Problems of biographical writing in The Knight of Hope

Vida de Luiz Carlos Prestes encompasses half of the life lived by Prestes, who bravely survived to Vargas's government and the dissolution of the Communist Party". In order to write at least two chapters of his biography on Luiz Carlos Prestes, the brazilian writer Jorge Amado makes use of material extracted from the cronological interval between the years of 1935 and 1942: in chapters 4 and 5, we'll find specific topics, such as political torture, that deserve a study on their own, since these topics may ensure a further understanding on the subject. The outrageous actions perpetrated by political police were supposed to be abolished in 1945, when his government came to an end. However, dictatorship and its nasty effects on the political scenario can be traced further.