{"title":"Dalton Trevisan","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"antologia-pessoal","title":"Personal anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWith a foreword by Augusto Massi, \u003cem\u003ePersonal Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e brings together an unprecedented collection of texts by Dalton Trevisan, one of the greatest short story writers in Brazilian literature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e From the constellation of his vast literary output, Dalton Trevisan selected 94 short stories. With a foreword by critic Augusto Massi, this \u003cem\u003epersonal anthology\u003c\/em\u003e provides both an initiation rite for new readers and, for those already familiar with the Vampire of Curitiba, an inventory of his best stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eEntirely devoted to literature and a master of intimacy, Trevisan is one of the most prolific authors in Brazilian literature in recent decades, without ever diminishing his creative force, which is experimental, expressive, and transformative. This new self-portrait, the most comprehensive and representative of his anthologies, brings together short stories from \u003cem\u003eNovelas nada exemplares\u003c\/em\u003e (1959) to \u003cem\u003eO beijo na nuca\u003c\/em\u003e (2014), revealing his literary references, the different narrative forms he adopted throughout his career, and the \"poetic bazaar\"—in the words of Augusto Massi—of his phrases and aphorisms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Demonstrating the longevity and contemporaneity of Dalton Trevisan's work, \u003cem\u003ePersonal Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e reaffirms his unquestionable power as one of the most important short story writers in Brazilian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159200055548,"sku":"9786555876666","price":139.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/cdbcda01062bcaeb38fed90c81f2ff34_2ea82479-76ff-49dc-9dbd-b4bbbb4b448e.jpg?v=1778325987"},{"product_id":"cemiterio-de-elefantes","title":"Elephant cemetery","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eThe book that established Dalton Trevisan as one of Brazil's greatest authors returns with a new cover and texts on the back and back cover written by César Aira and Marçal Aquino, illustrious figures in national and international literature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Elephant Cemetery\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" originally published in 1964, is the book that established Dalton Trevisan as one of Brazil's greatest writers. After a warm reception upon his debut, with the 1959 book \u003cem\u003e\"Novelas Nada Exemplares\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" critics and readers alike fell head over heels for the Curitiba-born writer's minimalist short stories and keen eye. It's no coincidence, as some of the author's finest moments are found in this book. Such is the case with \"A Candle for Dario,\" which became a classic in Dalton's repertoire for exposing the cruelty of humankind in extreme situations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe downfall of man, both rural and urban, is portrayed in powerful short stories, in which Trevisan distills the themes that made him famous: betrayal (\"A beira do rio\"), jealousy (\"Caso de destipo\"), abuse (\"Questão de família\"), domestic violence (\"Ao nascer do dia\"), patriarchy (\"O primo\"), prostitution (\"Dinorá, moça do prazer\"), and all the feelings that tend to fuel \"marital war,\" as the author himself so aptly defined in another famous book. There are also, of course, the drunkards by the river in the title story, a merciless portrait of the scourges of the metropolis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e But these tales would be just ordinary stories, heard “behind the door”, if it weren’t for the brilliant language created and polished to exhaustion by the author – when the ellipses say more than pages and pages of plot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThus, \u003cem\u003e*Elephant Cemetery*\u003c\/em\u003e became an important chapter in the immense novel about private life that Dalton Trevisan has been writing for decades, definitively cementing his name among the greatest authors in Brazilian literature. For writer and screenwriter Marçal Aquino, who penned the cover story of this latest edition: \" * \u003cem\u003eElephant Cemetery*\u003c\/em\u003e is the cornerstone of the literary monument that Dalton Trevisan has built over the last sixty years.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\"I discovered Dalton's work in the mid-1970s, when the translation of \u003cem\u003eThe Vampire of Curitiba\u003c\/em\u003e was published in Argentina. Shortly after, I began traveling to Brazil and buying all his books I could find. [...] If you ask me what my favorite is, I might mention \u003cem\u003eBread and Blood\u003c\/em\u003e , in which his bloodthirsty minimalism was sublimated. However, I like everything he wrote: his speed, his \u003cem\u003enonsensical\u003c\/em\u003e prose, an antidote to so much useless baroque, his distrust of marriage, and his love for humanity.\" – César Aira\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159245406460,"sku":"9788501921178","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/359454cbc0c5bc1a6e79f1e49304c06e.jpg?v=1783743520"},{"product_id":"35-noites-de-paixao-contos-escolhidos-edicao-de-bolso","title":"35 Nights of Passion: Selected Stories (Paperback)","description":"\"I consider Dalton Trevisan an excellent short story writer, who maintains a firm path. He had the courage to adopt the short narrative at a time when it was not yet prevalent.\" Antônio Candido, Veja Magazine \"Trevisan is brilliant at conveying the tone, the atmosphere, the reality of the facts. His art is courageous.\" The New York Times Two short stories added to the book 33 selected short stories, making up 35 short stories by award-winning Curitiba native Dalton Trevisan. Selection made by the author himself, who considers these texts the best in his entire oeuvre. Lean and dry short stories that portray his first-rate fiction. The collection features acclaimed stories such as \"Capitu sou eu,\" \"A faca no coração,\" \"Lincha tarado, lincha,\" and \"Cemitério de elefantes,\" among others. Trevisan's recurring themes reappear: the disasters of love, private hells, the war of the sexes, scenes from everyday life, the human condition. All composed with exquisite poetic acuity. Nothing is lost in the precious essence of his plots. The writer's books have been translated into several languages, including English, Spanish, and Italian. In Hungary, some of his short stories inspired a TV series. In Brazil, Trevisan's texts have been adapted for film and television.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159323132156,"sku":"9788577991617","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/7d22693d5e1ab3eb2291044cd0215527.jpg?v=1783741880"},{"product_id":"o-passaro-de-cinco-asas","title":"The five-winged bird","description":"With Dalton Trevisan, the Brazilian short story was renewed. In the field of language, the author brought to fiction an agile, lively, nimble idiom, drawn from the most diverse popular environments, capturing the colloquial with rare mastery. Regarding the structure of the short story, he achieved new effects through narrative synthesis, fusing, juxtaposing, or contrasting planes, so as to, in a minimal amount of space and time, encompass a greater breadth and depth of aspects of life. Dalton achieves, always with astonishing economy of means, the feat of saying much while saying little. A perpetually dissatisfied writer, Dalton Trevisan constantly polishes and re-polishes his previous books—a fact that can be seen by comparing their different editions. His new ones are also subjected to the same rigor, the same perfectionist treatment. He is an author in constant search for the best form, the precise, correct, and defining expression. Thanks to this care, his narrative technique and literary craft are exceptional. The technique and craft he employs reveal the dramas of a small, tiny humanity, a humanity whose heroism lies simply in living or surviving life's struggles. No one like him can rework the facts and give them dramatic, even tragic, grandeur. The universe of the short story writer from Paraná thus becomes a disturbing microcosm, the sum and summation of a vast world where the endless human comedy unfolds.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159388831996,"sku":"9788501013842","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/363464fee869935dac8cad3e65e2b8e5.jpg?v=1783742796"},{"product_id":"o-vampiro-de-curitiba","title":"The vampire of Curitiba","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2012 Camões Prize, Dalton Trevisan reissues his most notable work with a new cover and the inclusion of the short story \u003cem\u003eA velha querida.