{"title":"Marcelino Freire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarcelino Freire\u003c\/strong\u003e nasceu em 1967, em Sertânia, Pernambuco. Vive em São Paulo desde 1991. Em 2004, idealizou e organizou a antologia Os cem menores contos brasileiros do século (Ateliê Editorial). É autor de \u003cem\u003eAngu de sangue\u003c\/em\u003e (Ateliê Editorial, 2000), \u003cem\u003eContos negreiros\u003c\/em\u003e (Prêmio Jabuti, Editora Record, 2005), \u003cem\u003eRasif\u003c\/em\u003e (Editora Record, 2008), \u003cem\u003eNossos ossos\u003c\/em\u003e (Prêmio Machado de Assis, Editora Record, 2013), entre outros. Seus livros foram adaptados para o teatro e também traduzidos para francês, espanhol e italiano. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"contos-negreiros","title":"Slave tales","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSlave Tales\u003c\/em\u003e presents a modern reinterpretation of prejudice, offering a new perspective on society's marginalized.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eOne of the leading lights of his generation, Marcelino Freire presents 16 narratives of impoverished Brazilians who sell everything to survive: drugs, their bodies, and even their organs. Addressing sensitive topics such as child and indigenous prostitution in \"Yamani,\" racial prejudice and class conflict in \"Solar dos Príncipes,\" and homosexuality in \"Coração,\" the book reaches its climax in \"Nação Zumbi,\" the story of an unnamed character who resorts to organ trafficking to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Inspired by Brazilian classics such as Cruz e Sousa, Lima Barreto and Jorge de Lima, \u003cem\u003eContos negreiros\u003c\/em\u003e examines, with irony and good humor, relevant issues of today and the current political scenario, rescuing Brazil's tarnished cultural memory.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159240950012,"sku":"9788501119742","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/396290d38c71312f60af82159ab538a7_ccbf88b2-cacd-4e7a-9fb6-f7f96065e8a6.jpg?v=1778876226"},{"product_id":"raṣif","title":"Raṣīf","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eOriginally published in 2008, \u003cem\u003eRaṣīf: mar que arrebenta\u003c\/em\u003e , by award-winning writer Marcelino Freire, has a new edition, revised by the author and with a previously unpublished story, and illustrated by the disturbing engravings of Manu Maltez.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Rare writers have such an intimate relationship with words as Marcelino Freire. His stories are composed of delicate mechanisms in which no syllable is out of place. The cadence, rhythm, and sonority of his prose are impeccable, approaching poetry and carrying within it echoes of theater, a fundamental part of the development of the writer born in 1967 in Sertânia, in the interior of Pernambuco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eFrom its title, \u003cem\u003eRaṣīf\u003c\/em\u003e alludes to Recife and two other elements that characterize the stories in this book. One is the nod to the Arab world, which fascinates and contrasts with other powerful cultures. The second is the tension between beauty and strength, serenity and brutality, the sensual and the hostile, the rock and the sea. We read at one point, in the now classic short story \"Da Paz,\" long championed by actress Naruna Costa and recently performed in a show by Emicida: \"Peace is a disgrace. A disgrace.\" Ambiguity is one of the hallmarks of Marcelino's work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eRefusing conformity and clichés, we wander through a myriad of memorable characters, scenes, and plots. Santa Claus, frightened, may not show up. The transvestite marvels at the invitation for coffee. The father laments his artist son—couldn't he like soccer? The suicide bomber sounds charming to a tourist riding a bus. The Queen of the Sea, other orishas, and Christ mingle among characters closer to their deities than to any institutionalized faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eRaṣīf: Mar Que Arrebenta\u003c\/em\u003e , first published in 2008 after Marcelino won the Jabuti Prize for \u003cem\u003eContos Negreiros\u003c\/em\u003e , has received a new edition, revised by the author and featuring a previously unpublished short story, and illustrated with the haunting engravings of Manu Maltez. It is a book that condenses in its brief stories the best virtues of Marcelino Freire, an unavoidable name in Brazilian literature of recent decades.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159275389180,"sku":"9788501923967","price":69.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/8c38ff6cb4eeb9e6ec744eab6423179f.jpg?v=1778874642"},{"product_id":"escalavra","title":"Escalavra","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMarcelino Freire's new novel re-enacts his exuberant and magical poetic prose by telling the story of a father and son in a very Brazilian setting and soil.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eEscalavra\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a father and a son and the sepulchral silence between them. All told (or sung) through an ancient orality, a sonorous wind, not at all aeolian, in which one word \"escalavrando,\" grating, rubbing, hooking one sentence to another, in a kind of megalithic structure like those prehistoric monuments erected, stone upon stone, for the resting place of the dead. A book that, lined up alongside other books on your shelf (or some above and others below), will comprise the most original of our Latin American literature, with its backwoods-Brazilian roots.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159334699260,"sku":"9786585854146","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/48e06a80e3fc7f96f1fe42b82e3d2db1.jpg?v=1779852076"},{"product_id":"amar-e-crime","title":"Love is a crime","description":"FLIP 2015 Highlight Author of impactful short stories and a novel that have transformed him into one of the most celebrated contemporary writers, Marcelino Freire presents, in *Ambro é Crime*, a collection of stories in which love flirts with its opposite: pain, death, and evil. Everything is revealed through explosions and cutting, bloody words, in the best Marcelino Freire style. Marked by the orality and rhythm characteristic of the Pernambuco-born writer, the stories are a sonorous blend of fiction and spontaneity, and have the power to bring marginalized, invisible characters in our society to the center of literature. Originally published in 2011 in a small edition by the artistic collective Edith, of which Marcelino is one of the creators, it now features five new stories, as well as a cover designed by one of the most respected graphic artists in the country, Helio de Almeida.