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First published in 2001, the letters presented here allow us to glimpse the inner world of these two writers as young men.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The dialogue between her and Sabino was, in addition to being pioneering, one of the most intense since the beginning of her literary career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eNow in a hardcover edition, with a new graphic design by award-winning designer Luciana Facchini, a previously unpublished preface by Nádia Battella Gotlib, facsimiles, and a previously unpublished letter from Clarice to Helena, \u003cem\u003eCartas perto do coração\u003c\/em\u003e returns to the hands of those who love the witty writing of Fernando Sabino and the poetic and introspective writing of Clarice Lispector.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \"It's curious how your book and mine have the same roots. Maybe you don't think or feel that way. I do. But yours ends with a brighter light—the appointed meeting is realized. [...] But, Fernando, isn't the fact that you wrote this book and I wrote mine the beginning of maturity? [...] It gave me the certainty of an appointed meeting, and hope. [...] The truth is, Fernando, that after this book, I'm still more your friend. But the truth is also that if I hadn't liked it so much, I would be too.\" - From Clarice Lispector to Fernando Sabino, January 8, 1957\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\"The literary works of Fernando Sabino and Clarice Lispector—which include the well-written letters collected here—remain available for reading as works of aesthetic importance. But they are also substantial pieces in terms of documentary content, as they point to a historical context. And they are enjoyable to read because of their relaxed tone of conversation about 'almost everything.' 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It then goes back to the beginning of his career: a column, \"The Butterfly Hunter\" (written at age 15) for the Alterosas magazine in Belo Horizonte, about his conversation with a little bird. Shortly thereafter, he published an enthusiastic review of John Steinbeck's novel \"The Grapes of Wrath\" in O Diário, a Catholic-oriented newspaper in Minas Gerais, which distinguished it with the following warning: \"In addition to the brilliant article by our contributor Fernando Tavares Sabino, we must add that reading \"The Lives of Wrath\" should be reserved for adults of established character and forbidden to young ladies in their teens.\" The author of this \"brilliant article\" was 16 years old. Not satisfied, the young Tavares Sabino soon irrefutably denounced to Brazil and the world that the current American bestseller, \"Rebecca\" by Daphne du Maurier, was a plagiarism of the Brazilian novel \"The Successor\" by Carolina Nabuco. Around this time, he repeatedly praised the novels of Octavio de Faria, the idol of his youth. This was followed by an emotional response to Mário de Andrade's letter about his first book, at the age of 18. As a member of the Minas Gerais delegation at the Writers' Congress in São Paulo, he discovered that the writer Edgar Cavalheiro was a gentleman. Already in Rio, he made a more serious discovery: that of Clarice Lispector, with whom he became lifelong friends (after recognizing his literary importance in an article about the novel \"The Chandelier\"). He reminisces about his past and past lives in New York: his adventures and misadventures as an amateur photographer, his antics with Vinícius de Moraes and Jayme Ovalle, painting and embroidering with painters Salvador Dali, Noêmia, and Lazar Segall. He gathers sensational revelations about what Frank Sinatra thought of women (and what so many other men still think). After a thousand adventures, he ends his American stint with the only two poems he ever wrote: \"Synopsis of Time\" and \"The Poet, Drunk, Pees.\" He moves on to a series of chronicles about street and bedroom scenes in Rio. He transcribes some of his thrilling literary recreations of daily police events, published in the Diário Carioca in the series \"O Destino de Cada Um\" (The Destiny of Each One), under the pseudonym \"Pedro Garcia Toledo.