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Just as a vampire is capable of anything in its quest for blood satisfaction, the characters in the stories that comprise * \u003cem\u003eThe Vampire of Curitiba*\u003c\/em\u003e seek, without guilt, shame, or censure, pleasure at any cost. Considered a masterpiece by the author, this book showcases Dalton Trevisan at his most classic: objective, concise, minimalist, and fond of literary references of all kinds, taking his blend of irony and pessimism to the most shocking and repulsive extremes of human degradation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThese stories represent extreme social, psychological or existential situations that, due to their absurdity, contain elements of parody, humor and fantasy, while also exploring the cruelty and sordidness revealed in the uncontrollable fantasies that determine the deepest impulses of human beings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"The reaction one has when reading Trevisan is a kind of anger. Anger at the perfection of the author's discretion, at his absolute moral invisibility, when we know he must be lurking, hidden behind his style. But this anger, one supposes, is exactly what Trevisan wants from his readers.\" - Michael Wood, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159454073084,"sku":"9788501013637","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/1a250bdb8f6faab1cb447a1a9077b07e.jpg?v=1783741706"},{"product_id":"crimes-de-paixao","title":"Crimes of passion","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eTen years after \u003cem\u003eElephant Cemetery\u003c\/em\u003e , this reunion with Dalton Trevisan.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAt that time, Dalton was a major name in Brazilian short stories, already consecrated by critics. Today, he is a major name in global short stories, translated into many languages and the subject of countless theses. The essential point is that in these ten years, we have seen the edition or reissue (and in Dalton's case, a reissue is virtually a new first edition, as he rewrote most of his works) of a dozen books of the highest literary caliber, which definitively established the new image of the short story in Brazil. An image that has been imitated and even copied by two generations of younger short story writers. After all, we all need a master. And he is there in \u003cem\u003e\"Novels Not Exemplary\u003c\/em\u003e , \u003cem\u003e\" \"Death in the Square\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" \u003cem\u003e\"Elephant Cemetery\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" \u003cem\u003e\"The Vampire of Curitiba\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" \u003cem\u003e\"Disasters of Love\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" \u003cem\u003e\"Conjugal War\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" \u003cem\u003e\"The King of the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e , \u003cem\u003e\" \"The Bird with Five Wings\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" \" \u003cem\u003eThe Knife in the Heart\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" \u003cem\u003e\"Abyss of Roses\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" and \u003cem\u003e\"The Trumpet of the Avenging Angel\u003c\/em\u003e .\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eA music critic wrote with admiration that Beethoven endlessly repeated the same melodic phrases, and therein lay his genius. He was never satisfied with the initial form or with successive forms, for creation is a leap toward the eternal. I won't compare Dalton to Beethoven, but the fact is that a similar observation has been made more than once regarding his recent stories, which repeat the misunderstandings and conflicts of Hansel and Gretel, of all the Hansel and Gretel of an irremediably unkempt Curitiba. I don't compare him to Beethoven, but I can't help but find him reminding me insistently of Jerome Bosch, whether in his Universe of Sexual Hells or in his Garden of Earthly Delights, so popular in the Middle Ages, whose customs and vices they represented.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eDalton Trevisan's latest books, especially this one \u003cem\u003e, Crimes of Passion\u003c\/em\u003e , show us the writer's meticulous descent into his own private hells, creating with his various stories a kind of grotesque canvas, with contrasting strokes of pathos and beauty. It has been said of Bosch that he used obscene perversions as an element of moral critique. At this point, we can't say that Dalton comes to us with moralizing intentions; he's not even a satirist (perhaps just a touch sadistic in the delight with which he describes small miseries, frustrated debauchery, and impotent fetishisms).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eHis style has changed significantly since the days of Joaquim and those pamphlets that would revolutionize Brazilian short stories. Being a viscerally literary writer, obsessively concerned with perfection, he increasingly distances himself from the \"literary style,\" stripping away everything that seems superfluous in fictional texts. In pursuit of absolute realism, he shifted the focus of his stories; they ceased to be narrated and became lived experiences. We rarely feel the presence of the \"author\" in them. It's a stripping down that already begins to border on hermeticism, as if the writer himself sometimes doesn't know what's going on or what his characters are thinking. Dalton's sentences are increasingly shorter, reduced to the bare minimum, to the essential. The use of dialogue is a way he found to interfere as little as possible with the story. His short stories aspire to remove the barrier between fiction and reality. Without ceasing to be short stories. Because we are faced with a writer who seems to me to be the most profoundly and anguishedly convinced that the act of writing, of creating, involves a limitless responsibility, as the main function of his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e- Fausto Cunha\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159455645948,"sku":"9788501013804","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/1bff36d087cd0c8a848dcca393d1626b.jpg?v=1783743428"},{"product_id":"misterios-de-curitiba","title":"Mysteries of Curitiba","description":"In this book of short stories, Dalton Trevisan, from Curitiba, portrays the small dramas and characters of his city, strikingly affecting men from all over the world.\n\n The mysteries take place in Curitiba — also recreated by the author's poetic gifts —, a city seen through the eyes of a man who is more sensitive than most of his fellow citizens to discovering things they cannot see, but his eyes see, passing through walls and fences. \nIn this narrative, every man is called John and every woman is called Mary. The old story of siblings, not only made of love, but of frustrations, because that's the point: each of us is a John or a Mary, here not only in love, but above all deceived, for a thousand reasons, by the illusions of love. Dalton Trevisan weaves countless variations around a single theme (and is there a theme more important than this?), sometimes mercilessly, but always with a sense of humor that is difficult to achieve (and he achieves) in dealing with something so serious, so fundamental.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159455842556,"sku":"9788501014405","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/a513d02dcea311b9e3797b3e32600641.jpg?v=1783743502"},{"product_id":"abismo-de-rosas","title":"Abyss of roses","description":"\" \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis \u003cem\u003eAbyss of Roses\u003c\/em\u003e , with twenty-one short stories, is not just another book by this unrepentant short story writer, who refuses to make the triple leap and even, to improve his inexhaustible capacity to create masterpieces, increasingly limits himself to his studio apartment, his built-in closet, the tiniest, most minimal plane of his territory.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e And it is there that Danton Trevisan plants the sovereign and unmistakable banner of his universe. Dalton, in effect, disdains the horizons of the latifundium; he does not desire the vertigo of the macrocosm; his working instrument is a probe, which only refines itself in depth. Here in this \u003cem\u003eAbyss\u003c\/em\u003e , he indulges in the usual acrobatics, in his ever more perfect flea circus. Because he is, by choice, condemned to the galleys of a hairshirt-like literary discipline, it is for this reason alone that he is today, and forever, a writer who invented his own space, without any condominium or concession.