lot and speaks little,” but when he speaks, each word has the exact measure. That winter morning, the 76 -year -old writer showed that his genius went far beyond printed pages.
“The music came before the writing,” he confessed. He learned Saxophone at 16-17, long before he dreamed of being a writer. It was in the United States that lived the golden period of the American jazz, seeing Charlie Parker, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong in the legendary clubs of New York.
About your group Jazz 6it was humble as always: “All musicians are professional, the only amateur is me.” Already about football, the passion for International was born of a peculiar logic: “As I had helped to win the war for democracy, I would not cheer for the Germans” Guildwhich at the time had a strong connection with the German community of Porto Alegre and did not accept black players). When provoked about his gremista father, he said, “This is something we don’t comment here at home.”
“I love a phrase from ZUENIR VENTURA: He doesn’t like to write, likes to have written. The act of writing does not give me much pleasure. It is good to have written. “The confession revealed the less romantic side of literary creation.
But it was talking about the granddaughter Lucinda that proved more human. “One way to prepare it for what is coming is to form a solidarity person,” said the optimistic grandfather. The 4-year-old arrived during the interview, “wide a smile, one of those of making anyone feel optimistic.”
“This house is a maze,” he said as he conducted the reporter to the gate. But there was no maze – just the simplicity of those who knew exactly where it was.
In those hours at the Petrópolis House, the Rolling Stone He captured the essence of a man who turned observation into art and silence into wisdom. A genius of the word who preferred to live in a smaller tone, finding poetry in everyday life.
The complete materials of MARCELO FERLA and Stella Rodrigues continue available on the website of Rolling Stone Brazil And you can read below, a precious record of the thoughts and memories of those who have taught us that sometimes the rest is really silence.
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