{"title":"Godofredo de Oliveira Neto","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"menino-oculto","title":"HIDDEN BOY","description":"Aimoré Seixas dos Campos Salles de Mesquita Ávilla was born in 1980 in Coimbra, Portugal. As a child, he came to Brazil and, in Lajes, at his uncle's house, developed a taste for painting. Observant and detail-oriented, he became capable of perfectly reproducing any painting he desired, line by line, tone by tone. After returning to Portugal to study Fine Arts, Aimoré returned to Brazil and established his base in Rio de Janeiro, where he taught literature at a school in Nova Iguaçu. \"HIDDEN BOY,\" by the renowned novelist Godofredo de Oliveira Neto, illustrates the trajectory of this Portuguese professor and master forger.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175380074748,"sku":"9788501072016","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"grito","title":"Scream","description":"New book by Jabuti Prize winner Constructed so that performance and theatricality occupy a central place, Grito is the epilogue of octogenarian Eugênia and her relationship with the young and ambitious Fausto. In 21 acts, the narrative is marked by the clash between the real and the imaginary. Godofredo de Oliveira Neto experiments with formats and problematizes language, conducting, from the perspective of the former theater actress, a plot that moves between the worlds of creation and staging.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175696187644,"sku":"9788501107015","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/d77ce3fcf00ff3beded7f7a23baca2f8.jpg?v=1781841640"},{"product_id":"o-bruxo-do-contestado","title":"The Contestado Wizard","description":"Tecla, a captivating narrator who witnessed World War II in Brazil, the military regime of 1964, and was moved by the Contestado War (1912-1916) through the testimonies of the tormented Gerd Rünnel—a character who himself carries a war within himself—exposes to the reader in a fluid and creative style these three crucial moments in Brazilian history. The crucial Contestado War and its important developments, still little known in Brazil, are described here in a unique and necessary way. It is estimated that twenty thousand people were directly involved in the conflagration, and, taken together, there were approximately fifteen thousand deaths in the Contestado. Half of the Brazilian army was deployed to the region, the entire Republic mobilized, the Supreme Federal Court even considered a habeas corpus petition in favor of the rebels, and Epitácio Pessoa and Rui Barbosa advocated for the warring parties. The Brazilian press warned of a possible reprint of Canudos. Added to this were the border disputes with Argentina in establishing territorial boundaries and the international dispute between ideologies that would characterize the 20th century. Godofredo de Oliveira Neto immerses the reader in these political intricacies, in addition to describing a vast array of European immigration to Brazil. The Contestado wizard has been studied at several institutions in the country, such as the Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras, universities, and high schools. The American magazine The Dirty Goat ranks the author among the three most important writers of the time (in an interview with Silviano Santiago). The Journal of Brazilian Literature, from Brown University\/PUC-RS, and the Jornal de Letras de Lisboa highlight the novel within the contemporary Brazilian literary landscape.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176431960316,"sku":"9788501098832","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/ef8dbad523438833fb89a97479854398_ddd11ab9-3145-446d-9396-d3f3e638224b.jpg?v=1778323526"},{"product_id":"amores-exilados","title":"Exiled loves","description":"Novels set in Brazilian exile during the military dictatorship are rare. The plot of \"Exiled Loves,\" by renowned Santa Catarina novelist Godofredo de Oliveira Neto, fills this gap and shows how those cavernous times in Brazilian history, with clashing political and ideological trends, can explain the country today. As the title suggests, the novel is also a love story, involving a desperate triangle between Santa Catarina native Fábio and Bahia native Lázaro—expatriates in Paris who are members of the political group Aliança Socialista Libertadora—and Frenchwoman Muriel, who is dating the former and previously had an affair with the latter. \"Loving in exile heightens sensitivity,\" explains Godofredo, who, at the same time as the book's action, studied literature in France. Originally published in 1997 under the title \"Pedaço de santo,\" the novel—about to be adapted into a film—received textual tweaks and the insertion of new information that ultimately altered the narrative and the characters' trajectories, resulting in a completely new book, following a conceptual line already used by writers such as Marguerite Duras and Autran Dourado. \"Monet painted Rouen Cathedral 40 times. Some of these paintings seem absolutely identical. But the slight modification of light and color makes each painting different from the other. The same thing happens in literary texts,\" comments the writer. In the 1970s, French political turmoil contrasted with oppression in Brazil, which was becoming distant, impossible. Somehow, however, loss and dispossession find solace in the streets, bars, and other spaces where the young people circulate, crossing paths with other comrades forced by arbitrariness or a lack of prospects to leave their countries. Hailing from regions as different as Lázaro's Bahia and Fábio's Florianópolis, the two Brazilians, forced to leave the country during the leaden years of military rule, share a rootless existence, far from family and friends, with the Frenchwoman Muriel, a kind of self-exile from her past in her own country. While following the characters' plight, the book reviews and discusses the major political events of the time—the Brazilian military dictatorship, the situation in Cuba, the fall of Allende in Chile. As critic Beatriz Resende, who wrote the book's blurb, aptly defines it, \"the youthfulness and sensuality that permeate Godofredo de Oliveira Neto's narrative make the novel not only a testament to an era, but also a narrative of seduction: of the city, of ideas, and, above all, of Muriel Melusina.\" While experiencing an overwhelming passion for the fickle and enigmatic Muriel, Fábio must deal with his own political questions, activism, exile, and even jealousy and restlessness. Until he finds himself compelled to return to Brazil to participate in a terrorist operation alongside his girlfriend's ex-lover, and face his own demons in a desperate reckoning. But \"exile is a path of no return, even when the exile returns,\" as Beatriz Resende argues. \"The condition of exile, of not belonging, and of deprivation leave an indelible mark, sticking to the body and soul. The exile is exiled forever, even if they try to escape this condition. Solidarity has limits; restlessness or paranoia do not. Ghosts of the past, of tortures of various kinds, permeate and make the present impossible.\" This is true for both those exiled from their homeland and from love.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176725889276,"sku":"9788501089076","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/be43b9e6e8ee33ec15a4727ebc196f55.jpg?v=1778323307"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/godofredo-de-oliveira-neto.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}