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159456203004,"sku":"9788501014979","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/12f4f54a92898375dc2e5c2467153584_e5ec98bb-9a4d-4592-b130-75392671781c.jpg?v=1783744042"},{"product_id":"a-faca-no-coracao","title":"The knife in the heart","description":"\" \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eA faca no coração\u003c\/em\u003e , the short story writer from Curitiba shows that human dramas are truly invariable.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"Here, Dalton Trevisan creates twenty-two short stories, within his artistic \u003cem\u003ereality\u003c\/em\u003e . Characters, dramas, tragedies, the pathetic and the sensitive. Human nature, a reflection and reference in the world of creation, is multifaceted, if art weren't a labyrinth of mirrors in search of its \u003cem\u003etruth\u003c\/em\u003e . Dalton Trevisan works in his \u003cem\u003elaboratory\u003c\/em\u003e . An alchemist, he shapes his \"monsters,\" cuts their flesh with fire and iron—the knife to the heart—to resolve their innards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In this dark world of exceptional cases, the erotic could not be absent, but in Dalton Trevisan the erotic is measured, sometimes sublimated, or sometimes just a farce that can reach hilarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn addition to the economy of means, the synthesis of language, and the cross-cutting of dialogue and narrative, Dalton Trevisan develops the temporal concretion or chronological cut, which is highly effective in the reduced (material) space of the short story. Although not a new aspect of his work, the author now decisively embraces the experimental, the research, and even certain \"hermetic\" resources of his process work satisfactorily, benefiting from a climate in which reality and fable intersect. – Assis Brasil\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159456628988,"sku":"9788501015402","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/9e9721385b58e1cbe14ddb9b3d8032ac.jpg?v=1783743010"},{"product_id":"capitu-sou-eu","title":"CAPITU IS ME","description":"After the “short stories,” Dalton Trevisan – one of Brazil’s leading and most acclaimed short story writers – returns to the longer narratives in this volume, set in the city of Curitiba.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159461478652,"sku":"9788501067876","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"desgracida","title":"Unfortunate","description":"With his unmistakable style, Dalton Trevisan proves, once again, why he is considered one of the greatest contemporary Brazilian short story writers. Winner of the 2003 Portugal Telecom Prize for \"Pico na Veina\" and the 2008 Clarice Lispector Award from the National Library Foundation for \"O Maníaco do Olho Verde,\" the author once again unleashes his biting language and caustic humor in \"DESGRACIDA,\" addressing the various facets of the human condition. Divided into two parts, the book begins with \"Ministórias\"—a selection of previously unpublished texts by the Vampire of Curitiba, which reaffirm Dalton's belief that he would only achieve perfection when he composed complete stories with just two or three lines. With each new book, his writing becomes leaner and more concise—meager, without being inane. Here, literally, for those who understand, half a word is enough. The renowned biting irony and habitual sarcasm of his stories are present in 90 short stories—some just one sentence long—that convey all the afflictions and joys of men and women, with intense eroticism and unusual dialogue. A collection of stories that portrays the reality of Brazil today, the disasters of love, scenes of everyday life, private hells, the war of the sexes. In the second part, \"Barely Traced Lines,\" texts are reproduced from old letters sent to friends such as Pedro Nava, Rubem Braga, and Otto Lara Rezende. In these correspondences, the then-young writer commits some \"sacrileges\" regarding some now-renowned works. In a text addressed to his friend Otto, for example, he proposes: \"Let's speak ill of the Grande Sertão. Will you break through or shall I begin?\", before continuing: \"A brilliant chronicler, with the light hand of a hummingbird, but—alas—a lesser novelist.\" The letters exchanged with these famous interlocutors reveal a little more about the ideas of this reclusive writer from Curitiba, averse to interviews, who has amassed a legion of fans that grows proportionally to his apparent shyness. The more he refuses to appear, the more eager critics and the public become for his next work. All information about the author is brief and self-contained, a fragment that merges with others to form a homogeneous piece—like many of his books. DESGRACIDA is another indispensable piece of the puzzle that is Dalton Trevisan's brilliant work.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159466393852,"sku":"9788501090768","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/4fcec79a63ec32d96bb069db6055fb25_7c24d74d-d27a-4ac0-aa3f-628cefaee38c.jpg?v=1783742258"},{"product_id":"o-anao-e-a-ninfeta","title":"The dwarf and the nymphet","description":"With his unmistakable style, Dalton Trevisan proves, once again, why he is considered one of the greatest contemporary Brazilian short story writers. Winner of the 2003 Portugal Telecom Prize for \"Pico na Veina\" and the 2008 Clarice Lispector Award from the National Library Foundation for \"O Maníaco do Olho Verde,\" he was a finalist for the Portugal Telecom Prize for his latest books, \"Violets and Peacocks\" (2010) and \"Desgracida\" (2011). Averse to interviews, the reclusive writer from Curitiba has amassed a legion of fans that grows proportionally to his apparent shyness. The more he refuses to appear, the more eager critics and the public become for his next work. All information about the author is brief and self-contained, a fragment that merges with others to form a homogeneous piece—like many of his books. In \"The Dwarf and the Nymph,\" his new collection of short stories, the enigmatic writer once again unleashes his biting language and unusual dialogue as he explores the many facets of the human condition. The renowned biting irony, intense eroticism, and characteristic sarcasm of his stories are present in 40 previously unpublished short stories, including the book's title. A welcome gift for fans and, for those unfamiliar with the Vampire of Curitiba's distinctive style, an excellent introduction to the work of one of Brazil's most renowned writers.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159472685308,"sku":"9788501094797","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/f35eff42fe3dac5c4c225b812f81e53b.jpg?v=1783743042"},{"product_id":"novelas-nada-exemplares","title":"Not at all exemplary novels","description":"\" \u003cp\u003eA young man in Curitiba has only one remedy: drown. Since there's no sea, a barrel of rum will do. But not everyone finds the courage or lucidity for the barrel of rum. Then there's the engagement, being engaged to something or someone, avoiding the nightly drizzle, finding a room with a sofa and a portrait of a dead relative hanging on the wall, drinking the coffee brought by his future mother-in-law, and, on Sundays, there's the sticky provincial dinner. The bride will embroider, sew, do anything with her hands, perhaps a caress. Women will always be sewing, single, married, widowed, old, or young, their fingers will be pricked by needles, until one day the sewing egg will roll from their hands and their heads will fall off forever—no, nothing lasts forever; even with the sewing egg lying on the floor, the neck is a useful target for a knife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eSome time ago, during Dalton Trevisan's debut book, this very same \"Novels undda Exemplares,\" Otto Maria Carpeaux committed, in my view, an excess of critical rigor. Impressed by what he called a \"provocation\" (the title inspired or counter-inspired by Cervantes), Carpeaux cast reservations on the book. But the very fact that Otto Maria Carpeaux unleashed the full weight of his critical laboratory upon the debutant was already revealing. For in Dalton Trevisan was born the great national short story writer we all admire today. Even in that fierce critique, Carpeaux recognized in Trevisan the \"attentive observer of the details of reality.\" And he pointed out that \"perhaps his true vocation is that of a chronicler of everyday life.