Book, Into the Fast Night[LS]

Released in 1975, this volume of poems by Ferreira Gullar is marked by an intense political charge. By combining exceptional literary quality and acute concern with social issues, Into the Fast Night is a highly engaging book. In famous poems such as “No vacancies” and “Common man”, Ferreira Gullar, in a questioning and restless tone, denounces the cruel and unequal reality of the country. In the preface to this edition, Armando Freitas Filho points out: “This is what this immense book shows us: life, adventure, the danger of the universe that invites us into the existential adventure of each one of us. No one better than Ferreira Gullar to make us live and die, with his human and fearless experience that passes through this fierce and fast-moving night, always ready for a new and — if necessary — combative morning.”