Salvador Novo: Novo por Novo (2003)

Salvador Novo was more than just an avant garde writer who pertained to the group The Contemporaries. He was more than a literary figure who passed through all literary genres and left lasting works. He made himself into a character who found out how to threaten the falsely timid of his time as well as the machismo of the post-revolution in order to live in absolute balance with his desires. A friend of powerful people, a companion to many artists, an expert in culinary arts, a non-systematic historian, a chronicler of life, Novo was, above all, provoker and possessor of dazzling talent: poet, essayist, playwright, teacher. He alarmed many due to his conduct which was as intelligent as it was scandalous. Irony was his defense, words his weapon.