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThis is not the place to delve into the conceptualization of genres. Novel, short story, chronicle—tons of volumes have been written delimiting the portions of each genre, and tons more will be written on the subject. One arrives at a result or no result, but what matters is knowing whether or not the author of a given novel, short story, or chronicle possesses the drive, the hunger of a writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Dalton has this hunger—a hunger never satisfied throughout these years in which, from his remote province, he continued to bombard friends and admirers with his short stories, which—at last—received the noble form of a book. And I believe that Dalton Trevisan, alongside this economical and ecumenical José J. Veiga, of \u003cem\u003eOs cavalinhos de platiplanto (The Little Horses of Platypus\u003c\/em\u003e ), constitutes the best we have in short stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThese less-than-exemplary novels\u003c\/em\u003e are, if I'm not mistaken, his first experiments in the genre that would make him famous and respected. Some of his finest moments are here, in this book—and I'll even name \"A Velha Querida\" and \"João Nicolau\" as two of his masterpieces. They are two nearly antagonistic experiences. In the first, it's the incisive episode, dense with notations and meanings, an adventure that lasts the space of a visit to the brothel. In the second, it's an entire existence traveled in leaps and bounds, the story of a man almost from cradle to grave. In both, the author displays the same firmness in eliminating the narrative's blind spots and the same precision in choosing the exact target and angle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eOf course, every reader will find their favorite work here. And every critic will have the right to accuse the Curitiba author of a monotonous obsession with the provinces: with the themes, the dramas, the lack of provincial humor. To justify or explain Dalton Trevisan's thematics, Carpeaux cites some modern authors whose company would honor any writer: Sartre, Camilo José Cela, Morávia. In reality, Trevisan fits appropriately into the nauseating line of literature, the line that doesn't use literature to save or accuse humanity, only to bring it closer to our retinas, to show it to ourselves, and, through different planes, through diverse portraits, to confirm that we are just like it, that we ourselves are those eternal provincial brides, those drunken and desperate men of drizzly nights, those slumped rapists of the roadside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eDalton Trevisan's fidelity to his world had an absurdly logical consequence: fidelity to the genre he chose to communicate this world to us. An example, if not unique, at least rare in any literature. This makes me want to quote Chekhov and Maupassant. But I'm not a critic. As a simple reader, it is my duty to express my respect and admiration for the work of the short story writer from Paraná, certain that his presence in our literature marks one of the purest and most beautiful moments of our literary era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e - Carlos Heitor Cony\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159526457596,"sku":"9788501015426","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/75e17b79473509327bd63f6b35810287_c9cf4841-3673-4464-a2e9-991dfa826415.jpg?v=1783741673"},{"product_id":"violetas-e-pavoes","title":"Violets and peacocks","description":"These 22 unpublished short stories by Dalton Trevisan, one of the most important Brazilian writers, are presented in the master's most perfect style: biting language, unusual dialogue and exacerbated eroticism.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159536386300,"sku":"9788501087027","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/b371bf39e744c1536e6c6a718b9063db.jpg?v=1783743388"},{"product_id":"nem-te-conto-joao","title":"I won't even tell you, João","description":"Created by the author based on ideas and excerpts from short stories published in his other books, the novel depicts the relationship between João and Mariazinha, a virgin (but full of libido) who tells him her stories. Mariazinha keeps João's desires burning and unsatisfied, like a modern-day Sheerazade. Dalton Trevisan, one of Brazil's greatest short-story writers, has only two published novels: A Polaquinha and Nem te conto, João. Possessing a unique, syntactic, and evocative style, he has received major literary awards for Portuguese-language authors, including the Camões Prize (2012); Machado de Assis (Brazilian Academy of Letters, 2012) for his body of work; the Portugal Telecom Prize 2003 for *Pico na veia*; the Clarice Lispector Prize from the National Library Foundation 2008 for *O maníaco do olho verde*; and the Jabuti Prize. • His work has been published in several countries, including the United States, France, Germany, Argentina, Portugal, and the Netherlands. In Hungary, some of his short stories inspired a television series. In Brazil, Trevisan's work has been adapted for film (Guerra conjugal, in 1975) and television.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159547396348,"sku":"9788501402875","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/f6f3cd6c878c7ef75882552813347890.jpg?v=1783742402"},{"product_id":"a-polaquinha","title":"The little Polish girl","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAfter being consecrated as a great short story writer, here is novelist Dalton Trevisan.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Polish girl\u003c\/em\u003e stands out in her world of curse and mercy. It's a story of mad love and eroticism, written with a masterful hand. The best Dalton at his best. A genuine, striking, unforgettable masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\"This art ultimately expresses itself through a merciful vision, of genuine compassion for the human adventure. The polaquinha is not the female replica of the Vampire; both are citizens of a Curitiba that is both real and unreal. The polaquinha revisits an eternal theme. There is much perdition in her quest. There is guilt and there is punishment. Life is relentless. It's not Dalton Trevisan who says so. It's life itself that usually says so.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe little Polish girl\u003c\/em\u003e is unforgettable. Especially if the reader, like this poor girl, is inclined to believe that one never knows anything about anyone. That's why it's worth continuing to inquire. And reading, renewed, refreshing, the novelist Dalton Trevisan.\" – Otto Lara Resende\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159678796028,"sku":"9788501027061","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/44a2e6231320489c7273c6544ab30f88_5005d149-302d-4519-85e8-6f13a21ce2e0.jpg?v=1776894589"},{"product_id":"macho-nao-ganha-flor","title":"Male does not get flower","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eOriginally published in 2006, and considered a turning point in Dalton Trevisan's career, \u003cem\u003eMacho não ganha flor\u003c\/em\u003e has a new cover and texts on the back and back cover by Augusto Massi and Caetano W. Galindo.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eCentral themes in Dalton Trevisan's work, violence and sex, gain even more relevance in the short stories of \u003cem\u003e\"Macho não ganha flor\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" first published in 2006. Renowned in the 1960s for his keen eye on reality, the Curitiba-born writer transposes the dramas of violent, oppressed, poor, and unsuccessful people into the 21st century. The \"Joões\" and \"Marias\" of yesteryear are now using crack, the thugs have adapted to new scams, and the shrill violence has surpassed all limits—the book is set in a time when nothing seems to constrain victims and perpetrators anymore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e These stories make even the most oblivious reader blush. Characters shrouded in the mists of anonymity are brought to the forefront here. Flirting with the police narrative, Trevisan gives prominence to his antiheroes, who narrate in the first person the misfortunes experienced in big cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\"Living in Vila, man, is very dangerous,\" one of the narrators summarizes. In these stories, it's as if Dalton's famous phrase resonates constantly: \"On every corner of Curitiba, a Raskolnikov greets you, his hand on the hatchet under his jacket.