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“First bought, then burned,” Paulo Coelho wrote on his Twitter account, commenting on a video in which a couple of Jair Bolsonaro supporters ripped and burned a book by the Brazilian writer.
“And the boy’s mustache [vocabulário informal usado no Brasil para descrever pessoas do sexo masculino] it does not allow to hide the origin of the idea, ”he added, in a historical allusion to the figure of Adolf Hitler.
No. First they bought it, then they burned it. And the boy’s mustache does not hide the origin of the idea … https://t.co/AYZ9V3dzKW
– Paulo Coelho (@paulocoelho) September 29, 2020
Videos of people burning successful books by the Brazilian author, such as The Alchemist, published in 1988 and with more than 150 million copies sold in 70 languages, has proliferated in recent days among the followers of the Brazilian president.
In almost all the videos, Paulo Coelho is accused of being “communist”, “socialist” and “unpatriotic”, and is invited to live “in Cuba or Venezuela” for his critical stance on the Bolsonaro government.
Paulo Coelho laughs at his mansion because the money from the sale of the book already fell into his pocket a long time ago! https://t.co/uwHx873t60
– Mari (@maristrassximr) September 29, 2020
Paulo Coelho noted in another message on Twitter: “The burning of books refers to ritual destruction by fire and generally comes from cultural, religious or political opposition to the materials in question. The burning of books by the Nazi regime on 10 May 1933 is the most famous in history. “
Book burning: ritual destruction by burning books, and generally comes from a cultural, religious or political opposition to the materials in question.
Bottom: Hitler supporters, May 1933
MY 2 PREVIOUS POSTS: Bolsonaro Supporters, September 2020 pic.twitter.com/i09ulhz8MS– Paulo Coelho (@paulocoelho) September 29, 2020
Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947 and has lived for years in Geneva (Switzerland), where he has already established his residence.
Since 1982, when Hell Archives, his first book was published, the writer wrote about 20 titles.
In 2002, Paulo Coelho was appointed a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and since mid-2018, when it was intuited that the elections of that year would be won by Jair Bolsonaro, that the writer is against the advance of extreme right-wing movements. in Brazil and around the world.
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