\" He gives a thrilling description of his forty-odd-day car trip with Millôr Fernandes across Brazil, from Rio to Porto Alegre. (And how they became \"founders\" of the city of Toledo, in the interior of Paraná). He describes his first trip to several European countries and how he was banned from re-entering Portugal after writing about Salazar's dictatorship. He speaks in detail about his adventures in Cuba, traveling with Jânio Quadros, his dealings with Guevara, and disagreements with Fidel Castro, whose revolver was stolen during a reception at the Brazilian Embassy. His experience of living in London for two years as a journalist and cultural attaché yielded a series of chronicles on Brazil's \"success\" in the 1966 World Cup, for example. On the other hand, he talks about great figures like Laurence Olivier, from whom he obtained a valuable ticket for Carlos Lacerda to see his \"Othello\" (he ended up not going), his meeting with the painter Miró, the Queen's visit to Brazil, the victorious Brazilian tennis queen Maria Ester Bueno, the deaths of Churchill and the poet Dylan Thomas, the Beatles in private—and so on. Back in Brazil, he recounts the shocking experience he experienced as a young man tortured by the police of the dictatorship then reigning among us. From then on, he recounts his meetings with great figures such as Ary Barroso and Chico Buarque, Odete Lara and Márcia Haydée, Erasmo and Roberto Carlos, Nilton Santos and Tostão, Pancetti and Calasans Neto, Maria Bethânia and Maria Lúcia Godoi, Eder Jofre and Bráulio Pedroso, José Américo de Almeida and Tristão de Athayde, Jorge Amado and Dorival Caymmi, Alfredo Machado and Borjalo. He relives encounters with poet Stephen Spender and novelist John dos Passos, and recounts his encounters with Pablo Neruda. His trip to Hollywood with filmmaker David Neves, his dear friend, to make the series of mini-films \"Live Chronicles\" for TV Globo, yielded yet another series of delightful chronicles—such as those on sexual permissiveness in Los Angeles, the madness reigning at Universal Studios, the thrill of being directed by Hitchcock while filming the great director in refuge. He selects precious essays on the great names of world literature, whose works he prefaced in the \"Immortal Novels Collection\" by Editora Rocco, which he edited: Henry James, Flaubert, Pirandello, Cervantes, Stevenson, Chekhov, Andreyev, Melville, Nerval, Hoffman, Musset. All this amid poignant or hilarious anecdotes, captured in street scenes, in domestic accidents, or in everyday life. And he recalls his time with his best friends, such as Vinícius de Moraes, Rubem Bragra, Hélio Pellegrino, Otto Lara Rezende, and Paulo Mendes Campos. The exquisite literary quality shines through both in a moving testimony of his daughter's First Communion and in the example of concision as a rule of style, in one- or two-line anecdotes. The book concludes in the 1990s, with the account of the creation of three literary works, each in its own genre: \"Zélia, a Passion,\" about the life of the former Minister of Economy; \"With the Grace of God,\" a faithful reading of the Gospel according to the mood of Jesus; and \"Amor de Capitu,\" a faithful reading of Machado de Assis's novel without the narrator Don Casmurro. Perhaps some readers may be surprised by certain intimate passages. \"My life is an open book,\" explains Fernando Sabino. And he suggests \"opening the book at random, reading only the loose pages that spark interest; then the reader will claim, like so many others, to have read the entire book.\" Which is what will probably end up happening.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175465074940,"sku":"9788501914309","price":84.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/d52a5b769b59ec6e07c8a5d27751267e.jpg?v=1778324433"},{"product_id":"o-homem-nu","title":"The naked man","description":"The Naked Man is one of Fernando Sabino's best-known works. The title story was also the script for the film of the same name, starring Claudio Marzo and directed by Hugo Carvana. In all, there are forty short stories and chronicles: a police chief dealing with a murder in which there are neither murderers nor murdered; the misfortune of a man reduced to half his true self; another being beaten by a woman; and a parents' meeting attended only by mothers... intelligent and humorous texts, which are this author's hallmark.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175507968252,"sku":"9788501913005","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/66093b76b3576caefaa3a960eafb0a84_8442af10-a8dc-484c-8ff1-4cd46bd16812.jpg?v=1778325311"},{"product_id":"o-galo-musico","title":"THE MUSICIAN ROOSTER","description":"The work brings together literary creations conceived at different stages of the Minas Gerais writer's life, \"from youth to maturity, from desire to love.\" The first, written while still very young, won a national prize in the Permanent Short Story Contest of Carioca magazine, which stated: \"This story is ingenious. It reveals qualities of invention and humor. With trouvailles like this, many people have written stories that are out there, in books and translations. It's worth emphasizing, however, that its author is practically a kid: a 14-year-old boy.