His writing was unabashed, as much as the life he led and even merited a bibliography.
Must be one of the few Portuguese writers of which we can say without the slightest exaggeration that his life was greater than his work. Luiz Pacheco was best known for his irreverence and way of life utterly debauched and promiscuous, rather than the texts, although the literary quality of his writing is compelling. It was above all a baffling personality, best known for his personal life, his sexual adventures, and his marriages to teenage mothers (who has only parallel with the Marquis de Sade) instead of the published work by itself. He never intended to be a respectable person, quite the contrary has always fueled by the myth of the libertine with a largely unregulated, dissolute and almost immoral life. He was hypersensitive to alcohol, a beggar, ate in soup social kitchens, forged seals of the state and had a habit of borrowing money to friends who of course, he never repaid. Despite all these "weaknesses" of character, as the scholar Carlos Loures says, he earns a great respect of the literary community. What was not at all strange, considering that in his writing has always denounced the Salazar regime, but also longtime friends, as was the case of the celebrated clash with Fernando Namora who he accused of having plagiarized in his book, "Sunday afternoon" the "Appearance "of Virgilo Ferreira. And he helped found a publishing house, the counterpoint, which published great authors of the Portuguese language, as Herberto Helder, Natalia Correia, Mario Cesariny, Raul Leal, among others. His personal journey is as we use to say, my life is a movie ... banned until 30 years of age. Without exaggeration! However, what nobody can deny is that his reputation is mainly due to others. People have always been fascinated by his whole twisted world and have perpetuated of the myth the man that never give a dam about the rest of humanity. And the work stays to immortalize him.
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