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A renowned screenwriter and playwright, Alcione Araújo is the author of the acclaimed novel Nem mesmo todo o oceano (Not Even the Whole Ocean), which, along with Urgent is Life and his playwriting—published by Civilização Brasileira—reveals the writer's many facets and gifts. \"There isn't one Alcione who writes films, another who writes novels, or another who writes plays. Everything has been metabolized. It's the same man, with the same history and the same background,\" he reveals. Displaced from their original setting, the chronicles selected for this book abandon their transience—the pages of the newspaper Estado de Minas—to enter the literary world, thus receiving the enduring status that literature confers upon them. In Urgente é a Vida, Alcione doesn't overdo the lurid and scandalous, serving up a menu of psychosocial and political-historical ills through the lens of everyday scenes.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159935074556,"sku":"9788501070142","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/9440821e530b4f2948c3dbf62c11e59c.jpg?v=1778312968"},{"product_id":"passaros-de-voo-curto","title":"Short-flight birds","description":"Alcione Araújo returns to the field of novels after ten years with the release of Short-Flight Birds. The time between the release of her last novel, \"Not Even the Whole Ocean,\" a Jabuti Prize finalist, and this new one was practically all spent writing Short-Flight Birds, a book that Luis Fernando Verissimo, on the back cover, calls a \"romanção.\" The augmentative, in this case, is relevant for its size—462 pages—and for the courage to embrace a novel with a dozen characters, dozens of stories, and nearly a century: \"In this case, I had an English engineer who arrived in Brazil at the end of the 19th century, and a Brazilian opera singer from the second half of the 20th century. Between them, a century and the possibility of a novel.\" Short-Flight Birds doesn't tell one story, but several. It tells the story of an English miner who arrives in Brazil in the late 19th century, an American pianist who comes to play in casinos, an opera singer who tours the country performing from town to town, a handyman nicknamed Zé Bolero, and an aviator who fights in World War II. According to Alcione, it was the characters, not a pre-established plot, that guided him in this century-long saga through the Brazilian countryside and its history: \"Another thing, I don't usually start with the plot. First, the characters emerge, who grow, show themselves off, and seduce me. If I surrender to their charms, whims, and contradictions, they possess me.\"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175038861564,"sku":"9788501082107","price":79.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/2b60af707d65be299658ce71e82676a4.jpg?v=1778311476"},{"product_id":"doce-deleite","title":"Milk cream","description":"One of Brazil's most respected playwrights, award-winning film screenwriter, and winner of two Jabuti awards, Alcione Araújo drew applause and laughter from Rio de Janeiro audiences in 1981 with the play \"Doce Deleite,\" starring masterfully Marília Pêra and Marco Nanini, which ran for four years. Almost three decades after its first production, the play repeated its success with a new staging in 2008, this time with Camila Morgado and Reinaldo Gianecchini in the cast and Marília herself directing. Originally published in the third and final volume of the \"Teatro de Alcione Araújo\" series (1999), which brings together 12 plays written by the playwright, the play now has a special, independent edition featuring an introduction by the author, as well as interviews with actors Camila Morgado and Reinaldo Gianecchini, who discuss their involvement in the play's second production and the process of creating the characters. With this first volume, Civilização Brasileira revives Alcione Araújo's Theater series, which in this new phase will feature short texts, including some previously unpublished. With lively and exuberant humor, Doce Delite is a 12-sketch comedy that reveals the behind-the-scenes of a theater and its characters, both onstage and in the wings. Written in 1980, a time when the country's mood was buoyant with the return of political exiles, a glimmer of hope, and freedom seemed at hand, the play utilizes different forms of the same genre—comedy—to honor theater as the most ancient art of acting. Featuring a pair of actors who play multiple roles, Doce Delite celebrates a singular type of artist whose creation gives life, body, voice, features, and emotions to non-existent beings, as well as to those who exist behind the scenes but seem not to exist because they never appear onstage, such as stagehands and ticket takers. In the words of director Aderbal Freire-Filho, who was the lighting designer for the first production and wrote the book's blurb: \"Alcione plays with theater, mocking it, its sayings and myths, its trades and officials, its pretensions and miseries. A dish made to show that theater is such a powerful art that it can't be taken seriously.\"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176044282108,"sku":"9788520009017","price":39.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/9212ecc76e2f5a4117b6a978ca5963fd_85c725ea-05ea-4131-b32a-63d4c7067ebd.jpg?v=1778310933"},{"product_id":"deixa-que-eu-te-ame","title":"Let me love you","description":"One of Brazil's most respected playwrights, award-winning film screenwriter, and two-time Jabuti Award winner, Alcione Araújo is releasing a book version of his unpublished play \"Let Me Love You.