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His friend proposes that Salviano pose as a devout person to gain the sympathy and support of the religious peasants, thus stealing the influence of the priests. • In 2014, the work celebrated the 60th anniversary of its first publication. • The book presents biographical information on the author, an essay on the work written by Ligia Chiappini, and excerpts from the author's last interview.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159551033596,"sku":"9788503012133","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/2bdf719b8231831fd976343a769707fb.jpg?v=1779506389"},{"product_id":"reflexos-do-baile","title":"Reflections of the dance","description":"DICTATORSHIP IN A SURPRISING NOVEL BY ONE OF BRAZIL'S GREATEST AUTHORS. \"Reflexos do baile\" tells the story of the kidnapping of an ambassador, a common practice at the time, during a gala ball. The narrative highlights the author's need to bring information to the public; any resemblance to reality is no coincidence. The novel is told through notes and fragments of letters written during the kidnapping, building a web of secrets, mysteries, and codenames. • Flare-in text by critic Davi Arrigucci Jr. • The book features a biographical text by Eric Nepomuceno (a prestigious Brazilian translator and writer) and a critical essay on the work by Ligia Chiappini, a leading expert on Callado.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159610409212,"sku":"9788503012102","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/5455e87d2acf559b0a842e18f581931d_5db2e21a-3c05-47ce-af50-b7fe96f0370b.jpg?v=1778325666"},{"product_id":"a-cidade-assassinada","title":"The murdered city","description":"\" \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Murdered City\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e, Antonio Callado's first play, was born as a tribute to the 400th anniversary of the city of São Paulo and is today a classic of Brazilian literature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Written and performed in the 1950s, \u003cem\u003eThe Assassinated City\u003c\/em\u003e transports the audience to 1500s Brazil in three acts, alongside historical and legendary characters, such as João Ramalho and Father José de Anchieta.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e With a rich text, filled with historical layers and intertextualities, Callado presents in \u003cem\u003eThe Assassinated City\u003c\/em\u003e his political concerns – which will appear in later works, such as his novel \u003cem\u003eQuarup\u003c\/em\u003e –, such as the indigenous condition, religious colonization, the formation of the Brazilian people and the imposition of a logic of progress, which was in full swing in Juscelino Kubitschek's Brazil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn the play, the city of Santo André da Borda do Campo is threatened by the governor-general's desire to transfer the pillory (a symbol of civilizing presence) to the village of São Paulo. Alongside this, a conflict of interest regarding the treatment of the region's indigenous people emerges between the physical violence of the first bandeirantes and the symbolic violence of the Jesuits. War between the men approaches, but not without first considering the decisive action of Rosa Bernarda, a woman and a mameluca—a strong female character, as is the hallmark of Callado's theater.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eBy blending historical memory and fiction, classic texts such as \"Auto de Anchieta,\" \"Iracema,\" and \"Song of Solomon,\" the author, an immortal of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, is able to bring out Brazilian identity itself. The play presents political conflicts, which, despite being represented by the interests between colony and metropolis, are still perceptible today, as well as romantic conflicts, including the ethical battle between love and duty. The very condition and mission of art and the search for freedom are also discussed—specific and general themes that can elevate \u003cem\u003e\"The Assassinated City\"\u003c\/em\u003e to the rank of great works of universal significance.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159838802172,"sku":"9788503013932","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/c312b140bf92d494de01df06fdcb965b.jpg?v=1778814971"},{"product_id":"uma-rede-para-iemanja","title":"A hammock for Yemanja","description":"\" \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Network for Yemanja\u003c\/em\u003e is a moving Afro-Brazilian Christmas play that captures the power of Black culture, through the words of Antônio Callado. This edition also features a performance by the renowned actress Zezé Motta.