Books recommended by Caetano Veloso

Caetano Veloso is one of the most important composers and performers of Brazilian popular music, a central figure of the Tropicália movement that emerged in the 1960s. Besides his musical career, he works as an essayist and intellectual, reflecting on culture, politics, and art.

The reading list he recommends reveals a reader of dense, canonical works of world and national literature. From Dostoevsky to James Joyce, passing through Clarice Lispector and Lima Barreto, the repertoire combines the great European novel with the most demanding Brazilian prose — a profile consistent with someone who thinks about artistic creation through solid and diverse literary references.