{"product_id":"o-vicio-do-amor","title":"The addiction to love","description":"After the critical and public success of his debut book, *The Day I Killed My Father*—translated into French, English, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Dutch, and Korean—and his foray into the world of short stories with *The Antinarcissus* (winner of the Clarice Lispector Award from the National Library), Mario Sabino returns to the novel with *The Vice of Love*. A decidedly cosmopolitan narrative that combines high culture with everyday situations. Narrated in the first person and divided into three parts, it is a book about ruins, written among ruins. The physical ones are in Rome, the city where the narrator revisits his romantic past. The main ones are made of memories and populated by women who share the same code of absence, weakness, and betrayal. In the first part, the protagonist, deliberately unnamed, writes an article about the nature of work for a literary magazine. In it, he refutes any sense of morality in this universe, ridiculing Weber and Marx, whose concepts of human dignity through hard work he sees as a way to disguise the existential misery of employers and employees. This fickle antihero forces the reader to question everything he says. In the second part, we discover that the article is rejected, but he continues to write it. The text becomes a novel, almost an autobiography. In it, he reveals how much his mother's hateful behavior influenced him, how he failed to love all the women who passed through his life. He also speaks of his contempt for his career as a journalist, his work as a writer, and his daily life in Rome. Among his reminiscences are his relationship with the psychologist Lorenza and his friendship with Saulo, a charismatic dandy, who decides to make him a character in his debut book, The Addiction of Love. His justification is that he needs a banal plot. To learn more about our hero, Saulo has an affair with Lorenza, who reveals the content of the sessions to him and is prosecuted for unethical behavior. Saulo then seems to disappear. Or is this another trick of this unreliable narrator? In the final section, he dwells on the description of his Roman dolce vita. His encounter with a young Jewish woman, a tango teacher named Renata, with whom he may be truly, for the first time, in love. He writes her a short story that she ignores, quoting Lady Gaga, who believes she understands love more than Shakespeare or Freud. A pro-Palestine activist, Renata leaves the Italian capital to help Hamas. But a surprise puts her back on our hero's path, in a twist worthy of a Roman tragedy.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159301832956,"sku":"9788501095251","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/a4a75be4d8d095e12f906655f484c9d4_3b56683d-ee69-4898-b820-c4a45e073fcb.jpg?v=1778318775","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/o-vicio-do-amor","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}