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In the opening of \u003cem\u003e\"A Rede Para Yemanjá\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" a play written by the celebrated author Antônio Callado in 1961, Juca's father sits on a beach bench, gazing out to sea in prayer. Yemanjá has taken his son, and with him, perhaps, his sense. As the figure of an old black man, Juca's father can be considered a guide, present throughout the play's action and responsible for blending reality and fantasy. Through his eyes appear Manuel Seringueiro, Lili, and Jacira—the latter pregnant and with an immense desire to answer the call of the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe only play by Callado's Black Theater set in an open space, \u003cem\u003e\"A Rede para Iemanjá\"\u003c\/em\u003e can be read as a representation of Brazil's condition at the time. In the city of Rio de Janeiro, which serves as its setting, there is the encounter of the sea with urban progress, verticalization, the presence of northeastern migration, religious syncretism, and the mixing of Black and white people. Abandonment, hope, and faith are also on stage. The hammock is the symbolic artifact that allows all the dimensions presented by Callado to be embraced and cradled, and that drives Jacira's will; it represents her bond with her family, a place of belonging. Her child, therefore, can only be born there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eProfessor and literary critic Ligia Chiappini observes that, despite a certain melancholy, there is a strong sense of hope in this performance: “The play, which parodies the birth of Christ, has him reborn in the open air [...] and can be read as an Afro-Brazilian version of a Christmas play.” \u003cem\u003eA Rede Para Iemanjá\u003c\/em\u003e contains the beauty, simplicity, and also the complexity of so many Brazils that only Antônio Callado could wrap and enchant in a single hammock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e This edition features an introduction by actress Zezé Motta, a foreword by João Cezar de Castro Rocha, professor of Comparative Literature at UERJ, and a profile of the author by Eric Nepomuceno.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159926489340,"sku":"9786558470298","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/01259b3a89f40d989da8b0dfb71e326d.jpg?v=1778321227"},{"product_id":"sempreviva","title":"Sempreviva","description":"THE BRAZILIAN DICTATORSHIP THROUGH THE EYES OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST EDITORS Sempreviva tells the story of Quinho, a political exile who returns to Brazil clandestinely with the righteous task of uncovering the identity of those responsible for the torture of his wife Lucinda during the dictatorship. 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From the return of political exiles to the first signs of openness to the arrival of the winds of redemocratization. It's all there. Much has been written about these times. They have almost always been memoirs, or, in other words, written with the confidence that only the passage of time brings. Callado wrote his novels while Brazil was in turmoil. The thoughts he expresses in his work from this period were felt by him as they were unfolding. His characters could be a neighbor, a friend, or a close relative of the reader. It's been said that \"Concert Carioca\" is the author's quintessential urban novel. Set in Rio de Janeiro, without its characters traveling to the Xingu River or the Bolivian border, as in previous texts, it touches on Leme, Senhor dos Passos Street, and Humaitá. But it's significant that one of its protagonists is the Botanical Garden, and one of its settings is the Indigenous Museum. Brazil, in the process of redemocratization, was a new Brazil. 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There's talk of a festive left, of dreamy intellectuals, of a Brazil with a political effervescence similar to that of the protests that began in June 2013, even though Callado wrote so many years ago. Marked by the disillusionment with armed struggle projects among left-wing sectors of the middle class, the author narrates the lives of a group of friends who become involved in the fight against the dictatorship amid political discussions in bohemian Rio. • Sequel to Quarup, a novel that was previously published.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176617230588,"sku":"9788503012089","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/25fa73fd8fc0369def1ffc59dca2e046_8a8bce1a-3f71-439f-ae87-86aa94bb0c0a.jpg?v=1778323185"},{"product_id":"a-revolta-da-cachaca","title":"The cachaça revolt","description":"A tribute to Grande Otelo, the play is part of Antonio Callado's Black theater alongside, among others, Pedro Mico Vito and Dadinha, a playwright and his wife, both white, who receive an unexpected visit from Ambrósio, a Black actor and longtime friend of the couple. The visitor brings an unusual gift: a barrel of cachaça to temper an increasingly confusing conversation between the three. Ambrósio has one goal: to convince Vito to finish the play his playwright friend had promised him, in which he would star. Unsettling, ironic, and still necessary today due to the current issues it presents, A Revolta da Cachaça addresses the situation of Black actors in Brazil.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176747450620,"sku":"9788503012669","price":39.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/8083efa315d6852c8e10b9fc233ba367_f1bac81d-5137-4566-9e6a-a38f9271c3f1.jpg?v=1778312968"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/antonio-callado.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}