Vacancies news from Melinha Marchiotti

After decades out of print, the saga surrounding the diva Melinha Marchiotti returns in a new edition. First published in the 1980s, this book definitively demonstrates that João Silvério Trevisan is one of our most daring and inventive prose writers.

Written with extraordinary creative freedom, Melinha Marchiotti's "Vagas Notícias" represents an earthquake of inventiveness and transgression, both linguistically and stylistically, as well as structurally and thematically. Bold, controversial, and exuberant, this novel blends romance fiction, poems, real diaries, apocryphal letters, narrative fragments, cinematic memoirs, obscene rumors, among other genres and possible textual subversions. It is a delightful piece of fiction that instigates and blurs the boundaries between real life and fiction, lucidity and debauchery. Originally published in 1984, a period of redemocratization, the height of the HIV epidemic, and intense persecution of dissident sexualities and genders, Melinha Marchiotti's "Vagas Notícias" is, without a doubt, an anarchic narrative that celebrates the freedom to be and to create, with the right to the outrage that comes with being very much alive.

After decades out of print, the saga surrounding the diva Marchiotti now returns to the scene accompanied by a thought-provoking essay by Fábio Figueiredo Camargo, PhD in Portuguese language literature and researcher of homoerotic literature at the Federal University of Uberlândia, who places this Brazilian classic of transgressive sexuality in the same lineage as transgender thinker Paul B. Preciado.

“The literature written by João Silvério Trevisan is, alone, several points above the national average.” - Caio Fernando Abreu

“If a prophet is someone who pokes at the wounds of the present, Trevisan has been performing that role for a long time.” - O Globo

“Opening this book is opening yourself to the pleasure of disobedience, opening yourself to desire, opening yourself to one of the great Brazilian authors, who urgently needs to be read.” - Fábio Figueiredo Camargo