Losses and gains

Name: Losses and gains
Brand: Totvsrj-record-dc
SKU: 9788501067111
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Autor: Lya Luft

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Sinopse

Lya Luft is a woman of her time, and she bears witness to it in everything she writes, especially in this new book. A mature woman who has experienced both losses and gains, yet remains optimistic, loves life, and calls herself "a creature of her own house"—although not very domestic, she considers her family the center of her life, and life more important than literature. In this first book published by Record, the novelist, columnist, and poet invites the reader to reflect alongside her, to inquire, contemplate, and admire the world. "We are not just victims of fate," she says. "We are also masters of our own lives." In a mix of essay and memoir, Lya revisits several themes from "O rio do meio"—a book published in 1996, winner of the best book award from the São Paulo Association of Art Critics. She considers human beings at once good and capable, futile, mediocre, and even cruel. Embarked on a life that is a gift, a mystery, and a conquest at every moment. Lya believes that "happiness is possible, that there isn't just disagreement and betrayal, but tenderness, friendship, compassion, ethics, and delicacy." This is what she discusses with her readers here. Amidst joys, discoveries, disappointments, and quests, in Losses & Gains—a book unpublished since her childhood memoir, Sea of the Inside, published in 2002—the author seeks to provide a personal account of the experience of growing up. She invites the reader to be her imaginary friend: an accomplice and companion in reflections that range from childhood to loneliness and death, to the value of life and the transcendence of everything. Lya rambles, discusses, and converses, with impetus, compassion, and often good humor, about old age, love, childhood, education, family, freedom, men and women, real people... and concludes that time passes but human emotions do not change, revealing that it is necessary to relearn what it means to be happy. A sensitive, delicate, and disturbing book by one of the most important Brazilian writers of our time, acclaimed by critics and celebrated by readers.

ISBN	978-850-106-711-1
Tradutor
Altura	210 mm
Largura	140 mm
Profundidade	10 mm
Lançamento	17/04/2003
Páginas	160

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Sobre o autor

Lya Luft

Formada em letras anglo-germânicas e com mestrados em Literatura Brasileira e Lingüística Aplicada, Lya Luft é autora de diversas grandes obras, entre elas A asa esquerda do anjo (1981), Reunião de família (1982), Mulher no palco (1984), O quarto fechado (1984), Exílio (1987) entre outras. Trabalha desde os 20 anos como tradutora de alemão e inglês, e já converteu para o português obras de autores consagrados, como Virginia Woolf, Günter Grass, Thomas Mann e Doris Lessing, além de ter recebido o prêmio União Latina de melhor tradução técnica e científica em 2001 pela tradução de Lete: Arte e crítica do esquecimento, de Harald Weinrich. Desde 2004, assinava a coluna Ponto de vista, da revista Veja. Faleceu em dezembro de 2021.