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A delve into shattered relationships, unfulfilled ambitions, of ordinary heroes, victims of self-imposed exile, plunged into the sour melancholy of sameness.  \nIn Curitiba, on the eve of the 2002 presidential elections, the photographer of the title, never named, is hired by a mysterious man to secretly photograph model Íris. He pays $200 per roll of film. Although seemingly easy, the job becomes more complicated when he becomes attracted to the girl. While deciding whether to keep Íris or the money, he also has to manage a marital crisis. He doesn't know how to tell his wife he wants a separation. 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In her apartment, she encounters a series of events that intertwine the urgency of the present moment with memory: a blank envelope mysteriously left under the living room door; the small and large doubts surrounding the translation and the implications it projects for her career; a phone conversation with her writer boyfriend, who is intellectually harassing her; and an unexpected call offering her a job interpreting for a FIFA executive visiting Curitiba for the World Cup preparations in Brazil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eUnder the force of pure narrative pleasure, our curiosity is captured by the subtle intersection of points of view over three intense days. The character's memories, arguments, and perceptions unfold in multiple combinations. 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The woman wants Manuel to read the works of Trapo, the artist in question, and decide if they are valuable. Enraptured by the enchantment of the situation, the professor realizes that reading alone is insufficient and begins to investigate the young man's motives for suicide. He seeks out friends, interviews people, speaks with the boy's father, and tries to find young Rosa, to whom Trapo addresses his letter-poems.\n In this work, Tezza shows extreme skill in weaving together the narrative led by Manuel and Trapo's crazy letters into the novel.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159763370236,"sku":"9788501114396","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/f700f03ddfc969c16a919c18dde05d29.jpg?v=1778318745"},{"product_id":"ensaio-da-paixao","title":"Passion Rehearsal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the country's main literary awards, Cristovão Tezza launches a new edition of \u003cem\u003eEnsaio da paixão\u003c\/em\u003e , a novel from his youth, inspired by the years he was part of a theater community and an alternative society, led by the writer and playwright W. Rio Apa.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eBefore becoming the renowned novelist, columnist, and critic he is today—with an impressive list of published books and winner of several of Brazil's top literary awards, including the Jabuti Prize, the São Paulo Prize for Literature, and the National Library Literary Prize—Cristovão Tezza, from 1968 to 1976, was part of a theater community on the coast of Paraná, led by writer, playwright, and playwright W. Rio Apa (1925-2016). From this rich community experience, which cemented his fascination with the artistic and literary world, came \u003cem\u003eEnsaio da paixão\u003c\/em\u003e (Passion Essay), a novel with strong autobiographical overtones, originally published in 1986 and now receiving a new edition revised by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eDrawing on his personal experience, Tezza crafted a fictional and satirical narrative set during the dark years of the military dictatorship. The novel tells the story of a peculiar group—composed of inhabitants of an isolated island in southern Brazil, the Island of Passion—who come together around a single goal: to stage the \u003cem\u003ePassion of the Christ\u003c\/em\u003e . The play is produced annually on the island under the direction of Isaiah, the region's self-proclaimed prophet. Despite the clashes between its members' personalities, their social differences, and their wild political, ideological, sexual, and artistic passions, the eccentric flock prepares together to rehearse and produce the play spontaneously, without following any script to the letter. As they prepare for the grand performance, they combine work and pleasure, while enjoying the freedom the island affords. However, they are viewed by the country's repressive authorities as a subversive group and a serious threat to the prevailing order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn this novel about his youth, Tezza uses magical realism—a hallmark of the literature of the time—combined with explicit, fast-paced humor to illustrate how alternative communities in the 1970s functioned and how they were viewed by the state. The island, the formation of a group dedicated to something greater than itself, the repression exercised by an authoritarian government: all these elements make up a delightful allegory of our country. In \u003cem\u003e\"Ensaio da Paixão\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" the