{"title":"João Meirelles Filho","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"o-abridor-de-letras","title":"The letter opener","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2017 Sesc Literature Award in the short story category\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe clarity of language in \u003ci\u003eThe Letter Opener\u003c\/i\u003e is the first thing that catches your eye. Something that, when found in Brazil, is immediately seasoned with some degree of Baroque. Although these stories are not entirely distant from this, whether in style or theme—the exuberance of nature and relationships, for example—it is the mastery of language and the awareness found only in an authentic writer that prevents the excesses so common in tropical paradises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIt's as if we're encountering a narrative style reminiscent of some Brazilian classics, but with a new twist. Inventiveness has many forms, and the author of these tales combines certain traits of an ancient language with a worldview that's not only very personal, but also very contemporary. \"The amounts, and everything always came down to amounts,\" we read in one passage, and the reasoning continues with a comparison of time with \"a small canal.\" All this in a paragraph that begins with the phrase \"They wanted to imprint their labels on me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Who uses the word \"labéus\" today? Certainly an author with full command of his medium, for whom the past, present, and future have special meaning in a narrative defined as a short story, which is also a \"small channel\" that he fills with the finest waters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159700455676,"sku":"9788501111692","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/0dafb0f6033375037c30215febae72fc_eb08abe3-9f0f-4147-8e7b-0eae58d8afca.jpg?v=1778319269"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/joao-meirelles-filho.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}