\" In the story's introduction, the author confesses that, although elated with the prize, the \"14-year-old boy\" didn't know what trouvailles meant and didn't like the \"kid\" at all. At 18, Sabino won an even greater prize: the admiration of Mário de Andrade, in a letter of praise for his story \"The Companion\"—a little girl's narrative, in her own language, about her friendship with a boy of the same age. The short story \"The Musician Rooster\" was inspired by his father's pet rooster (whose memory he so cherished in *In the End, It Works*). The devilish rooster only tormented the young student, crowing day and night beneath his bedroom window. In the story, the character confesses that he nearly strangled him. His father liked the story, but advised him to travel, to see other places and more interesting people. He followed the advice, traveled the world, but met no one like his father. And he confesses that from then on, he began to \"hear the rooster crow without knowing where.\" This is followed by the novel \"The Other Father,\" about the drama of a young teenager struggling with the passion inspired by the man she considered herself his daughter. Adulthood begins under the sign of desire, in the love of a student for his landlady and in the initiation of a young man by the \"First Blonde,\" with her repertoire of exquisite delights in bed. \"The Faithful Husband\" is the one who ends the night of bohemian life in the arms of his own wife. And \"The Girl from Búzios\" turns out to be a nymphet, whose lust Petrônio himself would never have imagined could be inspired by the boy in his Satyricon. In \"The Face,\" the most nocturnal aspect of the author's experience takes him back to his 18th birthday, faced with the sinister vision of a face through the window. The night is a child—a girl fleeing the lust of men. And after \"The Pharisee\" goes through the hellish experience of marijuana, the night of love in the final novel, as in the poet's verse, is a \"unique night.\"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175718142204,"sku":"9788501913500","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/42ea8a34b5ca9f327af0e4bf5b848512_4a2027f0-0a35-455e-abf3-54622331a226.jpg?v=1778321289"},{"product_id":"o-grande-mentecapto-graphic-novel","title":"The Great Mind (Graphic Novel)","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA great classic of Brazilian literature and winner of the 1980 Jabuti Prize, \u003cem\u003eO grande mentecapto\u003c\/em\u003e , by Fernando Sabino, has been given an unprecedented comic book adaptation by artist Caco Galhardo.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Through the drawings, sensitivity and perception of the renowned Caco Galhardo, \u003cem\u003eO grande mentecapto\u003c\/em\u003e , a classic novel by Fernando Sabino, transports the reader to the state of Minas Gerais and into the life of the clumsy, yet charming, José Geraldo Peres da Nóbrega e Silva, better known as Geraldo Viramundo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAs a child, Viramundo shook the foundations of his hometown, Rio Acima. With his willpower, his faith in himself, and his madness, he made his way to the train, which never stopped. Later, as a young man, he took his beliefs to the Mariana seminary, aspiring to be a priest. There, he got into a huge fight with Dona Pietrolina and her late husband, which led him to Ouro Preto, where he met his lifelong love. From Ouro Preto, he went to Barbacena, where he ended up in a mental hospital. From Barbacena, he went to Juiz de Fora \"to join the glorious army of Caxias and thus fulfill his duty to the country.\" And from Juiz de Fora, he passed through several other cities, following his path, always faithful to his purpose of turning Minas Gerais inside out, with confusion and adventures everywhere he went.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAs Viramundo wanders the state, Brazil is exposed: cowardice, hunger, abuse of power, hypocrisy, disregard for the poor, fights, and conflicts are some of the themes and events present in the story of this great-small Minas Gerais native, and which are also very common in the daily lives of thousands of Brazilians. 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The intersection of Sabino's literature with the lines, colors, and perspective of Caco Galhardo is enchanting.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175718240508,"sku":"9788501920157","price":74.