{"title":"Evandro Affonso Ferreira","description":"\u003cp\u003eMineiro de Araxá, radicado em São Paulo há 40 anos, Evandro Affonso Ferreira surgiu na literatura em 2000 – apresentado por José Paulo Paes. Participou de uma coletânea de contos em Portugal (Editora Cotovia), organizada por Alcir Pécora. É autor, entre outros, de Minha mãe se matou sem dizer adeus (Prêmio APCA de melhor romance de 2010, finalista do Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura 2011 e do Jabuti 2011), O mendigo que sabia de cor os adágios de Erasmo de Rotterdam (Prêmio Jabuti 2013) e Nunca houve tanto fim como agora (Prêmio APCA de melhor romance de 2017 e Prêmio Machado de Assis – Biblioteca Nacional 2018), todos pela Editora Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"vez-em-quando-billie-holiday","title":"Once in a while, Billie Holiday","description":"\u003cp\u003e Evandro Affonso Ferreira's \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Billie Holiday\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\" tells the story of Diadorino, a young man born amid the brutality of the backlands, who dreams of becoming Diadorina, \"a beautiful, warlike, feminine, and feminist woman.\" Thus, the book draws on literary references and avant-garde women of all times to create a poetic and utterly original narrative, a hallmark of the author.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eYoung Diadorino, the central character of \u003cem\u003e\"Once in a While, Billie Holiday\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" is huddled under the table, terrified. Born into the brutality of the backlands, he suffers from the constant beatings administered by the colonel who raised him, infuriated by the delicate features of his mother, and therefore those of a woman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The story's narrator is the only person who understands Diadorino's plight. She knows his main desire: to transition to female. In various ways, the narrating voice encourages him to come out of hiding and follow his will. First, it promises him the protection and safety generated by the conversation they are having—which is the book itself: \"Come, come here, into the protective pages of this book, shelter [...] come, no gunman will enter here.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eShe also resorts to tailor-made stories to pull Diadorino out of his paralysis. In these cases, a whole host of characters from Guimarães Rosa's fictional universe are mobilized to force him to move, going far beyond the simple coincidence of his name with that of the character from \u003cem\u003eGrande sertão: veredas\u003c\/em\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Finally, the narrator praises other women, great feminists and libertarians of all time: artists, activists, and thinkers—like Billie Holiday, Angela Davis, and many others. Among them, a quintet stands out: Simone de Beauvoir, Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt, Edith Stein, and Anna Akhmatova. To become a sextet, Diadorina is missing. The narrator encourages the young man to make the transition: \"Come complete this new feminine, feminist, socialist, and spiritualist sextet [...].\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAnd perhaps jazz is indeed a good shortcut to understanding Evandro Afonso Ferreira's unique style, his distinctive diction, and the importance he places on the sonority of phrasing. His words form a highly technical improvisation, with themes and variations following one another, and the notes, or syllables, linking together, echoing one another. \u003cem\u003eAt times, Billie Holiday\u003c\/em\u003e is, therefore, like a saxophone solo: beautiful, unpredictable, and full of invention.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159399678204,"sku":"9788501923073","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/e2280e46b500952fcb941efda37fe5d8_559f91c0-52ef-4e25-9986-a97e2de0866e.jpg?v=1778815021"},{"product_id":"os-piores-dias-de-minha-vida-foram-todos","title":"The worst days of my life were all","description":"FROM THE 2013 JABUTI AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR In *The Worst Days of My Life Were All*, the reader finds themselves faced with an imaginary dialogue between the narrator—a woman in a hospital bed—as she walks naked through the streets of the metropolis. In her reveries, she observes human vanity while recalling her losses and her relationship with her deceased writer friend. She compares her dramas to those of the mythological figure Antigone. Evandro Affonso Ferreira strikes a perfect rhythm for the character who no longer sees hope in life. With this book, Evandro reaches the apex of his stories begun in *My Mother Killed Herself Without Saying Goodbye*. It is the remarkable conclusion to the trilogy also comprising *The Beggar Who Knew Erasmus of Rotterdam's Adages by Heart*.