The politician who was a writer or the writer who was a politician? The political trajectory of Carlos Lacerda (1964-1977)

Abstract

Carlos Lacerda's trajectory is sometimes confused between politics and his literary productions. His works, although not entirely uniform, were almost always political subjects. Lacerda was one of the great names of conservative politics, with a certain liberal nature, of the 20th century. Some relevant works by this character will be discussed, to defend the hypothesis that Lacerdist literature was being made on purpose to expose his conceptions about the current policy, even in the midst of censorship imposed by the military. In summary, it is of interest here to build the trajectory of Lacerda's political discourse after the military coup, using, however, the literary works of the subject included here for study.