Writings
Luiz Pacheco published many of his writings in Contraponto, mainly short stories and critical texts concerning Portuguese literature. He wrote thousands of letters to friends with enormous literary value and many of them were published in different books. Comunidade, O Libertino passeia por Braga, a idolátrica, o seu esplendor and Teodolito are his most acclaimed books. Pacheco versus Cesariny is an 'epistolary novel' of the surrealist movement in Portugal. His frontal way of analysing a work was feared by many. Fernando Namora, a known Portuguese writer, is an example of this: Luiz Pacheco heard something about some coincidences in two books by Fernando Namora and Virgilio Ferreira. Deciding to decipher the mystery, he bought every edition of the two books he could lay his hands on and compared, to find out if these were coincidences and, if not, who copied whom. The result was published by the name of O Caso do Sonâmbulo Chupista. Most of his books are currently not available in book stores. Here is an incomplete list of his published works.
- História antiga e conhecida (1956) - republished in ‘Crítica de circunstância’ in 2002 as ‘Os doutores, a salvação e o menino Jesus’
- Caca, cuspo & Ramela (1958)- with Natália Correia and Manuel de Lima
- Carta-Sincera a José Gomes Ferreira (1959)
- O Teodolito (1962)
- Comunidade (1964)
- Coro de escárnio e lamentação dos cornudos em volta de S.Pedro (1966)
- Crítica de Circunstância (1966)
- Textos Locais (1967)
- O Libertino Passeia por Braga, a Idolátrica, o Seu Esplendor (1970)
- Exercícios de estilo (1971)
- Literatura comestível (1972)
- Pacheco versus Cesariny - folhetim de feição epistolográfica (1974)
- Textos de Circunstância (1977)
- Carta a Gonelha (1977)
- Textos Malditos (1977)
- Textos de Guerrilha 1 (1979)
- O Caso das Criancinhas Desaparecidas (1981)
- Textos de Guerrilha 2 (1981)
- Textos do Barro (1985)
- O Teodolito e a velha casa (1985)
- Textos Sadinos (1991)
- Carta a Fátima (1992)
- O uivo do coiote (1992)
- Memorando, Mirabolando (1995)
- Cartas na mesa: 1966-1996 (1996)
- Prazo de validade (1998)
- Isto de estar vivo (2000)
- Uma admirável droga (2001)
- Mano forte (2002)
- Os doutores, a salvação e o menino Jesus (2002)
- Raio de Luar (2003)
- Figuras, figurantes e figurões (2004)
- Diário remendado 1971-1975 (2005)
- Cartas ao léu (2005)
- O crocodilo que voa (2008) - interviews
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