Mastroianni Day

O Dia Mastroianni , by JP Cuenca, now in a new edition by Record, portrays, and at the same time subverts, the clichés of the generation of young people of the 1990s.

In O Dia Mastroianni , by JP Cuenca, the same author of the book of chronicles Qualquer lugar menos agora (Record, 2021), we follow the 24-hour adventure of Pedro Cassavas and Tomás Anselmo, who wander around the city meeting women and drinking, attending parties to which they were not invited and savoring the privileges and anxieties of their existential and social condition.

Cuenca skillfully uses the artifices of metalanguage to create a narrative that questions itself, portraying the clichés of a generation of middle-class youth full of information and artistic pretensions, but incapable of creating anything original, and who fear commonplaces, but are unable to break free from them.

Journalist and writer Paulo Roberto Pires adds, on the blurb of this new edition: "In contemporary fiction, Mastroianni's The Day has a place as undefined as its plot. Far removed from what is still expected of a supposedly profound Brazil, it is also a mockery of the urban and bourgeois literature to which Cuenca himself had linked himself in Corpo Presente , his debut book."

“Light, funny, and absurdly citrusy. One of the best books of the last decade.” – Fabrício Carpinejar, Estadão

“Finally, the romance of non-generation.” – Bolívar Torres, Jornal do Brasil

“Cuenca overcomes the challenge of writing the always complicated second book after a promising debut.” – Adriano Schwartz, Folha de S.Paulo