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/8850ff579b143f2eaa87f0ef4c080a7d.jpg?v=1778814795"},{"product_id":"o-encontro-marcado-edicao-especial","title":"The Appointment (Special Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eIn celebration of Fernando Sabino's centenary, this hardcover edition with a new graphic design of \u003cem\u003eO encontro marcado\u003c\/em\u003e includes previously unpublished texts by Michel Laub and Adauto Leva, as well as a letter from Clarice Lispector to the author.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1956, \u003cem\u003eO encontro marcado\u003c\/em\u003e , one of the most important works in the career of Fernando Sabino, winner of the Jabuti and the Machado de Assis Prize, has been given a new deluxe edition to commemorate the centenary of his birth, with previously unpublished texts: an introduction by award-winning writer Michael Laub; a history of the book's reception by Adauto Leva, a scholar of Sabino's work; and the full reproduction of a letter from Clarice Lispector about \u003cem\u003eO encontro marcado\u003c\/em\u003e , written to the author months after the book's release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e The novel, with autobiographical overtones, traces the desperate search for the “self” and the true meaning of life through the eyes of the young writer Eduardo Marciano, who matures in a disoriented world, experiencing inner dramas and exposing the fundamental mistakes that have been frustrating his existence and suffocating his vocation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe \"four miners of the Apocalypse\"—writers Hélio Pellegrino, Paulo Mendes Campos, Otto Lara Resende, and Fernando Sabino—whose friendship marked Brazilian literature and the generation portrayed in \u003cem\u003eThe Encounter Marked\u003c\/em\u003e , inspired some of the book's characters and episodes. It is, therefore, a portrait of the experience of an entire generation, charged with drama and existential questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\"Personally, returning to \u003cem\u003eThe Appointment\u003c\/em\u003e as a 50-year-old writer is to deepen this dialogue that exists in the book and within me. I may feel some tenderness for Eduardo's youthful naiveté—which would support the hypothesis of taste shaped by personal reminiscences—but this only occurs because the book's outcome is never naive. In the worldview that prose emulates at various points, literature transcends time and gives meaning to the existence of its creator. But the protagonist's fate belies this, and the book we hold in our hands belies the denial.\" - Michel Laub\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\"It seems like an old-fashioned quality, that of a book 'captivating.' I think it's an essential, enviable quality. A truly accomplished book is one you don't want to put down. My visual impression of it is of straight, thin lines crisscrossing and cutting each other. The first pause, the very first, comes precisely and only at the end. And it was so beautiful—finally, finally, the great pause. And my visual impression—I know it will seem banal to you—was of light. Amen, Fernando, amen. For all of us. I've never felt so much like I belonged to a 'generation.' For the first time, perhaps, I felt the word generation in another sense. And you see, Fernando, this came from something more, in your book, than from facts and environments, because my life didn't have those facts or those environments. It comes from something more, from something essential that you grasped, and that gave me this impression of 'we're all in the same boat.' 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The friendship continued through these letters, with a frequency only interrupted when the two met in Rio de Janeiro. \"We exchanged ideas about everything,\" says Sabino. \"We submitted our work to each other. We reformulated our values and discovered the world, drunk with youth. It was more than an unspoken passion for literature, or for each other, that united two young people 'close to the wild heart of life': what transpires in our letters is a kind of secret pact between us, united in solidarity with the enigma that the future held for our destiny as writers.\"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176300757244,"sku":"9788501914330","price":69.