author seems to understand, almost cathartically, the impact that his time in the Rio Apa community had on his earlier life, when he was just a young revolutionary and radical transgressor of the \"system,\" and on his present life, as a renowned writer and literary figure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn a previously unpublished afterword, written especially for this edition, the author assesses the cultural differences between the present and his youth, illuminating certain aspects of the book. But differences aside, Cristovão Tezza remains the same rebel as ever: \"[Literature] is a personal experience intended not to teach what the author knows, but for him to discover, through writing, what he doesn't yet know, and eventually share it with the reader. 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Under the often indirect but penetrating light of fiction, the individual, social, political, and existential questions of this historical period resurface here thanks to the talents of Alberto Mussa, Nélida Piñon, Francisco Azevedo, Antônio Torres, Carla Madeira, Nei Lopes, Claudia Lage, and Cristovão Tezza.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn this grand sweep of Brazil's recent history, some important themes stand out: the now traditional violence of our cities, with a touch of the supernatural; the role of women in society; the opposition between dictatorship and counterculture, in Brazil and around the world; the reach of the military regime in the country's backlands; the awakening of youth during the period of redemocratization; the strength of popular culture on the eve of the digital revolution; the everyday pressures of the contemporary world; and, finally, the return of the far right to power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eOpen Time: Eight Decades in Eight Stories by Great Brazilian Authors\u003c\/em\u003e , organized in celebration of Editora Record's 80th anniversary, is a wonderful opportunity to explore the country's history through literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174501990652,"sku":"9786555875584","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/143f99b57d79e10d3f17526fedff8ff7.jpg?v=1778876473"},{"product_id":"a-suavidade-do-vento","title":"The softness of the wind","description":"The definitive edition of one of the author's major novels, *The Eternal Son*. 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While preparing his acceptance speech—he, of all people, so accustomed to turning thorny topics into powerful lectures—he is overcome by an uncontrollable succession of memories and revisits not always happy moments in his life: living with his strict father; his mother's death; his time in seminary; his marriage to Mônica; his turbulent relationship with his son; his passion for the mysterious Thérèze. These memories intersect with the history of Brazil, from the military regime to the most recent governments, and Heliseu's reckoning with his past also becomes a country's reckoning with its history. Here, he achieves the feat of combining complete mastery of narrative resources with a compelling plot that leaves no loose ends, intriguing the reader until the very end. With the release of the memorable The Eternal Son, Cristovão Tezza became one of the most celebrated Brazilian authors. And The Professor is a novel destined to also be linked to the name of its creator: Cristovão Tezza, author of The Professor. • The Professor is Cristovão Tezza's first novel since 2010's An Emotional Error. Since then, Tezza has published the collection of short stories Beatriz, the literary essay The Spirit of Prose, and the selection of chronicles A Worker on Vacation.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174892814588,"sku":"9788501102126","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/1f2923d16ed06ddbcdb722e22a0657bb.jpg?v=1779765798"},{"product_id":"um-operario-em-ferias","title":"A worker on vacation","description":"Edited by Christian Schwartz and illustrated by Benett, \"Um operário em férias\" (A Worker on Vacation) contains one hundred chronicles by one of the most important contemporary authors, Cristovão Tezza. 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Using them, he seeks to define the hallmarks of this very Brazilian genre, to which he devoted himself almost accidentally, and of which this book is a fine example.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175459373308,"sku":"9788501104694","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/9f2b372c17ef1be5f115448394c60b47_e2d040c2-ce3a-4d09-b7f8-c8a43cfeb81a.jpg?v=1778313254"},{"product_id":"o-filho-eterno","title":"The eternal son","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the country's main literary awards, \u003cem\u003eO filho eterno\u003c\/em\u003e has a special edition with a new graphic design and a foreword by writer Sérgio Rodrigues.