{"title":"Aleilton Fonseca","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"o-pendulo-de-euclides","title":"Euclid's pendulum","description":"The Pendulum of the Sertões If I had been at the seminar mentioned by the narrator at the very beginning of this book, I would have agreed with the last speaker. After Euclides da Cunha, Mário Vargas Llosa, Walnice Nogueira Galvão, Edmundo Moniz, Ataliba Nogueira, José Calazans, Roberto Ventura, authors, books, essays, and press articles, Canudos was an exhausted topic. But Aleilton Fonseca brings a thought-provoking question, posed in the restless mind of the professor-narrator of this Euclides' Pendulum. To dispute the idea that knowledge and literature on the Canudos War and its characters are complete and conclusive, he asks: \"And the voices of the backlands? What do they have to say?\" Three men who barely know each other, united by their intellectual and sentimental interest in the Canudos tragedy and their unbridled admiration for Euclides da Cunha, set off, relaxed and curious, on a short trip to the backlands of the Vaza-Barris River, in search of adventure, fun, and learning. One of them finds himself. I believe that Aleilton Fonseca also found himself as a writer—with his descriptive notes, which reveal his keen perception of the backlands universe; with his essayistic dialogues, which attest to the dissertative confidence of concepts and arguments; and with an ingenious narrative, which finds outlet in the plumb line of fictional art. Above all, Aleilton Fonseca hits the nail on the head. In literary diction, through his mastery of language: rhythm, expression, and composition; from the erudite to the popular; From the reflective to the emotive; from the discursive to the lyrical. And in the rhetorical field, through clarity of ideas, congruence between values and content, and relevance of meaning and motivation. This book fills a gap. The Canudos War continues. The struggle of the sertão still bleeds. The sertanejo is still strong. Nothing is over and pacified. The writing of the war is not complete. Not without first hearing what Aleilton Fonseca has to say. Not without stopping to listen to the voice that comes from the sertões. Luís Antonio Cajazeira Ramos, poet","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175146569980,"sku":"9788528614022","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/9d25655bc0d75aabda35416b7d5c3f07_06a949c6-6e72-43b8-ae98-9b8aeacf6cf4.jpg?v=1778325607"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/aleilton-fonseca.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}