{"product_id":"aprendiz-de-homero","title":"Homer's Apprentice","description":"\"Sitting in the green armchair, I have the Iliad on my lap. While Gravetinho stuns me with his canine nature, I tune into the Greek's imagination, a source of constant inspiration. Sitting on the founding stones of civilization that the poet stacked to form a wall, I converse with him. Convinced that, wherever he is, he pretends to listen to the Brazilian woman who, believing herself at times to be both peasant and universal, reacts to his furious arguments. He imposes Agamemnon on me when I wanted another in his place. But since Homer has immortality on his side, he is patient. He knows that narrative justice is served and that time dissolves the blind knots of passion. And even when Cassandra, in another Greek tragedy, bids farewell to the coryphaei to meet death, I accept his amendments. After all, I am his apprentice.\" A renowned writer in Brazil and abroad, the first woman to preside over the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Nélida Piñon is releasing her first book since *Vozes do deserto*, winner of the 2005 Jabuti Prize in the Novel and Book of the Year categories. *APRENDIZ DE HOMERO* brings together 24 literary essays written over the past five years. Nélida examines her literary influences: as a reader and a writer. The book serves as a compass for new readers and pays homage to the great universal authors. The book reveals the author's influences and the source of her raw creative material. \"This book reveals not only my reading but also the material from which my imagination as a creator, as a writer, was formed,\" she argues. By reading about the canons Nélida Piñon chose as her own, and the emotional way she relates to them, we can delve deeper into the literature of this author who is undoubtedly one of the greatest contemporary Brazilian writers. According to the writer, it is the writer's role to ensure the immortality of the great masters. \"Literature cannot be simple or mundane. It's meaningless that way. Great texts are modernized by interpretations given over the centuries. Each generation reads a book differently. That's why Homer needs me to talk about him. Homer should constantly be grateful to us for granting him immortality,\" she explains. Nélida Piñon offers us a lesson in literature in HOMER'S APPRENTICE, and gifts readers with a passion and devotion to writing that overflows from the book's pages.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176721170684,"sku":"9788501080486","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/dc78c97f7c249dbdb6be7b833e538fcb.jpg?v=1778326516","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/aprendiz-de-homero","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}