The wealth of the world

Name: The wealth of the world
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Autor: Lya Luft

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Sinopse

With a literary career spanning over thirty years and dozens of books published in Brazil and translated in several countries, novelist, poet, columnist, translator, and essayist Lya Luft has established herself as one of Brazil's greatest publishing phenomena. With over 1.2 million copies sold in the country, Lya has won over thousands of readers with her beautiful poetic prose. "The Wealth of the World " marks her return to the genre that definitively established her in 2003, with the astonishing book of essays "Perdas & Ganhes ," a huge success, acclaimed by critics and the public alike.

This work presents a collection of short essays, like chronicles or articles, in which the author addresses the reader in a more direct and conversational manner than in her novels or short stories. This book is at once harsh and poetic, yet always questioning—in the author's style.

In her writings, Lya Luft addresses the human existential drama, our common perplexities, education, family, authority, morality versus moralism, and some of our society's most pressing issues, such as war, poverty, politics, and others. She also discusses how we view, use, or create the world's wealth, whether natural, intellectual, artistic, emotional, or economic. She discusses what we conquer or are granted: the delusions of art, the adventures of science, the plowed fields, the seas and skies we explore. But she also writes about what we waste or kill, about the poverty born of disinterest, the pain born of betrayal, and the conflicting beliefs.

The Wealth of the World is a kind of "book of questions." With criticisms, doubts, moments of cold lucidity, and others of great delicacy, this book confronts us with some of our ghosts, so that, by facing them, they become less frightening.

ISBN	978-850-109-405-6
Tradutor
Altura	210 mm
Largura	136 mm
Profundidade	14 mm
Lançamento	12/04/2011
Páginas	272

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Sobre o autor

Lya Luft

Formada em letras anglo-germânicas e com mestrados em Literatura Brasileira e Lingüística Aplicada, Lya Luft é autora de diversas grandes obras, entre elas A asa esquerda do anjo (1981), Reunião de família (1982), Mulher no palco (1984), O quarto fechado (1984), Exílio (1987) entre outras. Trabalha desde os 20 anos como tradutora de alemão e inglês, e já converteu para o português obras de autores consagrados, como Virginia Woolf, Günter Grass, Thomas Mann e Doris Lessing, além de ter recebido o prêmio União Latina de melhor tradução técnica e científica em 2001 pela tradução de Lete: Arte e crítica do esquecimento, de Harald Weinrich. Desde 2004, assinava a coluna Ponto de vista, da revista Veja. Faleceu em dezembro de 2021.