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Jerusalem
"One morning late in May, between three and six A.M., a group of lonely men and women wait to be brought together, like the elements in an equation. Ernst Spengler is about to throw himself out his window. Mylia, terminally ill and in enormous pain, goes out to visit a church. Hinnerk Obst, who's always been told by the neighborhood children that he looks like a murderer, walks the streets with a loaded gun. As these characters are manipulated and brought together, a world of violence, fear, pain, and uncertainty is portrayed, where human nature itself, and the mechanisms determining our actions, our fictions, and the elements of our imagination, are laid bare. Jerusalem is a terrifying and grimly humorous summation of the possibilities and limits of the human condition at the beginning of the 21st century." --Book Jacket.
Plague Diary
Plague Diary is a series of daily journals documenting time spent during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reading is Walking
"There is an unmistakable narrative voice, or poetic voice, or literary style, or aesthetic project, or epistemological refusal common to all of the Notebooks of Gonçalo M. Tavares." Translator Rhett McNeil
Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique
The second installment in Tavares's acclaimed "Kingdom" series.
A Voyage to India
A Voyage to India is the story of Bloom, our hero, as he makes his way from Lisbon to India in a decidedly non-heroic age. Gone are the galleons, gone is god; so too the swords of the swashbuckler and sacerdotal certainty. In such an era, where is wisdom to be found? Bloom—ever deliberate, ever longwinded—takes his time getting to India, stopping first in London, then Paris and elsewhere in Europe, making friends, encountering enemies, recounting his life story, revealing the reasons for his flight from Lisbon and his vague hopes for and nagging fears about what he might find in India. Or within himself. His is a melancholic itinerary, an attempt to learn and forget. As our narrator flatly declares: “Life proceeds and is monstrous.” Parodying The Lusiads, Luis de Camões’s sixteenth-century Portuguese epic of seafaring exploration and naval prowess, Tavares’s poem is a solemn requiem of sorts, an investigation into the psyche of humankind in a world where the advance of technology outpaces our ability (or desire) to theorize it, the search for wisdom has been abandoned, and old imperialist dreams have revealed themselves to be a postcolonial nightmare.
Joseph Walser's Machine
Continuing Tavares's award-winning "Kingdom" series (begun in Jerusalem, winner of the Saramago Prize), Joseph Walser's Machine recounts a life of bizarre routines and patterns. Routine humiliation at a factory; routine maintenance of the world's most esoteric collection; and the most important routine of all: the operation of a mysterious machine on a factory floor. Yet all of Joseph Walser's routines are violently disrupted when his city is occupied by an invading army, leaving him faced with political intrigues, marital discord, and finally, one last, catastrophic confrontation with his beloved machine.
Short movies
Short movies é composto de pequenas cenas cotidianas, nas quais o autor exerce sua maior qualidade: a de observador. Como uma câmera, ele captura momentos de beleza e absurdo, retratados com extrema originalidade e singeleza. É o mundo que todos conhecem, mas visto da maneira como só Gonçalo M. Tavares é capaz.
Gonçalo M.Tavares
A ideia deste livro surgiu do desejo de dar a conhecer aos leitores de língua portuguesa um conjunto de ensaios críticos que contemplem a multiplicidade de suas criações e funcionem como exercícios de aproximação desta obra singular e polifônica. Para isso foram convidados dez ensaístas, cinco brasileiros e cinco portugueses, que puderam se debruçar livremente sobre textos, coleções ou aspectos da obra do autor. O resultado acabou por constituir um amplo painel crítico desta trajetória, oferecendo ao leitor muitas possibilidades de aproximação e contato com a poética tavariana.
Klaus Klump: a Man
The final installment in Gon'alo M. Tavares's "Kingdom" cycle to be translated into English, "Klaus Klump: A Man" is a harrowing portrait of a man without values, making his way through a world almost as immoral. Klaus takes care of the family business; he doesn't feel fear, hunger, or love. Klaus plays a game, and this game and its object consist of one thing: making money. No matter who you are, Klaus thinks, there is only one thing of importance: to win rather than lose.
