SEVEN LIVES OF SILVANO CORRÊA
I met Silvano Corrêa at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when we were both undergraduates in the late 1950s. Born in Brazil and now living in São Paulo , Silvano has been my friend for almost seventy years. I have always regarded him as an honest, upright, optimistic, idealistic, and God-fearing man. I have had a few disappointments in friendship over the years, but with Silvano, I have always felt safe. Some time ago, he sent me, in book form, a collection of letters he had written to Brazilian newspapers, decrying the state of affairs in his country and in the world at large. Minhas Cartas, expressões de um idealista is a compilation of his views on government, politics, and society in general. Silvano has now published his memoirs, Seven Lives of Silvano: one story, seven ways, just one purpose (Amazon Books, 2026), in which he recounts his different stays in Brazil and the United States. This is, to my mind, a fine memoir of a bilingual and bicultural man and ...