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In 22 short stories, \u003cem\u003eMacho não ganha flor (Macho doesn't win flowers)\u003c\/em\u003e shows an author—already in his octogenarian years—in full command of his craft and attentive to the movements of the society around him. A fiction writer who never lets go of his chronicler's gaze, he presents readers with a true modern classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\" \u003cem\u003eMacho não ganha flor\"\u003c\/em\u003e (2006) marks a turning point in the writer's career. The short stories return to a clearly narrative model and, along with \u003cem\u003e\"O maniaco do olho verde\"\u003c\/em\u003e (2008) and \u003cem\u003e\"Violets and Peacocks\u003c\/em\u003e \" (2009), form a remarkable novelistic trilogy. The gallery of new characters moves and traffics, in and out, from life to books. [...] Dalton captures the raw material of the fact in the exposed wire of the flagrant. The sentences are brief. They reveal an intense electric discharge. A short circuit between realism and invention. It seems like something a person \u003cem\u003ewould do\u003c\/em\u003e . How can they let a guy like that loose?\" - Augusto Massi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003e A new book, in which his cruel sense of humor rejoices with the most youthful verve about an ugly, hollow, and dirty world that is mine and yours every day. But which, above all, is our familiar world of Mr. Trevisan. [...] Read the first (very short) story and tell me if anyone out there has more strength in literature.\" – Caetano W. 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Among the sixteen short stories collected here are some classics from the Vampire of Curitiba's vast repertoire: \"Dinorá, Moça do prazer,\" \"Cântico dos cânticos,\" \"Lincha perrado, lyncha,\" \"Meu querido matou\" and \"Mister Curitiba.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e These stories are wrapped in a rich fabrication, typical of Dalton Trevisan's work, which places him in a select group of writers who have created true \"fictional worlds.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eDrawing on her renowned, economical writing, Trevisan covers a multitude of themes within the \"sexual\" arc: from guilt to sin; from rape to virginity; from betrayal to desire. Always subliminally maintaining a dialogue with religiosity, another defining characteristic of her characters. In a previously unpublished blurb written especially for this new edition, actress, writer, and screenwriter Fernanda Torres comments that \"desire, in this book, is synonymous with misery, sex without mercy, guilt without forgiveness. \u003cem\u003eErotic tales\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" the cover announces, \"I would say obscene. Obscene would be the most accurate term for this selection of gems.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Published between the 1960s and 1980s, these \u003cem\u003eErotic Tales\u003c\/em\u003e show how Dalton Trevisan transcends time while remaining relevant and current, even when discussing a subject as fluid, broad, and open to new interpretations as sex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159836344572,"sku":"9788501921161","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/585992db8094b887ed74283afdbd1a43_12fefc76-ff23-48a8-8f13-d3ffce146d32.jpg?v=1783742933"},{"product_id":"virgem-louca-loucos-beijos","title":"Crazy virgin, crazy kisses","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFurther exploring his immediate style, Dalton Trevisan brings together in \u003cem\u003eBread and Blood\u003c\/em\u003e stories where resentment and bitterness spill over into human actions.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eDalton Trevisan's subject is situations in which people suddenly have the stunning realization that their flawed lives will never be better. Truly terrifying moments emerge and demand acceptance. Trevisan doesn't waste words, quickly but surely sketching the setting, poring over the characters' psyches, emphasizing them while proposing their irremediable alienation. The full scope of a bitter and frustrated life is suggested in just a few pages. An unyielding focus on such intimate insights establishes a severe tone of dignity, even for the most immediate and petty human acts. This is first-rate fiction, in which enormous literary talent achieves what is even more important: a powerful imaginative compassion. – Bruce Allen, \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\"In the context of Dalton Trevisan's stories, being a woman in Brazil is like living in hell. Seductress or victim are the only roles reserved for her. If she finds pleasure in sex, she is sinful or has been dragged by men to feel it, against their will. Brazilian men—embodied in Nelsinho, the vampire—are no better: they hate and adore women, condemned to pursue them relentlessly.\" – Vivian Mercier, \u003cem\u003eWorld\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159868850428,"sku":"9788501015679","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/585c7c8883d8faea6c98a70968729e75_f698c5ca-e14d-4a48-b405-103430269581.jpg?v=1783742651"},{"product_id":"a-trombeta-do-anjo-vingador","title":"The Trumpet of the Avenging Angel","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \"\" \u003cstrong\u003eClose to haiku.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eDalton Trevisan, one might say, possesses a flair for describing everyday situations of the lower middle class, whether urban or rural, whose sweaty hands, kinks, and eternal romantic misadventures form the backdrop, the nucleus from which one of the most original modern short stories springs. In this book, the Paraná-born short story writer returns with his vampires—fat men, maidens, old men, and disillusioned women—already featured in his work. In the speeches naming impressions (drunken macaw, wet bitch, king of the night), places (Hotel Carioca), figures (João, Maria, André), authorities (the doctor, the sergeant), gastronomic preferences (gizzard, heart and sambiquira, delicate cornmeal bread), devotions (Jesus Cristinho, Marian brother) and the taste for diminutives (pink finger, little foot, little goldfinch mouth) ways of sharpening the irony and intensifying the climate of humor and the grotesqueness of reality reappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn one of his rare interviews, Trevisan once expressed a desire to remain a short story writer, and, if possible, to increasingly reduce the length of his stories until he reached the perfection of haiku. Apparently, in \u003cem\u003eThe Trumpet of the Avenging Angel\u003c\/em\u003e , his intention also extends to the continuity of themes. The tone of these 19 books is recurrent, circular, as if uniting them in a sequential line from his previous books. The feelings of his characters, drawn with a pincer from the average Brazilian city, with habits and customs embedded in the modest or well-off house, in the farms, farms, and villages, remain enduring. From the plaster elephant on the refrigerator and the mug bearing the inscription \u003cem\u003e\"Congratulations\"\u003c\/em\u003e to the red velvet sofa, the Formica set in the living room, the double bed, no one like Dalton to photograph the self-devouring moments of the petite bourgeoisie subjected to their ridicule.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eSome people point to repetitiveness in these stories by the author of \u003cem\u003e\"Elephant Cemetery\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" or a monotonous character, which seems to overwhelm the reader. Or, even, that Dalton's tales are the same, to which the author merely adds new details or situations in each book. If viewed together, however, and studied within a broad sociological framework, these nocturnal stories from Trevisan would form a tragic epic of the everyday life of the lower middle class, a merciless and real romance, and not just of Curitiba, the place where the fiction writer lives and which he chose as the center of his dramas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe creator of the Curitiba vampire chose grotesque humor, the bouffonnerie, to shape his tales. The legion of scoundrel heroes, kings of libido, anonymous men cultivating the land and demonstrating machismo, old men with thick drool and voracious appetites betray a certain compassion in the short story writer for his characters, victims of stagnation, sexual or economic repression, and a false concept of morality. Broken homes, marital war, maidens sinning in the Curitiba afternoon—all recall other phases and stories by the same Trevisan, who only retells stories with a deliberate purpose: to rehash the moral misery in which certain segments of society, divided by classes and prejudices, live. There is no room for romanticism in his tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eReliving memories of this middle-class tragedy—occasionally anointed by the specter of loneliness—instead of repeating itself, the short story writer reiterates human misunderstandings, sexual repression generating perversions, and social