{"title":"Rogerio Menezes","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"um-naufrago-que-ri","title":"A castaway who laughs","description":"A man's financial and existential decline from the perspective of his cat. A completely critical feline, a master of acidic comments and harsh assessments. Through the emerald green eyes of the charismatic cat Ravic, who, between naps, spends his life observing everything that happens around him, Rogério Menezes crafts a sarcastic and enthusiastic portrait of the fragile human condition. Nothing human escapes Ravic's sharp tongue. Especially Antônio Martiniano (or, in Raviquian writing, AM), the creator of this superhuman creature, who has four legs and calls himself stoic. A cat who never ate birds, but quotes Henry James and bows to Philip Roth. Ravic is the redemption of his owner, an unemployed journalist in a midlife crisis, a writer who never quite blossomed. A tireless decipherer of spaces, feelings, and subjectivities, just like Ravic the cat. While Antonio Martiniano is torn apart by profound pain, tragic dissonance, and a head-on collision with the horrendous times we live in, his pet cat shrugs and constantly tells himself: okay, this is the worst of all worlds, for crying out loud, but it's what we have. The novel blends the drama present in writers such as Graciliano Ramos, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Balzac, and Henry James (of whom the author is a contrite and devoted reader) with the wild fantasy of Walt Disney cartoons (of which Rogério was a voracious consumer as a child). In A SHIPWRECK THAT LAUGHS, Rogério Menezes navigates, without sinking, between reality and fantasy, between memory and invention.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175416119548,"sku":"9788501083265","price":79.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/e2841033940eae4238814c3350b431b0.jpg?v=1778322007"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/rogerio-menezes.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}