Novelettes

Boldness is the hallmark of Noveleletas, a collection of short stories that won the 2012/2013 Sesc Literature Prize. In an age of formulas and repetition, Vereza innovates with language and eschews so-called "journalistic literature," transporting us to the Minas Gerais region of Guimarães Rosa, Lúcio Cardoso, and Cornélio Penna. In its stories, Noveleletas brings us not the truth, but the simulation of truth. Fantasy and the expansion of reality are, from the very first line, the contract upon which fiction is built. "An obvious admirer of Guimarães Rosa, Evandro Affonso Ferreira, Ariano Suassuna, and Marcelino Freire, Vereza makes no secret of his formative and bedside readings in this book." – Luís Henrique Pellanda