Para Paulo Francis, com amor e sordidez: o naufrágio político da geração '60.

This paper investigates the career of the Brazilian journalist-essayist Paulo Francis (1930-1997), the reasons for his influence and for the change in his political stance towards an ever more extreme rightist position. It takes Francis' case-history as a tool allowing discussion on the role and political evolution of middle-class intellectuals in Brazil and worldwide from the mid-20th. Century to the present - and, in the specific Brazilian context, from the military dictatorship towards neoliberal re-democratization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]