instability provoking imbalances. Why does the author need to rename or rename his unusual characters? Hansel and Gretel are quite common around here; they don't need other names. They can be seen in Curitiba, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Campo Grande, and even Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. All of this is marked by simple, clear language, elliptical to the extreme, ever closer to the haiku intended by the author, which for 20 years has been a fixture in modern Brazilian short stories, in the direct lineage of Machado's humor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e - Jorge de Souza Araújo\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159931764988,"sku":"9788501018342","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/78a522a7daf2d90538b7b685c2e66b1f.jpg?v=1783742017"},{"product_id":"querido-assassino","title":"Dear killer","description":"The vampire of Curitiba has been left in the dust. He no longer needs to stand on the corner, hand in pocket, hiding the werewolf's hairy paw, waiting for the virgin's kiss, the caterpillar's bite. Dalton Trevisan has already hung it in the closet, next to the calendar of saints. And he departed, an adventurous poet of the city's minuscule\/capital-letter dramas. To the breathtaking revelation of his new and rich characters, always the same in appearance, always different in essence. What also appears in this \"Dear Assassin\" is a new surprise from an increasingly better writer, reserved, above all, for those who have become crystallized in the ease of misreading and assuming the truth conforms to the cliché of incompetence: \"But he always writes the same book!\" Panic eroticism—as M. Cavalcanti Proença aptly wrote—anarchic morality, merciless humor, Dalton adds 16 more short stories to his oeuvre, 16 pearls set in the jewel engraved with the initials DT. Love triangles, adultery, seduction, murder, beatings, rape. Love and hate. Dalton's world. Violence and kitsch, denunciation and farce: \"Dear Assassin\" fascinates the reader like that mother-of-pearl brooch on a velvet neckline. With his guerrilla style of precise dialogue, hallucinatory ellipses, and unexpected images that target the readers' reason and emotions, these poor puppets manipulated by the Mephistophelian and miraculous author. With such arts and magic, why does Dalton still need an old vampire?","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174819348732,"sku":"9788501023353","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/b1ab3366a2e25b32a512fa4c0af0cc0b.jpg?v=1783742829"},{"product_id":"rita-ritinha-ritona","title":"Rita Ritinha Ritona","description":"Vampires flee from crosses and garlic. The most famous Brazilian vampire, Dalton Trevisan, from Curitiba, flees from journalists. He doesn't give interviews and, like his friends from Transylvania, he also doesn't allow himself to be photographed. Aloof, he lives for his writing, especially his short stories, of which he has become a master. His dedication enchants audiences and critics. Winner of the 2003 Portugal Telecom Prize with Pico in his veins, Dalton proves with each new work why he is one of the most renowned contemporary Brazilian short story writers. In Rita Ritinha Ritona, a collection of short stories, Dalton Trevisan narrates with biting humor the fatalities and eccentricities of human relationships. His native Curitiba always appears as one of the main characters. There are seventeen short stories, fifteen of which are previously unpublished, in his characteristic telegraphic style, where periods and dashes count as much as words. Here, we find lolitas who enchant older men, urban violence, and overwhelming passions. Rita Ritinha Ritona speaks of the disasters of love, private hells, the war of the sexes, scenes from everyday life, and the human condition. All composed with a precise search for words. Nothing is lost in the essence of her plots. The texts, constructed with cutting irony and caustic humor, cast an objective eye on the human condition.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174820659452,"sku":"9788501072320","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/b2d50b2f6d64eb70dcd3691e1427cdf4.jpg?v=1783742479"},{"product_id":"pico-na-veia","title":"PEAK IN THE VEIN","description":"A good short story is a surefire shot to the heart. Once again, Dalton Trevisan hits the mark. In PICO NA VEIA, the author uses short, dry stories, constructed with biting irony and caustic humor, to cast an objective eye on the human condition, in all its hidden and ambiguous aspects. These concise texts portray the reality of today's Brazil, where poverty, unemployment, and despair in the face of hopelessness lead to suicide, humiliation, fear, bitterness, and sexual exploitation—particularly of women—in a first-rate fiction. PICO NA VEIA is a collection of about two hundred short stories. Some are longer, but for the most part, the book is a succession of mini-stories. In them, Trevisan's recurring themes reappear: the disasters of love, private hells, the war of the sexes, scenes from everyday life, the human condition. Everything is composed with an almost stingy choice of words, only forgiven by the poetic acuity of the best haikus. Nothing is lost in the precious essence of his plots. Many years ago, Dalton Trevisan stated that he would only achieve perfection when he composed complete stories with just two or three lines. In PICO NA VEIA, literally, for the wise, half a word is enough. Dalton Trevisan—considered by critics as the writer who best knew how to give dignity to human feelings—shows that less is more. With just a few words and other graphic symbols, PICO NA VEIA conveys all the afflictions of men and women. Little is known about Dalton Trevisan as a person. He guards his privacy closely, does not give interviews, and does not allow himself to be photographed, frustrating many with his irrevocable refusal. To those who ask him for interviews, he responds that to know more about his life, one need only read his books. He is there, body and soul. And, in PICO NA VEIA, another facet of his character is revealed.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174859260156,"sku":"9788501065490","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/45480f044c5caf7710418c5ffc0488e8.jpg?v=1783743667"},{"product_id":"pao-e-sangue","title":"Bread and blood","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e Further exploring his immediate style, Dalton Trevisan brings together in \u003cem\u003eBread and Blood\u003c\/em\u003e stories where resentment and bitterness spill over into human actions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eDalton Trevisan's subject is situations in which people suddenly have the stunning realization that their flawed lives will never be better. Terrible moments of truth emerge and demand acceptance. Trevisan doesn't waste words, sketching the setting quickly but surely, poring over the characters' psyches, emphasizing them while proposing their irremediable alienation. The full scope of a bitter and frustrated life is suggested in a few pages. An unyielding focus on such intimate insights establishes a severe tone of dignity, even for the most immediate and petty human acts. This is first-rate fiction, in which enormous literary talent achieves what is even more important: a powerful imaginative compassion. – \u003cstrong\u003eBruce Allen\u003c\/strong\u003e , \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\"In the context of Dalton Trevisan's stories, being a woman in Brazil is like living in hell. Seductress or victim are the only roles reserved for her. If she finds pleasure in sex, she is sinful or has been dragged by men to feel it, against their will. Brazilian men—embodied in Nelsinho, the vampire—are no better: they hate and adore women, condemned to pursue them relentlessly.\" – \u003cstrong\u003eVIVIAN MERCIER\u003c\/strong\u003e , \u003cem\u003eWorld\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174973227260,"sku":"9788501031853","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/81fafaaed115ecdbc8959c59f0c54b20_6adfc38d-c8de-43ed-8824-cb86c32a035a.jpg?v=1783742902"},{"product_id":"o-beijo-na-nuca","title":"The kiss on the neck","description":"Dalton Trevisan's forty-sixth book, *O beijo na nuca*, brings together 48 short stories and marks the master of Brazilian short stories' return to longer stories. At once ironic and revealing, the title blends the tragic and passionate stories that recur throughout the book, but also serves, in part, as an image for the renowned author's incisive and rapid-fire language. Dalton fictionalizes the unfortunate cyclist, the unfortunate man who was run over; the enigmatic Sinbad and his adventures; and without abandoning his good old characters, the traditional colonel. Recognized worldwide, translated into many languages, and the subject of countless studies, Dalton Trevisan returns to longer stories with greater lyricism in *O beijo na nuca*. • Possessing a unique, syntactic, and evocative style, he has received major literary awards for Portuguese-language authors, such as the Camões Prize (2012); the Machado de Assis Prize (Brazilian Academy of Letters, 2012) for his body of work; The 2003 Portugal Telecom Award for Pico; the 2008 Clarice Lispector Award from the National Library Foundation for The Green-Eyed Maniac; and the Jabuti Award. His work has been published in several countries, including the United States, France, Germany, Argentina, Portugal, and the Netherlands. In Hungary, some of his short stories inspired a television series. In Brazil, Trevisan's work has been adapted for film (Guerra conjugal, in 1975) and television.