{"title":"Antônio Maria","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"o-diario-de-antonio-maria","title":"THE DIARY OF ANTÔNIO MARIA","description":"When writing these notes, I have to be constantly careful not to pose for them. It would be terrible to do or not do something, thinking about what I would write later. The ideal would be to record what happened to me the day before and, soon after, forget that I'm writing a diary. Another mistake I don't want to make: that of literary preoccupation. I don't want to write beautifully. I'm not aiming at the public or any single reader. I'm simply writing. From March to April 1957, Antonio Maria kept a diary in which he recorded his impressions, feelings, and reflections, never neglecting self-criticism and irony. The content of THE DIARY OF ANTONIO MARIA, written with the freedom of those without deadlines, brings together some of the best moments of the Pernambuco chronicler, organized by journalist Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos. A moving record of the intimacy of the author of the classic \"Nobody Loves Me.\" \"I felt we had a treasure,\" explains Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos, \"that we had opened the bedside table of one of the greats of Brazilian literature and he had left a priceless surprise for everyone.\" The diary entries present Maria at her peak, both professionally and emotionally: she produced for radio and television, and still found time for a hectic love life. Among her most famous conquests was Danuza Leão, an icon of beauty and intelligence from Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s. ANTONIO MARIA'S DIARY shows, besides a style rare in Brazilian literature, that Antonio Maria's sensitivity in chronicles and songs known for their heartbreak, depression, and the most eloquent passion, was a sincere expression of a man who dedicated his life to loving women and trying to understand them. Antonio Maria anticipated a type of columnism that would later be consolidated by Zózimo Barroso do Amaral and today has dozens of followers. In fact, he wrote a newspaper within the newspaper. Political notes, street observations, showbiz, gossip. Above all, Maria seemed more than ever immersed in her perplexities and loneliness. Everything a writer needs to produce a sensitive classic like THE DIARY OF ANTONIO MARIA. \"I was still a boy, I loved the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, but my mother bought O Jornal, and I already had my eye on not only Maria's style, but also on the stars who illustrated the column,\" recalls Joaquim. THE DIARY OF ANTONIO MARIA is an existential striptease. Never before has a Brazilian writer of his stature revealed himself to readers in such a way. A deep dive into the conflicts of a seductive, talented man, with beautiful women at his feet, but always consumed by profound loneliness, an enormous lack of affection. One of the most exquisite prose pieces in Brazilian literature is published for the first time. Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos was born in Rio de Janeiro. He is a journalist. He has worked for Veja and O Dia and contributes to major national publications. He is currently a reporter and columnist for Jornal do Brasil. He has published two books: Antônio Maria - Nights of Copacabana, part of the Profiles of Rio series, and Happy 1958: The Year That Shouldn't End.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176011186428,"sku":"9788520006283","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/2f9f74819dc6344e41610f6698fb04a8.jpg?v=1778317126"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/antonio-maria.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}