Prose

"Vinicius de Moraes has already had biographies, profiles, an epistolary, compilations of record and film chronicles, not to mention his own books of poetry and song lyrics, but why not also perpetuate his phrases?, asks journalist Maria Lucia Rangel, who pored over newspapers, magazines, interviews, chronicles, letters and notes to reveal a not so well-known side of the famous author of the "Fidelity Sonnet". Love, passion, sex, marriage, divorce, family, partnership. new, poetry, literature, cinema, arts. Brazil, politics, national identity. Whether hilarious or melancholic, these phrases bring the insightful, captivating and absolutely frank look of one of the fundamental voices in the formation of our culture.