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174983614716,"sku":"9788501068781","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/580712c1f5b92f71e0b6619c5746b293.jpg?v=1783742748"},{"product_id":"novos-contos-eroticos","title":"New erotic stories","description":"This anthology of short stories features thirty stories featuring a wide variety of characters. The teacher and the student, the bride, the uncle, the stepfather, and the widow navigate the landscapes of Curitiba, but they could be found in the squares, homes, hotels, and schools of any city. In \"New Erotic Tales,\" Dalton Trevisan's writing, marked by insightful observation of everyday life, is charged with provocation and remains ever-present.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175117177084,"sku":"9788501402707","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/4a4fdd46be5a94ecffd59282597824ea_7d22940f-29bc-41c6-a3e4-758c70f90e04.jpg?v=1783743481"},{"product_id":"lincha-tarado","title":"Lynch pervert","description":"(...) Today marks seventy-five days since her death. And twenty-two years since our marriage. I hold no complaints against her. She was so frugal, she only used half of the money. Why didn't she spend it all? It wasn't enough, she'd help me. I didn't have the courage. Do you know who sewed this outfit? Is there a woman like her? There's no shortage of candidates. My daughters think I should. A young widow, single with gifts. Even with a gold tooth. One I don't even deserve. So adorned and lush. If it was God's plan, I know well, I must conform. During the day I distract myself in the workshop. But at night? Thinking of her, I beat myself up all night. My bed, in it I lay. A hummingbird feather quilt, with it I covered myself. A sweet rocking chair, in it I rocked me. Turning out the light, I lifted my nightgown. Blind, suddenly I saw—on the white back—two phosphorescent moons. Jewish longing for the body? My eyes are tired, I can barely read. I shave every morning, I still trim my mustache. She died—and I haven't shaved it. My eye has been dry for three days. I slap myself hard. She cries, damn it. She, Maria, who won't leave the sergeant. \"I'll arrest that bum now.\" \"For God's sake, sergeant. Don't do this.\" \"The bandit needs a lesson.\" She offers the black nipple to the starving baby: \"The culprit is Balaio de Pulga. There's no room for a table or chair. Narrow corridor, two or three crates, plus the drunks—always room for one more.\" \"The sergeant should close it. It's a disaster.\" João staggers out of Balaio. A river of foam pours into the square—where it falls, the grass no longer grows. \"Hold on to the little man! Careful, isn't that the little pistol in your hand?\" The resounding shout and two accurate shots in the full moon. \"There are no men here.\" He stumbles home and puts his boot in the door. Maria escapes through the window. \"No one can handle that little man. The neighbor's rooster won't stay still.\" João steadies himself on the fence, closes one eye, and amidst the trumpet call, he shoots and falls. \"Did you know him, big-headed one?\" In the morning, the woman returns, wary. Laughing happily, João corners her in the kitchen. 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The stupendous, the marvelous thing about Dalton Trevisan's succinct stories is his acute capture of all the popular myths, the clichés: \"\"now I was a married woman and couldn't talk to just any man\"\" or \"\"I always tried to bring comfort to the home. I never cared about expense.\"\" They are the continuous barrage of the war of the sexes, this \"\"domestic Iliad\"\" as the Curitiba-born writer himself calls it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eDalton Trevisan's greatness lies in giving Brazilian urban literature perhaps the most unusual and poignant Kitsch Selections ever assembled in the Americas. Dalton Trevisan collects taboos and popular ideals and presents the reader with a yellowed album of tacky photographs and postcard poses colored with glitter. When a husband attacks his cheating wife before his very eyes, the Latin melodrama wavers between laughter and tears: \"\"The lover rushed in furiously, the woman on her knees announced the fruit of her womb.\"\" An entire subculture of Leonardo da Vinci's \"Holy Supper,\" silver, enthroned over the dinner table, springs from this phrase; It is all the Catholic iconography in bad taste, of Virgins fainting before the Announcement made by the Angel, reproduced in penny prints that emerges in the popular mind and that the author with wisdom and perfect dosage collects and embeds in his network of everyday life that always touches on the metaphysical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe banal always contains a desire to surpass itself that often leads to a transcendence of the prosaic itself. Only apparently is Dalton Trevisan a naturalist: when João misses the Maria he used to torment, he mixes his anguish with the practical-disgusting aspect: \"If it wasn't her, who would squeeze the pimples on his back?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Curitiba, sister to Joyce's Dublin, is that long journey of a writer scrutinizing his city from within, in its sublime or cruel motivations, monstrous social injustices and dedications of a heroic fidelity never rewarded, of dreams nurtured by women's magazines, by saccharine radio programs and lying horoscopes, Capricho and Ilusão that reveal themselves to be sordid and macabre realities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eDalton Trevisan doesn't just record this cornucopia of unsatisfied lechery, of husbands fearful of being murdered with ground glass in their food by the partners they martyr. He does more: he fully adheres to the superstitions and moral codes of his characters. There's no distancing in his narrative: it's about us, it's about himself that he speaks, it's about his self-inspected condition that he writes. Modestly, he would consider himself the last poster boy in his city's central square, when his entire splendid gallery of short stories proves, book after book, that he is the subtlest and most porous of all portraitists. He is the photographer who identifies with the grotesqueness of his subjects, the rococo of their poses reflected in the rococo of their rhetorical phrases, capsules of the commonplace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe admirable author of Death in the Square, Conjugal War, Elephant Cemetery, The Vampire of Curitiba, and The Bird with Five Wings doesn't fit the schematic label of \"a moralist.\" And with the exception of the Marquis de Sade, what writer isn't a moralist in his own way? (And perhaps even the Divine Marquis possesses an ethical coherence imperceptible by normal standards). Dalton Trevisan seems like a literary incarnation of Bosch: his concerns are all religious, his stories always lead to the cardinal sins: advance, lust, pride, envy. The greatest reward of these puzzles posed by the author lies in their mystery and the multiplicity of their interpretations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIs Dalton Trevisan a Dante who crossed limbo or a Lazarus who passed through spiritual death? Rare in any literature are the authors who formulate to the reader's astuteness perennial riddles about man, the eternal executioner of those who love him. With Dalton Trevisan, finally, seeking these riddles isn't synonymous with finding them in foreign texts. They are there, published, in every bookstore, perhaps even orderable by mail order? They are snapshot albums of the Brazilian, a being universalized by the perfect style of this \"vampire of souls\" and radiologist of the psyche of this people made up of loving and unloved Johns and Marthas. 