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Como tudo começou: a história e 35 histórias dos 35 anos da Oficina de Criação Literária da PUCRS
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 179

Como tudo começou: a história e 35 histórias dos 35 anos da Oficina de Criação Literária da PUCRS

Este livro conta a história de vários inícios. Primeiro, o início da Oficina de Criação Literária da PUCRS, que completa anos em – a mais longeva em funcionamento no país. O surgimento da Oficina está retratado num saboroso artigo de Luís Roberto Amabile e num instigante perfil escrito por Fred Linardi sobre Luiz Antonio de Assis Brasil. Ministrada desde a primeira edição por Assis Brasil, a Oficina exerce papel importante em nosso sistema literário, revelando, a cada ano, novos escritores. Pensando nisso, este livro também reúne contos publicados, quase todos, em antologias da Oficina. E assim, como ressalta Gabriela Richinitti na introdução a esta "antologia das antologias", aqui se encontram os inícios de carreira de vários nomes fundamentais da literatura brasileira contemporânea.

Amora
  • Language: en

Amora

From an emerging talent comes an exquisite collection of stories exploring the complexity of love between women, each a delicate piece in a mosaic transcending the boundaries of literary romance. Amora dares explore the way women love each other--the atrophy and healing of the female spirit in response to sexual desire and identity. These thirty-three short stories and poems, crafted with a deliberate delicacy, each capture the candid, private moments of women in love. Together, these stories and the women who inhabit them reveal an illuminating portrait of the sacred female romance, with all its nuances, complexities, burdens, and triumphs revealed. Violence, sickness, chaos, tenderness, be...

Collaborative Translation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Collaborative Translation

For centuries, the art of translation has been misconstrued as a solitary affair. Yet, from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, groups of translators comprised of specialists of different languages formed in order to transport texts from one language and culture to another. Collaborative Translation uncovers the collaborative practices occluded in Renaissance theorizing of translation to which our individualist notions of translation are indebted. Leading translation scholars as well as professional translators have been invited here to detail their experiences of collaborative translation, as well as the fruits of their research into this neglected form of translation. This volume offers in-depth...

Diary of the Fall
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 197

Diary of the Fall

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-04-16
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  • Publisher: Random House

A powerful and heartbreaking novel about love, guilt and memory -- and the stories we choose to tell about ourselves and each other. 'I often dreamed about the moment of the fall, a silence that lasted a second, possibly two, a room full of sixty people and no one making a sound, as if everyone were waiting for my classmate to cry out... but he lay on the ground with his eyes closed.' A schoolboy prank goes horribly wrong, and a thirteen-year-old boy is left injured. Years later, one of the classmates relives the episode as he tries to come to terms with his demons. Diary of the Fall is the story of three generations: a man examining the mistakes of his past, and his struggle for forgiveness; a father with Alzheimer's, for whom recording every memory has become an obsession; and a grandfather who survived Auschwitz, filling notebook after notebook with the false memories of someone desperate to forget. Beautiful and brave, Michel Laub's novel asks the most basic -- and yet most complex -- questions about history and identity, exploring what stories we choose to tell about ourselves and how we become the people we are."

Blood-Drenched Beard
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Blood-Drenched Beard

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-01
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

Blood-Drenched Beard is the gripping, visceral English-language debut from Daniel Galera. His father shoots himself, and all he's left with is the old cattle dog and a vague desire for explanation. He loves swimming so he drifts south to Garopaba, a quiet little town on the Brazilian coast, where his grandfather disappeared in mysterious, possibly brutal, circumstances decades before. There, in the midst of romantic flings and occasional trips, he comes to discover more than he could ever have imagined - not just about his grandfather, but also about himself. Praise for Daniel Galera: 'Outstandingly powerful'- Estado de Sao Paulo 'The writer who has evolved more than any other of his generation'- NoMinimo Daniel Galera was born in Sao Paulo in 1979. He co-founded the influential publishing house Livros do Mal, and has translated David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith and Irvine Welsh into Brazilian Portuguese. He has published a collection of short stories and three novels, as well as an acclaimed graphic novel (with Rafael Coutinho).

Twenty After Midnight
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Twenty After Midnight

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-08-11
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  • Publisher: Penguin

A dark and masterful portrait of a generation in crisis, from one of the most exciting young voices in international literature The world had been theirs in the late 90s: they were the young provocateurs behind a countercultural scene, digital bohemians creating a new future. But fifteen years later, Duke, the leader and undisputed genius of their group, has been murdered, and the three remaining members of their circle reunite to piece together what became of their lives and how they fell so short of their expectations. Now in their thirties, Aurora, Antero, and Emiliano have succumbed to the pressures of adulthood, the exigencies of carving out a life in a country that is fraying at the se...

We All Loved Cowboys
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

We All Loved Cowboys

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-11
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Two women take a road trip through Brazil in an exploration of identity, desire, and the limitations and possibilities of female sexuality.

Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy

An analytical account of the central topics of Nietzsche's epistemology and metaphysics, includes his views on truth and language, his perspectivism, and his doctrines of the will-to-power and the eternal recurrence.

The Affirmation of Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 327

The Affirmation of Life

While most recent studies of Nietzsche's works have lost sight of the fundamental question of the meaning of a life characterized by inescapable suffering, Bernard Reginster's book The Affirmation of Life brings it sharply into focus. Reginster identifies overcoming nihilism as a central objective of Nietzsche's philosophical project, and shows how this concern systematically animates all of his main ideas.

The Routledge Companion to Ethics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 972

The Routledge Companion to Ethics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-06-21
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Ethics is an outstanding survey of the whole field of ethics by a distinguished international team of contributors. Over 60 chapters are divided into six clear sections: the history of ethics meta-ethics perspectives from outside ethics ethical perspectives morality debates in ethics. The Companion opens with a comprehensive historical overview of ethics, including chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Hume, and Kant, and ethical thinking in China, India and the Arabic tradition. The second part covers the domain of meta-ethics. The third part covers important challenges to ethics from the fields of anthropology, psychology, sociobiology and economics. The fourth and fifth...