{"title":"Fernando Bonassi","description":"\u003cp\u003eFernando Bonassi nasceu em São Paulo, em 1962. É roteirista de cinema e TV, dramaturgo e escritor de mais de vinte obras, entre elas os romances \u003cem\u003eSubúrbio\u003c\/em\u003e e \u003cem\u003eLuxúria\u003c\/em\u003e (Ed. Record). É corroteirista de filmes como \u003cem\u003eEstação Carandiru\u003c\/em\u003e (de Hector Babenco) e \u003cem\u003eCazuza – O Tempo Não Para\u003c\/em\u003e (de Sandra Werneck e Walter Carvalho). No teatro, destacam-se as montagens de \u003cem\u003eApocalipse 1,11\u003c\/em\u003e (com o Teatro da Vertigem) e de \u003cem\u003eArena Conta Danton\u003c\/em\u003e (com a Cia Livre de Teatro). É coautor dos seriados \u003cem\u003eForça-Tarefa\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eO Caçador\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSupermax\u003c\/em\u003e e \u003cem\u003eCarcereiros\u003c\/em\u003e, produzidos pela Rede Globo de Televisão.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"violencia","title":"Violence","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eViolence\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e, Fernando Bonassi's new novel, is a raw and brutal synthesis of Brazil. With irony and precision, the plot and its characters portray the political and social violence of a nation built on colonial legacies.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIt's Saturday night when a political advisor welcomes a writer and his wife, a university professor, into his home. The advisor's goal in inviting them to dinner is to secure the writer's support for his candidate's campaign. But an armed robbery surprises everyone and will reveal the deepest layers of violence that permeate daily Brazilian life—physical, political, sexual, racial, class-based, and gender-based. With a raw and brutal narrative set over a weekend, \u003cem\u003eViolence\u003c\/em\u003e portrays a Brazil built on slavery, prejudice, and social inequality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe short chapters hiss at the hypocrisies, privileges, and vices of the ruling political class; at police corruption and brutality, as well as their vulnerability; at domestic, political, and prison racism, from its most subtle manifestations to those that kill. Fernando Bonassi, once again, constructs a plot that is extremely critical of current structures of power and control, with a comedic narrative and strong cinematic undertones, and striking characters, highly recognizable to the Brazilian imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Without shying away from the brutalities, complexities, and contradictions of society, the volume concludes a sort of trilogy by the author, also comprising \u003cem\u003eLust\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDegeneration\u003c\/em\u003e . In the words of Tony Bellotto, who wrote the blurb:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \" \u003cem\u003eViolence\u003c\/em\u003e is a mirror that, when we see ourselves reflected in it, shatters. From the sharp shards we will reconstruct some image, and Fernando Bonassi's redemptive cynicism will help us in this inglorious task.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003ePrepare the bandages and settle into the chair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e You'll bleed, but you'll laugh, and you'll certainly wonder why you're enjoying such infamy. Laughter won't drown out the silent belch of terror.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159642718460,"sku":"9786555877199","price":74.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/4b01d52dbb79c2647c806ad5f95f5d90.jpg?v=1778321663"},{"product_id":"luxuria","title":"Lust","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eFrom the screenwriter of \u003cem\u003eEstação Carandiru\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCazuza - O tempo não para\u003c\/em\u003e , \u003cem\u003eLuxúria\u003c\/em\u003e narrates with irony and realism the moment when pride spread throughout the country.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eWhen Fernando Bonassi finished writing \u003cem\u003eLuxúria, the rise of the new C class\u003c\/em\u003e seemed to herald a future of full prosperity in Brazil, and the water supply crisis in the country's metropolises seemed like fiction. Now, however, this contemporary fable, about an ordinary family with ordinary ambitions, but whose choices gradually lead them to an apocalyptic scenario, seems to foreshadow the impasses of a Brazil where progress means consumption.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIntoxicated by easy credit in this \"historic moment of prosperity,\" as government propaganda boasts, the family of a metalworker—who lives in a mortgaged home, with a mortgaged car and appliances—decides to build a swimming pool in their backyard. However, as one of the characters states, \"For a long time now, water has not meant purity: it is the mother of all wars,\" and this seemingly banal decision will expose the shaky foundations on which middle-class normality rests, a tenuous balance between poverty and well-being, between family happiness and tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159757897980,"sku":"9788501104304","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/22a8800d1a5d43dcecb3c87ab3e2ab53.jpg?v=1778323711"},{"product_id":"degeneracao","title":"Degeneration","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWith a dry and harsh narrative, \u003cem\u003eDegeneration\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel about the country's current situation, from the military dictatorship to its repercussions in Bolsonaro's rise to power.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eFernando Bonassi, screenwriter, playwright, and author, is one of the most important contemporary voices we have. His writings—scripts, plays, novels, and short stories—record, from the privileged perspective of someone familiar with the ills of Brazilian society, the various setbacks Brazil has endured. His new novel, \u003cem\u003eDegeneration\u003c\/em\u003e , tells the story of a son who must free his father's body, which has just died and is in the morgue of a public hospital in São Paulo, on the eve of the election that will bring Jair Bolsonaro and the far right to power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e From this backdrop, the narrator-character then finds himself facing an intimate confrontation led by the figure of his father, which leads him to look back on the story of the two, from his childhood, going back to a traumatic episode to which his father subjected him to the discovery that, during the dictatorship, he acted as an informant and assistant to torturers, collaborating with a PM battalion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDegeneration\u003c\/em\u003e is a portrait of Brazilian suburbs, inhabited by a lower-middle class that fights, defends itself, and survives with every weapon at its disposal, plagued by violence and a lack of prospects. 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