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A Poison Apple
*Selected as one of the Best Books 2017 in the Financial Times* 'One of Brazil’s finest authors offers a meditation on betrayal, guilt, survival and the many ways in which personal and collective histories collide' - Ángel Gurría-Quintana Is it better to burn out than to fade away? An entrancing novel of loss and regret, from the prizewinning Brazilian novelist Michel Laub. In this sinuous meditation on passion, youth and guilt, a man looks back over twenty years to his relationship with his first love, Valeria, and its tragic climax.. They both had tickets to Nirvana in 1993, the only gig the band ever played in Brazil. But he was on military service and failed to join her. She was ther...
Diary of the Fall
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."
Passeio com o gigante
Do autor de Diário da queda e um dos principais nomes da literatura brasileira atual. Um romance sobre a divisão da comunidade judaica em meio ao extremismo político no Brasil e no mundo. Davi Rieseman, um advogado ligado à causa sionista, sobe a um palco para dar um discurso. Misturando intolerância e generosidade, ele conta a história de sua relação com o sogro, a mãe, a esposa e a filha à luz de juízos bastante particulares sobre temas do noticiário ― uma eleição no Brasil, a ascensão evangélica, o antissemitismo, o Oriente Médio. Anos depois, enquanto caminha por um hospital onde fantasia e realidade se misturam, com as palavras do passado surgindo em fragmentos que il...
Solução de dois Estados
Do premiado autor Michel Laub, um romance sobre ódio, perdão e os modos como nossa intimidade é definida pela política e pela barbárie do nosso tempo. Uma cineasta alemã marcada por um trauma prepara um documentário sobre a violência brasileira. Os principais entrevistados são dois irmãos: Raquel, artista de cento e trinta quilos cujo trabalho se baseia em episódios que a levaram a detestar o próprio corpo, e Alexandre, empresário que atua no ramo fitness na periferia de São Paulo. Ambos foram escolhidos por causa da repercussão mundial de uma agressão que Raquel sofreu, no início de 2018, durante um debate sobre arte e política num hotel da capital paulista. Diante das câ...
Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust in Contemporary Latin American Fiction
Addressing the question of why many Latin American fiction authors are writing about Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust now, this book charts the evolution of Latin American literary production from the 19th Century, through the late 20th century 'Boom', to the present day. Containing texts from Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, it analyses work by some of the most well-known contemporary writers including Roberto Bolaño, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Jorge Volpi, Lucía Puenzo, Patricio Pron and Michel Laub; as well as notable precursors such as Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes and Ricardo Piglia. Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust in Contemporary Latin American Fiction argues that these authors find Nazism relevant to thinking through some of the most urgent contemporary challenges we face: from racism, to the unequal division of wealth and labour between the Global 'North' and 'South'; and, of course, the general failure of democracy to eliminate fascism.
Journal de la chute
Journal de la chute revisite jusqu’à l’obsession trois catastrophes – trois chutes – qui traversent la quête d’identité du narrateur, un jeune quadra brésilien mal dans sa peau. Celle du grand-père suicidaire, d’abord, survivant d’Auschwitz exilé au Brésil qui taira jusque dans le secret de son journal l’atrocité des camps. Celle de João ensuite, un jeune goy victime jusqu’au drame des brimades constantes de ses camarades d’une école juive de Porto Alegre à laquelle est inscrit le narrateur. Et enfin la plongée dans l’alcool et la dépression de l’auteur fictif de ce terrible journal intime. Avec une violence et une force incroyables, ce « je » fouille l...
Affect and Realism in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction
This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment. Thus, an understanding of the actual role of literature is strategic in the definition of the contemporary, and the book shows an optimism among current writers and artists with respect to the aesthetic, ethical, and political role of literature and art in the twentieth century. In contemporary Brazilian prose, two simultaneous ambitions are often reconciled. The commitment to individual or social reality is a challenge that is assumed without thereby necessarily accepting and following the molds of the traditional search for national or cultural identities. This foundation is one of the constants of contemporary prose, without thereby eliminating the continuous existence of a formal experimentalism that is the clearest heir of the modernist project.
Diario de la caída
Diario de la caída es el extraordinario viaje a través de la memoria de un hombre en el momento exacto en el que tiene que tomar una decisión que cambiará su vida. En la cultura hebrea, el rito iniciático que conduce a la edad adulta tiene lugar a los trece años, con la celebración del Bar Mitzvah. Según aconseja la tradición, los amigos del homenajeado han de lanzarlo por los aires y recogerlo tantas veces como años cumple este. En el caso de João -el único personaje con nombre propio de la novela-, sucede algo inesperado: tras haberlo lanzado al aire por décimo tercera y última vez, sus amigos no lo recogen y cae al suelo, resultando gravemente herido. Años después, uno de sus compañeros rememora el episodio y construye, a partir de las motivaciones que propiciaron aquel episodio oscuro y de sus consecuencias durante las décadas siguientes, una valiente reflexión sobre la identidad, el amor y la pérdida.
The Struggle for Understanding
An in-depth look at Elie Wiesel’s writings, from his earliest works to his final novels. Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust. The Nazis took the lives of most of his family, destroyed the community in which he was raised, and subjected him to ghettoization, imprisonment in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and a death march. It is remarkable not only that Wiesel survived and found a way to write about his experiences, but that he did so with elegance and profundity. His novels grapple with questions of tradition, memory, trauma, madness, atrocity, and faith. The Struggle for Understanding examines Wiesel’s literary, religious, and ...
O tribunal da quinta-feira
O mais novo e explosivo romance do premiado autor de Diário da queda. Um publicitário faz confissões por e-mail ao melhor amigo. Os textos falam de sexo e amor, casamento e traição, usando termos e piadas ofensivas que contam a história de uma longa crise pessoal. Quando a ex-mulher do protagonista faz cópias das mensagens e as distribui, tem início o escândalo que é o centro deste romance explosivo. O fio condutor da história, que une o destino dos personagens diante de um tribunal inusitado, são os reflexos tardios e ainda hoje incômodos da epidemia da aids, e o que está em jogo são os limites do que entendemos por tolerância — mas para chegarmos a eles é preciso ir além do que seria uma literatura "correta" ao tratar de homofobia, assédio, violência, empatia, liberdade e solidariedade.
