{"title":"Jaime Prado Gouvea","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"fichas-de-vitrola-outros-contos","title":"VCR TOKENS \u0026amp; OTHER STORIES","description":"GRAPHIC RECORD FILES \u0026amp; OTHER STORIES makes Jaime Prado Gouvêa's intentions very clear when he brings together, after 16 years without publishing, the songs, that is, the best stories (18 of the 42 published texts, in addition to three unpublished ones) from his award-winning and meticulous career. \"Then, certain events—the deaths of parents, the need to find a new direction in life, and the feeling that too much is written and too little is read in this country—all combined with a sweet retirement and shameless laziness—made me relax until I discovered, somewhat frightened, that I'd gone from the beginning to the 'complete works' before my time. But now, with the past republished and cleaned up, perhaps it's time to start over. Also weighing in was the need to avoid repeating myself and the fear of worsening (which would do a lot of people good...),\" explains the author, with only four titles released since his debut in 1970. Jaime Prado Gouvêa's metaphor for literature can be seen in one of the book's best texts, called \"You Haven't Seen Anything Yet.\" In the short story, a man spends years building a perfect railroad in his apartment, with twenty-meter-long tracks, calculated curve angles, miniatures of people, cars, and traffic signs. With the entire scenario in hand, this man decides to set this entire world in motion, alternating dizzying speeds with tourist rides, small and large accidents, scares and beauties to be seen from the cabin window while drinking hot chocolate – or listening to music.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159683907836,"sku":"9788501076427","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/c1190117d54edf7acdc2366f84bbdb27.jpg?v=1778323185"},{"product_id":"o-altar-das-montanhas-de-minas","title":"The altar of the mountains of Minas","description":"Nearly twenty years after its first edition, writer Jaime Prado Gouvêa re-releases THE ALTAR OF THE MOUNTAINS OF MINAS. A native of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Jaime Prado Gouvêa drew inspiration from his own journey to write his first novel, set during the military dictatorship, one of the darkest periods in Brazilian history. The bohemian life of Minas Gerais, the repression, and the tense atmosphere of newsrooms are part of the daily life of the character Dirceu Dumont. A man who embodies the tragedy of an entire generation, who were unable to see their dreams come true. Or, in order to survive, he needed to adapt them to more real, more modest ones. Throughout, as an experienced, precise, and confident writer, Jaime plays with what could be ridiculous (Dirceu's encounter with Elisa), melodramatic (the car accident), pornographic (Elisa washing Dirceu's cast), artificial (Cobra demanding Dirceu's apartment), and transforms this material into something that, because of its poignancy and virility, never rings false. \"In the first pages of the novel, my character feels his way into writing a novel and begins with the idea of creating another character who also intends to write a novel. Of course, that character is me,\" the author confesses. Here, Prado Gouvêa narrates Dirceu's encounter with Elisa. A moment that could have been just another beautiful love story, but which turns into tragedy after a car accident. Written in a language, without exaggeration, nothing less than impeccable, with a very solid structure, THE ALTAR OF THE MOUNTS OF MINAS is, as Caio Fernando Abreu says on the blurb of the original edition, “violent as a punch, sharp as a razor blade”.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176722022652,"sku":"9788501082145","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/513eb55d03627093960c1c1b398a5315.jpg?v=1778321392"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/jaime-prado-gouvea.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}