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159426056444,"sku":"9788501065520","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/b48dcd525c87835762399836603140bd_02a0e241-cf24-4b60-bbd1-2bb8a348a6f1.jpg?v=1778728407"},{"product_id":"rei-reves","title":"King Reverse","description":"\u003cp\u003e In a blend of classical literary references and contemporary narrative experimentation already characteristic of Evandro Affonso Ferreira's poetic prose, \u003cem\u003eRei Revés\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the tragedy of an imprisoned ruler who suffers the loss of a son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e From Leo Lama's text for the book's blurb: \"Before your eyes, reader, a volume that shamelessly invades the mythical. [...] In these pages, evoked as judges, masters, witnesses to the apex of human pain, are the tragedians mingled with the gods, the people, the angels, the birds. There is no respite. There is no permission for the banal. Tragedy is relentless and is there to purge, not to weave the ephemeral spindles of the psychological, the mundane. The chorus is the narrative itself, investigating and contradicting itself, affirming perplexity. The narrator suffers, unable to find a way to tell the story. Everything flaunts the end in a journey that cannot be completed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\" \u003cem\u003eKing Revés\u003c\/em\u003e ,\" by Evandro Affonso Ferreira, is a book that traverses the pressing tragic. Something that exists for everyone, without distinction. There are no sides, parties, ideologies, or biographical concerns. In these scores, the suffering of an imprisoned ruler, who has just lost his son's son, is a subject of anguished inspiration, and goes far beyond political or factual interest. There, in the metaphysical fluttering of the pennant, where only the anuns penetrate, lies the rhythm of this catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"In an intimate setting, the twilight of a nation's myth is reinvented by the hands of the master craftsman of generous literature. A captivating dialogue with the fragility of existence, with life and its deaths, and, of course, with the creators of poetry.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174833635580,"sku":"9788501118615","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/22be2f1b102116d5c39ab7d69e2acaeb_b8c3b5f2-b620-44d6-817a-cd9bbe319469.jpg?v=1781236792"},{"product_id":"nunca-houve-tanto-fim-como-agora","title":"There has never been so much end as now","description":"Evandro Affonso offers the reader the opportunity to confront the invisible misery that inhabits the souls and daily lives of our cities. Victims of abandonment, five characters survive on the streets of São Paulo, amid snot and grime, in the open air. In their conversations, screams, coughs, and ramblings, five \"topographical mites\" search for the meaning of life, denouncing the general disdain of passersby. Award-winning writer Evandro Affonso Ferreira achieves, in this novel, a rare balance between literary refinement, linguistic innovation, philosophical reflection, and social critique. Resisting the appeal of standardized narratives, which currently blur into emptiness, Evandro has patiently cultivated his own style over decades. The result is unique: a forceful voice, at once honest and erudite, recognizable by the reader from the first lines, as is the case with the greatest names in Brazilian literature.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175097549052,"sku":"9788501110589","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/d0bb0baa4d1f1dc388af265a62476b5f.jpg?v=1778323882"},{"product_id":"nao-tive-nenhum-prazer-em-conhece-los","title":"I had no pleasure in meeting them","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eNovel by the author who won two Jabutis awards.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Constructed of short poetic fragments and often presented as epigrams or aphorisms, where the lapidary phrase is used as a basic constructive element, \u003cem\u003eI Had No Pleasure in Meeting Them\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel crafted with the meticulous attention of someone who sculpts or practices goldsmithing, a novel about the end of life, the rough stone used here to construct this precise and precious text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In dialogue with the Romanian EM Cioran, who said that it was necessary to destroy in man his propensity for faith, any faith, and his monstrous faculty of being obsessed with a god, Evandro Affonso Ferreira presents, in this mosaic novel, a narrator almost devoid of faith like the one proposed by the Romanian – almost, because for this narrator there is still the consolation of Billie Holiday's music and the invention of phrases.