\" The dramatic fiction is scheduled to premiere on stage in 2012. The story takes place on what the author imagined would be the last night of the Real Astória—a traditional restaurant in Botafogo Beach, Rio de Janeiro—before its demolition. The renowned playwright's play depicts a decadent, luxurious atmosphere, with red on the ceiling, carpet, and the waiters' bullfighter vests. It's a place for celebrities, the wealthy, and pseudo-celebrities who feel safe, far from the invasive lenses of the paparazzi. The \"nights\" at the imaginary Real Astória are highly popular. The girls carry bikinis and toothbrushes in their bags, and only those who want to go home alone go home. A place where unusual scenes, like a girl having dinner in just her underwear after being caught by her sister in her jeans, are mixed with fierce flirtations, like the whisper of a female voice that says, \"Let me love you.\" The target, in a mixture of astonishment and sagacity, responds, \"I will, if you don't ask me to reciprocate.\" Let me love you is part of the Alcione Araújo Theater Collection.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176264155388,"sku":"9788520010204","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/5b9bf34a03c7f8b1a05342835bafd63f.jpg?v=1778323740"},{"product_id":"cala-a-boca-e-me-beija","title":"Shut up and kiss me","description":"One of the country's most respected playwrights and an award-winning film screenwriter (Nunca Somos tão feliz, Policarpo Quaresma), Minas Gerais native Alcione Araújo made his literary debut in 1998 with the monumental novel \"Nem mesmo todo o oceano,\" a Jabuti Prize finalist, which broadened his horizons as a writer with a solid career as a playwright. A columnist for the newspaper Estado de Minas since 2001, his first collection of chronicles, \"Urgente é a vida,\" was awarded the Jabuti Prize in 2005. Now, about to complete 10 years of weekly chronicles, Alcione—who in recent years has dedicated herself to the role of novelist—brings together in \"Cala a boca e me beijaja\" (Shut Up and Kiss Me) some of the best texts published in the Minas Gerais newspaper. The 70 chronicles selected here—from approximately 500—are the result of a careful selection by PUC-MG professor Glória Gomide, and share Alcione's keen sense of observation. The title itself arose from an argument between a girl and her surfer boyfriend on the Leblon boardwalk, which caught the writer's attention. Tired of the bickering, she uttered the phrase, ending the fight. In this work, the author moves from the everyday to the fabulous, in a text that masterfully flows from narration to abstraction. With humor, often with sarcasm, sometimes with drama, he recounts stories from Rio, his Minas Gerais home, Leblon, and the world with the acuity of a poet. Snippets of reality, snapshots of life, snapshots. Erudite in simplicity, as in \"Marginália,\" the author lets himself fall into the escracho of \"O crachá,\" in which he navigates the etymology of the word to the discomfort caused by the object itself. In \"Meus mortos jazem em mim,\" with his sensitivity at its peak, we see the unconditional love he reserves for the memory of those who made his history and are no longer with us—a pure tribute to the construction of life. In the beautiful \"Probation,\" the fear of God and the absurdity of the biblical situation reveal that the writer is passionate about fatherhood—and life. Alcione speaks of dogs in buildings, sensual desires, rides for beautiful women, the man with the bicycle and loudspeaker who announces the streets, divorced women, inane conversations, and small gestures. He speaks of old and young, eternal lovers, the fear of the night, children's stories, and Bluebeard. But no observation or word is chosen at random, which ensures that his reader—whether adult, young, or adolescent—always sees themselves within his chronicle. \"Cause your mouth and kiss me\" is, in the words of Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, who pens the book's blurb, \"to sit back and let time pass.\" And he warns: \"Read on time without any scheduled commitments. Or you'll miss everything you've planned.\"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176295579900,"sku":"9788501091178","price":39.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/b039adf03ab030abe90e56253370940e.jpg?v=1778324914"},{"product_id":"ventania","title":"Windstorm","description":"An unlikely love, amidst books and despair. In the small, fictional Ventania, the station master falls in love with the beautiful librarian Lorena Krull. An exotic, modern woman, she spreads literature and charm through the seldom-visited shelves of her kingdom of letters. And it is amidst the dusty books that Philadelpho is reborn, after suffering the loss of a leg in a train accident. Hoping to win his Dulcinea, this contemporary Quixote tilts at the windmills of uncertain inspiration and seeks to become worthy of his beloved. In hastily written sentences, in pencil, he begins his career as a writer. And he begins to catalog what he sees from his platform. With each episode recounted, each book consulted, each adventure experienced through the dialogues of another, he feels his crutch disappear. The non-existent leg looms large and makes him whole once more. But the female soul is capricious, as so many classics show us. Lorena, his Blonde Panther, charms herself for a boy-man. Of all people, ZéJosé, brother of ZéElias, responsible for the disaster that marked him. Son of Dasdores, born on Good Friday, nephew of Dasalmas, born on All Souls' Day, and Dasflores, in spring. A prince of childish reigns: kites, marbles, spinning tops. Unrequited feelings burn in the chest of this locomotive inspector. Like cars following the inexorable course of the tracks, we are drawn into this man's story, heading toward a pathetic fate. In a mesmerizing narrative, the reader becomes the author's confidant. His footnotes reveal all his ideas and decisions. And they take us on a journey where the engineer is the talent of one of the country's most respected authors: Alcione Araújo.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176811118844,"sku":"9788501095084","price":79.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/70fe0a7cc1b9c4545dbf5e9f863480d3.jpg?v=1776892519"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/alcione-araujo.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}