Book, Marighella: the guerrilla who set the world on fire[LS]

Book that inspired the film directed by Wagner Moura. Journalist Mário Magalhães reconstructs the turbulent trajectory of revolutionary Carlos Marighella, a member of the Brazilian Communist Party and founder of Ação Libertadora Nacional, the largest armed group opposing the military dictatorship (1964-85). The life of Carlos Marighella (1911-69) was as frenetic as it was surprising. A communist activist since his youth, constituent federal deputy and founder of the largest armed group opposing the military dictatorship - Ação Libertadora Nacional -, this mulatto from Salvador was also a prolific poet, an irreverent and playful man. In this narrative full of revelations, journalist Mário Magalhães investigates the various facets of the biographer. At a thriller pace, it reconstructs with disconcerting realism passages in prison, resistance to torture, espionage operations in the Cold War and guerrilla robberies of banks, armored cars and paying trains. But it also recovers the famous physics test answered in verses at Ginásio da Bahia and love poems. Marighella's controversial life is also a story of radical and leftist movements in Brazil and around the world. Important supporting characters, who touched on the protagonist's life, populate these pages: Fidel Castro, Getúlio Vargas, Che Guevara, Carlos Lacerda, Stálin, Luiz Carlos Prestes and Carlos Lamarca, as well as key cultural figures, such as writers Jorge Amado and Graciliano Ramos; the painters Cândido Portinari and Joan Miró; playwrights Augusto Boal and Dias Gomes; and filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Jean-Luc Godard and Luchino Visconti. Proclaimed by the military dictatorship as its number one enemy, the guerrilla was killed in a police ambush in São Paulo, on the night of November 4, 1969. This breathtaking biography presents unprecedented information about Marighella's trajectory and the troubled and passionate time in which he lived.