Dois casos de cerceamento à circulação de livros no Brasil no ano de 2021: o expurgo da Fundação Palmares e a falsificação de postagens do Padre Lancelotti

Abstract

This study discusses the issue of book censorship focusing specifically on two cases of hindering the circulation of books that occurred in Brazil in 2021, the third year of Jair Bolsonaro's far-right federal government. These cases used different strategies: in the first one, the Palmares foundation, there was censorship of books for preventing their circulation by pusing copies of a public library; and in the second, the case of the posting of Father Júlio Lancellotti, there was electronic manipulation of information in which the indication of a book was eliminated and replaced by another indication with an antagonistic sense to the initial proposition. In both cases – one of physical restraint and the other of digital adulteration – the authoritarian intention is explicit: the objective of the actions is and to eliminate the books and ideas defended in them from the public space, so that the ideas that the undemocratic authoritarians propagate are the only ones disseminated.