Prophets of the past

The controversial national political moment analyzed in interviews with 28 opinion leaders. In "Prophets of the Past," Jalusa Barcellos proposes a prophetic study of the current—and worrying—Brazilian political situation. Based on 28 interviews with some of the country's leading opinion leaders and intellectuals, Jalusa masterfully and brilliantly stimulates debate in every segment of Brazilian thought, eliciting from each interviewee their opinions, feelings, ideas, disappointments, and hopes regarding the current controversial political moment. Above all, he instigates and highlights the contradictions of such a fragile moment as the one Brazil is currently experiencing.