{"title":"Antonio Fraga","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"desabrigo-e-outras-narrativas","title":"Homelessness and other narratives","description":"\"Fraga has a rare ability to translate oral utterance into written form. There's a description of a street vendor's speech that seems to me a masterpiece in its own right.\" Celso Cunha \"Fraga was a pioneer; today he's no longer the only writer to use slang, but he can be considered the founder of this style.\" Antonio Callado Desabrigo, Antônio Fraga's debut book, was written in 1942, twenty years after the impact of the Semana de Arte Moderna (Modern Art Week) and with literature heavily influenced by the regional novel. First published in 1945, Desabrigo generated controversy, left its mark on Brazilian literature, and was recognized as a masterpiece of short fiction by important figures in the cultural scene: Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Celso Cunha, João Antônio, Vinicius de Moraes, Oswald de Andrade, Mario Lago, among others. Fraga brought significant innovations to his writing, such as the use of slang and the absence of punctuation, and gave voice to characters who appeared in the narrative through the eyes of others, as in the children's story \"Acalanto,\" in which a two-year-old child reveals his own feelings. \"Desabrigo\" (Homeless) is the provocative manifesto of a generation that had just freed itself from the censorship of the Estado Novo (New State) and the consequences of World War II, composed of a dialogue between those who lived in the periphery and those who led the artistic effervescence. Fraga's short stories and quasi-novels explore a side of existence that is on the brink: creator and creature balance each other to avoid bringing conflict into real life. Popular terms and expressions weave together a vibrant text, spoken and composed collectively in the everyday life of Rio de Janeiro and its outskirts, such as Mangue and Lapa. This volume, published in the Sabor Literário collection, features \"Desabrigo,\" the novella that made Fraga famous, and other narratives: four short stories and two novellas, inaugurating a Fraga-style series of publications. The introduction and organization by Maria Célia Barbosa Reis da Silva, a professor, researcher, and expert on the author's life and work, enriches the book with valuable information about the career of the \"marginal\" writer, as well as interviews published at the time with prestigious journalists in the most culturally influential publications. Researcher Maria Célia Reis also compiled a list of all of Antônio Fraga's texts and publications about him. \"Desabrigo e outras narrativas\" (Brideless and Other Narratives) features a previously unpublished, undated short story discovered by the book's organizer, called \"Crepuscular,\" about the narrator's reflections triggered at an unspecified time of day. The sense of the transience of existence for a man contemplating the sunset is the hallmark of this text: \"Upon reaching old age, we are a house whose foundations lie hidden, the walls are ready, and the scaffolding dismantled.\" \"The publication of Fraga's unpublished works is a debt to Brazilian culture. It is the least that can be done for a figure who has been abandoned his entire life.\" Zuenir Ventura","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176263106812,"sku":"9788503010061","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/ebc59c5be14c150c388f81c94bdaf78f_479c92bb-e736-41a3-b888-5e45df297639.jpg?v=1778323718"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/antonio-fraga.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}