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn Cristovão Tezza's novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Eternal Son\u003c\/em\u003e , the birth of a child with Down syndrome coincides with a turning point in the parents' lives. A desired child, but different: in the words of the father, in his timid attempt to explain to acquaintances in the first few months, a child with \"a small problem.\" At first, everything is strange, and the father assumes that the urgent need isn't to solve the boy's problem—is there something to be solved?—but the place the child will forever occupy in the couple's life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eTezza exposes the countless difficulties and the sweet little victories of raising a child with Down syndrome. The journey through clinics and doctors' offices at a time when the subject was less studied, still shrouded in a certain degree of mysticism, and the tense initial relationship with his wife. \"In one of her crises, she tells him, in the desperation of loud tears: I ended your life.\" And he didn't respond, as if he agreed—the hand he reached for her hair comforted her suffering, not the truth of the facts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eWith the passing of time and a series of small achievements—his first steps, going to school—little Felipe gradually comes to terms with his place as a son. His father overcomes his denial and no longer sees his firstborn's condition as some sort of \"unexpected curse,\" seeing him as a unique individual in need of love and care. The author uses the challenges that have arisen since Felipe's birth to reshape his own story: experiencing community life as a teenager, living illegally in Germany to earn money, the struggles of a writer in his early thirties with a few books in the drawer, and the supposed stability of a professor at a public university.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe book was a huge success with both the public and critics: it won the most important Brazilian literary awards and has been translated into dozens of countries. It received the Charles Brisset Prize for best book of the year in France, and in 2011, it was one of ten finalists for the prestigious IMPAC-Dublin Award for works published in English. It was adapted for film in 2016, directed by Paulo Machline. It also received an award-winning stage adaptation in Brazil by Companhia Atores de Laura (various cities, 2011-2020), and other productions in Argentina (Buenos Aires, 2018-2019) and Portugal (various cities, 2022-2023).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Courageous and moving, \u003cem\u003eThe Eternal Son\u003c\/em\u003e reinforces Cristovão Tezza's place among the greatest Brazilian writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175557611772,"sku":"9786555876499","price":69.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/32fcb4e88007bf18363546df1f8ac844.jpg?v=1778875175"},{"product_id":"o-fantasma-da-infancia","title":"The ghost of childhood","description":"Two seemingly unconnected stories intertwine in this novel. The protagonist of both is the decadent journalist André Devine. In one moment, he is kidnapped by a millionaire to write his biography. 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It all begins with a declaration, a truncated sentence that says: \"I made an emotional mistake.\" The dialogue that follows this confession insinuates, more than it actually reveals, a delve into the memories—be they fragile family situations or failed romantic relationships—that inhabit the characters' minds. In the few words exchanged between glasses of wine and sips of tea, one senses the presence of the unsaid and of what remains unsaid. At 42 years of ill-lived life, the writer dreams of finally finding a woman willing to guide him. And Beatriz, a stranger, now finds herself confronted by the very author she had learned to love through books, a mixture of admiration, idealization, and, above all, a lack of intimacy. Through Tezza's precise and captivating diction, we are invited to witness the characters' conversation from a privileged vantage point. Driven by desire but paralyzed by fear, Paulo and Beatriz become accomplices. In the silences, the fencing of feelings gropes for the word that redeems: \"Love is a feeling necessarily filled with shadows. Or is it passion that is dark?\" \"Tezza's text is emotional, but it is not one that only appeals to emotion (...). What we have here is the mature literature of a talented writer, undoubtedly one of the most important contemporary Brazilian writers.\" Leandro Oliveira, Le monde diplomatique \"(...) the endless game of masks is how one could define the shifting universe of Cristovão Tezza. In an extraordinarily eloquent style, attentive to outpourings, he rises with seriousness and conviction that literature is responsible for rescuing who we are, beyond good and evil.\" Lênia Márcia Mongelli, O Estado de S. 