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Racing his bicycle through the urban maze of cars, buses, and trucks, the cyclist overcomes all obstacles. Or does he? Before being illustrated by the multi-talented artist Odilon Moraes, the short story that inspired this unpublished edition was reworked by the author and republished several times over the years. *The Cyclist* appeared twice in the newspaper Gazeta do Povo in the 1950s, both as a report and as a fictional work. When it finally reached print, it was included in the author's celebrated works, such as Disasters of Love (1968), Mysteries of Curitiba (1968), and The Kiss on the Back of the Neck (2014), always offering a renewed portrait of the man in the saddle and the city in which he lives. The cyclist's courage and speed amidst urban dangers are celebrated by the narrator, while the \"unwanted of the people\" maintains its presence undaunted: death constantly insists on asking for a ride, even in the face of the refusal of the one it bothers, who pretends not to see it. However, even though he tries to ignore it, the man, \"defenseless and fragile as he is,\" is left vulnerable before the giant monster, the truck, in its own labyrinth, the urban space, and suffers an accident. But no one can decipher Dalton's riddles, and the story ends shrouded in mystery. According to Augusto Massi, professor of Brazilian Literature at the University of São Paulo (USP), in a text that provides reading keys and tips for classroom work, \"Dalton masterfully blends reality and fiction.\" Massi also believes that \"turning the corner of the 21st century, the story remains extremely relevant. Just as Dalton Trevisan's moviola recreated the cyclist's odyssey in the space of a single day, illustrator Odilon Moraes managed to capture all the tragic and lyrical elements in a prolonged, cinematic traveling shot.\" The combination of Dalton's fast-paced prose and equally agile illustrations gave rise to Odilon's The Cyclist, a masterpiece that made the writing of one of our greatest living writers accessible to readers of all ages.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176287387900,"sku":"9786585954037","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/e50f6950d92d4b7f9e1afa30daa0d28b.jpg?v=1783742780"},{"product_id":"chuva","title":"Rain","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eDalton Trevisan, author of unforgettable short stories and winner of the main literary awards in the Portuguese language – such as the Camões Prize and the Machado de Assis Prize from the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL) –, and award-winning artist Eloar Guazzelli come together in this book to capture the essence of \u003cem\u003erainy\u003c\/em\u003e days.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In 1951, the Gazeta do Povo newspaper published the first version of \"Chuva,\" a short story by award-winning author Dalton Trevisan. Now, many years later, the story has been republished in a new book illustrated by Eloar Guazzelli, a renowned Brazilian illustrator, comic book artist, and art director.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Rain\"\u003c\/em\u003e is poetic prose that portrays the natural phenomenon as, at once, a setting, a main character, and a supporting character. And as a social phenomenon. In everyone's lives—those indoors or outdoors, downtown or on the outskirts—it is present. Rain prevails over rich and poor, humans and animals, living and dead, making no distinction between place, person, or social class. Everything is transformed with its arrival. And, drop by drop, throughout the story told in this work, a panorama of life in metropolises emerges, marked by the urban problems it causes in everyday life, as well as by the different realities of life we know all too well. \"The story is structured around this dramatic back-and-forth between those besieged outside and those waging a fierce struggle to enter the house,\" writes Augusto Massi, professor of Brazilian Literature at the University of São Paulo (USP), in his text on the work, which provides keys to its reading and guidelines for classroom use. Little by little, Dalton reveals to us a social expression of rain. Through a series of questions, he hints at how rain affects the lives of those who work: 'What happened to the Turks selling apples on the street?'; 'Guards open their arms on the street corner and whistle: 'Why is it raining, Sir?'; 'And the ice cream vendor, what does he do with his ice cream?'\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe illustrations by award-winning artist Eloar Guazzelli brilliantly complement what Dalton Trevisan wrote in the early 1950s, reflecting aspects of our reality to this day. After all, since the beginning of time, and there's no way to change this fact, rain has been beating down on everyone's head, roof, and chimney. 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These are the characters of Dalton Trevisan, a 76-year-old Curitiba native who is one of the most important living Brazilian writers, a master of the short, dry story, sharp as the cold Curitiba wind, the setting for his characters. It is through its streets that the fish market elephants walk, or drag themselves, Dinorá, the girl of pleasure, the fat Carlota and her daughter Lili, Dorinha weak of heart. Ordinary characters, in stories where there are no great tragedies or exceptional subjects, as Fausto Cunha says in the introduction to this Elephant Cemetery, and who advises the reader: \"Don't worry about the stories. If they don't end, it's because the characters have returned to their normal lives, or Dalton didn't want to accompany them any longer. They are all alive; the distance between the pages of this book and reality is shorter than that between one street and another.\" The setting for his stories, Curitiba is also the hermit's cave of Dalton himself, who debuted in 1945 with Serenata ao Luar (Serenata ao Luar), which he disowns, as well as Sete Anos de Pastor (Seven Years as a Shepherd), published the following year. Between 1946 and 1948, he edited the magazine Joaquim, which featured articles by intellectuals such as Antônio Cândido, Mário de Andrade, and Otto Maria Carpeaux, as well as translations of Joyce, Proust, and Sartre. In 1959, he published *Novelas não exemplares*, which won the Jabuti Prize (along with *Cemitério dos Elefantes*), but which the author did not go to receive. This gave rise to the myth of the recluse who refuses to be photographed, refuses to leave Curitiba, refuses to answer the phone, and communicates with the world through notes signed simply \"D. Trevis.\" A fame that turned the title of one of his books, The Vampire of Curitiba, into a nickname, and which he nurtures, as in the text he used to give to journalists seeking interviews: \"The vampire hates people he doesn't know. He doesn't consider himself a difficult figure; he runs into you every day on every corner of Curitiba.\" He is the author of 34 books, which have been translated into Spanish, English, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, and Danish, and his book The Conjugal War was adapted for the cinema by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade in 1975.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176711471356,"sku":"9788501016539","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/036b5184015a555a76fa5ae5a8684998_8889ca3e-2c15-4b7d-bf63-5b0fb688b335.jpg?v=1776890026"},{"product_id":"234","title":"234","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eIn \u003cem\u003e234\u003c\/em\u003e , Dalton Trevisan from Curitiba shows a little more of his unmistakable and intense writing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"\"In bed, the husband says:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e — You are fat, yes. But you are clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e — ...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e — You're ugly, right? But it's free.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eA girl? Yes, it was. There was this story. Walking on a quiet road, I bumped into her. Really crazy. Then it happened. Was she pregnant? I didn't stick around to find out. Did this other girl know me? I think there's something like that. I was passing by on the road, she was coming. I asked her for the time. We started chatting and stuff. Merry Christmas, I said. Then she saw the knife: \"It's clean. I don't want you to kill me. I just don't want to die.\" I used it. I kept it and stuff. Within the rules.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e — Do you know who knocked on my bedroom door at three in the morning?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e — Oh, friend... Who could it be?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e — The Lord Jesus. He really wanted to talk to me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e — Not that one. 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