The work tells the story of the artist, who was a staunch critic of the military dictatorship and participated in the country's redemocratization process. Written by one of Brazil's most important biographers, this book shows how Henfil grew and lived to become one of the greatest artists of his generation and how the characters he created were born. *The Rebel of the Line* is also one of the best period pieces the genre has ever produced about the 1970s and 1980s, when the country made the transition from suffocation to liberalization, experiencing what one of the dictators of the time called a slow, gradual, and safe transition. There's no shortage of anecdotes and stories. Here are all the conflicts, affections, and disaffections of those uncertain times: the controversies, the fights, the fads, and the gossip. Pasquim and its gang, the censorship, the torture, the resistance, the light at the end of the tunnel, the fight for amnesty, the direct elections, Tancredo, the ideological patrols, and, for better or worse, democracy. Zuenir Ventura.