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Who wanted to write a new Saint Bernard, a scene from Dostoevsky, or a paragraph from Faulkner? Here, Tezza dissects the machinery of literary creation with the scalpel of his talent. He separates nerves and tendons, styles and icons of his craft, immersing himself in the spirit of prose, of himself, of his generation, and of the literature that marked him. And that still interests him today. And he gives life to an inanimate object of philosophical, anthropological, and aesthetic discussions. He opens the prose writer\/reader's chest and reveals the mass of difficulties, maladjustments, contradictory feelings, suppressed hatreds, forbidden desires, and unbearable nausea that are the raw material of the priesthood of writing. 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I wrote only one book of short stories in my life, 'The Invented City,' stories painstakingly created and polished between 1969 and 1979 with the intention of learning to write and master the arts of fiction, and published in 1980,\" declares the author. In Beatriz, the character who became known to the public in \"An Emotional Error\" now accompanies the author in original situations. Composed of seven long stories and a revealing prologue, in which the author confesses his weaknesses, the collection of short stories bears the mark of the novelist: in all of them, the same character, Beatriz, appears at different moments in her life, and sometimes Paulo Donetti, the writer who is her difficult passion. Seven intertwined stories that are also the story of the construction of a character – someone who wants to speak, work, and walk on her own two feet. The author reveals that Beatriz's short stories are, in a way, not a continuation of the previous novel, despite having appeared before, but rather its premises: \"All the texts were rewritten for this edition, because now I know more about Beatriz and Donetti than I did when I invented them.\" Beatriz is many: the object of a fierce dispute between two enemy writers; the teacher who perceives in her student's blue eyes a cry for help; the clerk of an old lady who confesses her unforgettable crime; the proofreader of a man's text who invites her into a trap that proves deadly; the potential partner of a former colleague who mysteriously reappears in her home; the lover of the tattooed young man who is the heir to a second-hand bookstore. And, at times, the memory of Paulo Donetti. By immersing themselves in the fiction, the reader simultaneously reflects on the relationships between reader and author, reading and book, the writer and the liturgy of their office. The language is limpid and crystalline. Beatriz is told by an attentive narrator, a voice that observes every gesture and, in each scene, subtly assimilates the gaze that, between the lines of the text, sees and feels. A wonderful literary journey from one of the most important Brazilian writers of our time.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176417706236,"sku":"9788501094223","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/71d5376a884d3bf93aefe783b9e29533.jpg?v=1778320287"},{"product_id":"breve-espaco","title":"Brief space","description":"The novel tells the story of Tato Simmone, a young painter from Curitiba, who seeks to establish himself as an artist and finds himself at odds with a seductive woman, a suspicious art dealer, and a fake Modigliani. 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A desired child, but different: in the words of the father, in his timid attempt to explain to acquaintances during the first few months, a child with \"a small problem.\" At first, everything is strange, and the father assumes that the urgent need isn't to solve the boy's problem—is there something to be solved?—but the place the child will forever occupy in the couple's life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In a courageous and moving book, Cristovão Tezza exposes the countless difficulties and the small, sweet victories of raising a child with Down syndrome. He explores his journey through clinics and doctors' offices in the early 1980s, a time when the subject wasn't widely studied and was still shrouded in mysticism. And his tense initial relationship with his wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAs time passes and through a series of small achievements—his first steps, starting school—little Felipe gradually comes to terms with his place as a son. 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O fotógrafo começa a se interessar pela modelo, o que tensiona ainda mais seu casamento com Lídia, que, prestes a ingressar no mestrado, se vê envolvida com o professor Duarte, que por sua vez é casado com Mara, a analista de Íris. Tem-se então uma espécie de “Quadrilha” drummondiana, onde tudo vai se desenrolando aos poucos, em guerrilhas mentais travadas pelas personagens. Tezza também antecipa aqui o “diálogo de surdos” que marcaria o debate político (ou a falta dele) na sociedade brasileira nas décadas seguintes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA partir das imagens – reais e imaginárias –, os personagens constroem realidades paralelas, sonhos e pesadelos em meio a relações fraturadas. 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