It was exactly this implicit awareness of the immorality of "existing" social relations - the portrayal of the bourgeois family as both sacred and failed - that didn't endear Nelson Rodrigues to fellow conservatives: after reading "Album de Família", his close friend, the poet Manuel Bandeira, offered him the advice to try his hand at writing about "normal people". in 1957, a conservative Rio de Janeiro councilman, present at the opening night of Rodrigues' play "Perdoa-me por me traíres" (Forgive me for cheating on me) pointed a gun at the applauding audience for condoning what he regarded as an immoral play. During the military dictatorship, Rodrigues' 1966 novel "O Casamento", about a middle-aged businessman who gradually realizes his incestuous love towards his daughter on the eve of her wedding, was withdrawn from circulation by government censorship for alleged indecency.