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159474258172,"sku":"9788501105196","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/3295886cec6cef74481a22487d60e541.jpg?v=1778327041"},{"product_id":"nossos-ossos","title":"Our bones","description":"My name is Heleno. I'm a playwright, the protagonist of this long prose, Marcelino Freire's first novel, and I have a dead body of a prostitute to deliver to his father and mother, but I don't know who they are or where they are. All because nothing escapes the theater. Everything comes to the stage and stays there forever. I came to São Paulo because of Carlos, my first love, and to write plays, enchant audiences, \"reveal this world and invent others.\" To cure illnesses, suffer, love, be happy, be normal, be someone else, always someone else, also narrating the melancholy of childhood, the mortal remains of everything that was said in my house and the fossils I found in my backyard. Ah, if it weren't for the audience, the directors, the journalists, the actors, the casting directors, the producers, the other Northeasterners involved in the technique, I wouldn't be able to put on a morgue face—that strong face, that rich face, that vengeful face, and that empty face when I'm playing just for myself. And then comes my love for the boy, Lourenço taking me to be \"buried in my father's heart,\" the affection for Picasso, the hustler's shy sincerity, Estrela's breasts, the doorman, the murder, the banker, the other hustlers, the domino factory, my nine brothers, the police chief, the forensic examiner, the taxi driver in the back and forth of this narrative Freire invented. The São Paulo rascality. The nightlife. The bakeries... Theater for me was the soul's nonsense, it was the afternoon games of childhood, the cross of interpretation, it was the memory of my mother (all the characters I invented are her). In this life, I loved the applause, the travels, the complimentary reviews, the curious sex with successful artists, the street flirting, I loved the hot sex behind the arcades. I loved it all and will continue to love it. Heleno de Gusmão, in a statement dictated to Paulo Lins","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159476748540,"sku":"9788501404916","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/3f59f039fc7663625c6310f2cf194b85_76c09703-0ee0-4d03-97ba-8a7642bad0d9.jpg?v=1778322397"},{"product_id":"bagageiro","title":"Luggage rack","description":"\" \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe luggage rack, in Recife, is where you can carry all kinds of things on your bike: merchandise, gas cylinders, children, etc.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In this \u003cem\u003eBaggageiro\u003c\/em\u003e , we find a collection of short stories, interspersed with commentary—sometimes biting—on writing, the country, the world, and literary and non-literary life. Classified by the author as \"fictional essays,\" the texts collected in this work are part of an atypical genre, blending critiques of reality, touches of witty humor, and poetic prose, all in Marcelino Freire's unique and brilliant style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAccording to the newspaper \u003cem\u003eEstado de S. Paulo\u003c\/em\u003e , in Bagageiro, “the short stories\/essays portray characters often afflicted by social inequality or even helpless in relation to their art [...]. The more loaded short stories are alternated with fictional essays, sharp and amusing reflections on writers and the literary world, and more or less pornographic jokes.” It is a fun and delightful book to read.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159899291900,"sku":"9788503013574","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/380df0c8c9d0b8add0c48f63c3396836_1d38b564-4823-4253-86d9-63806195bec7.jpg?v=1782273581"},{"product_id":"seleta","title":"Select","description":"\" \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSelected\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e- As bad as it may seem,\u003c\/em\u003e it brings together the best short stories by Marcelino Freire - one of the most celebrated Brazilian writers of today - specially selected by the author.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Marcelino Freire is a rugged subject, a writer of passionate lyrics. He became one of the most important names in contemporary Brazilian literature by making his accented voice sound universal. The orality of his work is striking, echoing; more than hearing the written words, the reader is guided by a spoken cadence. There is rhythm in every sentence. The polyphony is so great and so well-conducted that it is as if Marcelino were a writer-maestro.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eWhat we have here is truly mastery. Marcelino is a master. He writes masterfully. It's truly moving to read him. Each of his books. Having Marcelino's short stories gathered in a \u003cem\u003eSelection\u003c\/em\u003e allows us to see, and even hear, the solidity of his magnificent trajectory. It's as if the boy from the Northeast—who, when caught writing, would hear things like, \"Where do you get that from? From your own mind? 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What, for Marcelino Freire, was a meticulous exercise in revisiting, for the reader is a summarized way of accessing great short stories by one of our greatest prose writers.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174818332924,"sku":"9786558470526","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/241e18a42b05eb469ae02da5f38e85b6_072a3955-eb2d-4de5-b13d-ddcc58ce435e.jpg?v=1778875728"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/marcelino-freire.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}