When is football day?

Name: When is football day?
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Autor: Carlos Drummond de Andrade

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An anthology of short stories, chronicles and poems about the passion for sport shared by the nation and the poet, Quando é dia de futebol returns in a new project, with an afterword by Pelé.

Early in this anthology, Drummond announces the field on which it will be played: "Football is played in the soul." For the poet, who saw every fan as someone threatened with death, the defining sport of Brazilians was intimately linked to the idea of mystery. Magic and illusion were words that suited him well when establishing the intangibility of our love for the ball. But Drummond understood that football expressed, above all, a political emotion. Our victories, he wrote, opened the people's eyes to their "denied capacities for organization, persistence, resilience, associative spirit, and technique." More than that: they allowed our people to discover themselves.

Organized chronologically, following the World Cups our team won or failed to win between 1954 and 1986, the poems, chronicles, and letters collected in this book also analyze the turbulent years that preceded and followed the 1964 coup. Tostão, Zagallo, Gérson, and Rivelino are intertwined with figures from other competitions, such as Médici, Costa e Silva, Geisel, and Figueiredo. The "passionate mythology of the World Cup," Drummond knew, was an attractive ideological lure. Football, after all, "sometimes returns to primitivism, with stops for angry nationalism."

There are also two sections dedicated to the genius of Garrincha and Pelé, a duo the author considered a kind of antithesis to Monteiro Lobato's Jeca Tatu. In the moving afterword he wrote for this work, Pelé makes a point of reciprocating the affection the writer always showed him: "The difficult, the extraordinary, is not writing a thousand texts, like Drummond. It's writing one text like Drummond."

The new editions of Carlos Drummond de Andrade's work feature texts edited by experts, with unprecedented access to the collection of annotated copies and manuscripts he left behind. In " When It's Football Day ," readers will find an afterword by soccer legend Pelé and selected bibliographies by and about Drummond.

Complete bibliographies, a chronology of the poet's life and work, and variations in the process of fixing the texts are available via the QR code located on the back cover of this volume.

ISBN	978-655-587-525-6
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Altura	205 mm
Largura	135 mm
Profundidade	12 mm
Lançamento	31/10/2022
Páginas	230

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Carlos Drummond de Andrade nasceu em Itabira, Minas Gerais, em 1902. Poeta, contista e cronista, foi autor, entre outros, de Alguma poesia, Brejo das almas, Sentimento do mundo, Claro enigma, Fazendeiro do ar e Fala, amendoeira, e é considerado um dos maiores nomes da poesia brasileira do século XX. Faleceu no Rio de Janeiro, em 1987, aos 84 anos.