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eEvandro paints a somber picture of the nearness of death. He constructs a stained-glass window formed by fragments of the narrator's existence, which filter the gaze and are pierced by the observations of a powerful character who, even in his personal twilight, cultivates the human need to share—even if it is his own end.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175416578300,"sku":"9788501084170","price":69.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/5e3500bfdb3538e97bc6720d132ede43.jpg?v=1778317777"},{"product_id":"minha-mae-se-matou-sem-dizer-adeus","title":"My mother killed herself without saying goodbye","description":"APCA Award: Best Novel of 2010 Sitting at a table in a shopping mall pastry shop, the narrator, a writer approaching 80, watches life pass by and awaits death, while recalling events from his childhood—such as the suicide of his mother, a failed artist, drunk, and insane, but with whom he maintained a strong bond. The decrepit old man converses telepathically with other mall-goers and justifies his melancholic existence by writing nonstop on a book that may never be published. The first volume of a new trilogy by the author of the acclaimed Grogotó!, Araã!, and Catrâmbias!, MY MOTHER KILLED HERSELF WITHOUT SAYING GOODBYE is a surprising novel, as is the working method of writer Evandro Affonso Ferreira. For almost a year, Evandro spent four hours a day in a pastry shop in a São Paulo shopping mall. He didn't interview anyone, simply observing the behavior of passersby and imagining stories. He arrived at the final text right there, scribbling on several blocks, which he only later typed on the computer.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175422148860,"sku":"9788501090935","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/c81cbdde451fc1d216ed395b6e744c65.jpg?v=1778317152"},{"product_id":"o-mendigo-que-sabia-de-cor-os-adagios-de-erasmo-de-rotterdam","title":"The Beggar Who Knew Erasmus of Rotterdam's Sayings by Heart","description":"WINNER OF THE JABUTI AWARD - NOVEL CATEGORY The obsession with originality of language has always been a hallmark of Evandro Affonso Ferreira, whose writing, which began in 2000 with the acclaimed \"Grogotó,\" has been compared to that of Guimarães Rosa. But now, at 66 and in his sixth book, the writer is more reflective. He has abandoned excessive care with form, but without sacrificing musicality, care with words, or conciseness—a trait he has been pursuing since his previous novel, \"My Mother Killed Herself Without Saying Goodbye,\" winner of the APCA Award for best novel in 2010 and a finalist for the São Paulo Literature and Jabuti awards in 2011. In this beautiful and devastating \"The Beggar Who Knew Erasmus of Rotterdam's Adages by Heart,\" the author once again addresses \"dark\" themes such as loneliness, madness, decrepitude, and death. Behind the long title lies the story of a cultured man, a profound connoisseur of the Dutch philosopher's work, who, after being abandoned by his beloved, lost his mind and became homeless. A \"nihilistic-lyrical\" novel, as the author himself defines it, in which he forgoes the paragraph, presenting it in one breath, skillfully utilizing the stream of consciousness. For ten years, wandering the streets of a metropolis searching for poetic coincidences that will soothe his sadness, pain, and loneliness, a tormented man experiences the painful closeness of the world as he awaits the return of his beloved—the one who left him a note saying, \"IT'S OVER; GOODBYE.\" Her mantra, litany, or refrain, tirelessly repeated, \"SHE WILL COME—I KNOW,\" drives him forward even when there is no clear direction. Unable to name her or even anchor her in some safe harbor in his thoughts, he pencils the letter N, the initial of his beloved's name, into every empty space in the city, and challenges the gods of oblivion by constantly recalling the moments of emotional and intellectual intimacy he shared with her. Carrying with him the Adages of Erasmus of Rotterdam, this erudite beggar knows everything about the life and work of the Dutch humanist—yes, the same one from In Praise of Folly. And he constantly tells his story to an imaginary interlocutor-writer, whom he calls \"sir.\" Both narrator and interlocutor are under an overpass among many other beggar-characters, who, from anonymous and unusual wretches, transform into extraordinary creatures in the imagination of the beggar-poet, like the \"mollusk woman\" and the \"butterfly boy.\"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175422640380,"sku":"9788501096418","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/ae50584d365ea839e6276ed5ee465a98_d3cdf9a5-2fe1-47a3-8add-30a0e5e28685.jpg?v=1778321539"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/evandro-affonso-ferreira.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}