{"product_id":"o-esquizoide-coracao-na-boca","title":"The Schizoid: Heart in the Mouth","description":"Rodrigo de Souza Leão is unafraid to confront (with urgency and courage) his demons. On the contrary, he turns them into allies. Having died prematurely in July 2009, at the age of 43, in a psychiatric clinic, the Rio de Janeiro-born writer, journalist, musician, and painter lived with schizophrenia for over 20 years. This didn't stop him—quite the opposite—from producing intensely, especially in the virtual world, where he published a series of e-books and blogs. The rare lucidity and awareness of his own condition are evident in O esquizoide: Coração na boca (The Schizoid: Heart in the Mouth), a previously unpublished text by Rodrigo, edited by poet and journalist Ramon Mello, curator of his work. Starting with the title—a label the author insists on sticking and peeling from his own face. Written in 2003, the novel is now available in bookstores, fulfilling the author's own request to his friend and poet Silvana Guimarães (who wrote the book's introduction) that it be published only after his death. As is characteristic of all his work—as well as in \"Me roubaram uns dias contados,\" the author's last novel, published last year by Record—\"O esquizoide\" is, at the same time, completely fictional, but with a high dose of autobiography. A mix of diary, novel, story, testimony, fable, combining delirium and lucidity, melancholy and resistance, and solitude. Rodrigo reveals his condition, only to deny it. The author understood that, by embracing the stigmas surrounding his existence, he could deal with his limitations and, even, with the prejudice of the ignorant. Marked by his hospitalizations, the text directly dialogues with \"All the Dogs Are Blue,\" the author's debut novel, a finalist for the Portugal Telecom Award in 2009. Now adapted for the stage, conceived by Ramon Mello (who also stars in the play) and directed by Michel Bercovitch. With the expertise of someone who knew the intricacies of confinement during its limited days, Rodrigo shows in this book that it is reductionist to imprison him in a single word. The poet, who sings of his imprisonment to speak of freedom, warns that it is better to know him \"through his actions than through his schizophrenic singing.\" In a surprisingly simple and light narrative, despite all the weight it carries, Rodrigo offers a conscious—and even political—description of his schizophrenic condition and his role as a writer. He uses words as a weapon to face his own pain and, consequently, reduce the suffering of his peers, with a generosity that motivated him to expose himself completely and unarmed, and fight for the humanization of psychiatric treatment.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159472488700,"sku":"9788501094162","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/550fc744e7f433f316813eb3edb4ad18_a4287dff-e289-4786-b258-867e211c1bd2.jpg?v=1778319489","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/o-esquizoide-coracao-na-boca","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}