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/805ac89b374573de88de3a448202ec33_b7179dfd-edc7-418e-9494-56e234feefe1.jpg?v=1778325440"},{"product_id":"cartas-na-mesa-os-tres-parceiros-meus-amigos-para-sempre","title":"CARDS ON THE TABLE: THE THREE PARTNERS, MY FRIENDS FOREVER","description":"To the three partners, my friends forever. My \"arranged meeting\" with my partner Hélio Pellegrino took place in kindergarten, at the age of six. We later became classmates and gymmates. And we remained friends throughout our lives. My first meeting with my partner Otto Lara Resende took place in my teens. Otto would later reveal that he was impressed because I knew car brands, was a swimming champion, and only talked nonsense... I also began our partnership with Paulo Mendes Campos in my teens: it was at a party where we engaged in a literary discussion (in reality, one of us—or both—was interested in impressing a beautiful young woman present). The four of us (or three, to badmouth the absentee) talked nonstop day and night, in Belo Horizonte and later in Rio. Rebellious and nonconformist, irreverence prevailed among us. We were against conventions and conveniences, starting with the literary vocation that united us. We preferred to exercise our creativity by livening up the quiet (uninhabited) streets of Belo Horizonte at that time with our antics. We would end our nights of wandering on a bench in Praça da Liberdade, sometimes until dawn, \"pulling anguish.\" That's what we called that kind of ritual inspired by what Miguel de Unamuno (one of our favorite authors) called the \"tragic feeling of life.\" Which didn't prevent one of us (or all four) from occasionally becoming interested in some female attraction who might wander by during the night. All this and much more is evident in these letters written while traveling. There are no less than 134 of them, sent to my three friends from 1943 to 1992—a span of about 50 years, in other words—a lifetime! As I confess, they are only justified by the sender's (and, by extension, the recipients') insanity. Even with sometimes intemperate language—or perhaps precisely because of it—they convey an impressive (at least to me) glimpse into this fabulous friendship. The book concludes with an extremely indiscreet interview we gave to a magazine, in which we were referred to by the disconcerting epithet \"Four Miners of the Apocalypse.\" Fernando Sabino \"...I wanted to be with you, Hélio, and I'm getting further and further away... Yesterday we were four friends, always together, everything was resolved after a few beers—and in the early morning, on the park bench, things were simple and pure. Just the other day we were kids... If there's any consolation left, Hélio, it's the hope that friendship will endure forever between the four of us.\" (Rio, 8-12-44) Fernando Sabino \"... Well, Otto, there's still nothing definitive about my return to Brazil. Sometimes I feel like never coming back - like in Moraes's verse without being Vinicius: never dreaming again, just being Sabino without being Fernando... Yes, we've grown old. But let it be based on that silent affection on which true friendships are sustained. How good it is to be friends. How we need each other!\" (NY, 2-19-48) Fernando Sabino \"... That night, on the outskirts of Petrópolis, I stopped the car at a little bar on the road to ask for information. And who was there if not you, Paulo, alone at a table in the back? When you saw me, you simply said to the girl with me: \"That guy has never disappointed me.\" I left, taking not only the girl, but the joy of being called \"dude,\" with a brotherly intimacy that illuminated this truth in my mind: you too, dude, have never disappointed me.\" (Rio, 27-2-88) Fernando Sabino \"... Yes, I said I already liked your novel without needing to read it. So what? It would be worse to read it and not like it. What does that matter, in the face of eternity?\" (23-3-44) Hélio Pellegrino \"... I must confess, Fernando, that I envy you for having a friend like me who envies you so much. I hope the feeling is mutual, you envious person.\" (10-10-58) Otto Lara Resende \"... It happens that sometimes, I don't know why, I feel that you believe in me. Even if it's my mistake (or yours), that already makes me happy.\" (20-6-84) Paulo Mendes Campos","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176302166268,"sku":"9788501914354","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/f10b916322e157c68e8688b6840e87c2_bb0367ee-e09c-41d5-af56-27fea2ed08a9.jpg?v=1778325674"},{"product_id":"movimentos-simulados-os","title":"MOVIMENTOS SIMULADOS, OS","description":"Ao remexer nos seus arquivos, Fernando Sabino encontrou originais deste seu ‘novo’ romance em 232 páginas amareladas. Tinham sido por ele datilografadas no remotíssimo ano de 1946, aos 22 anos, quando morava de castigo em Nova York. Na capa, escrito a mão, constava a seguinte advertência: cuidado. 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