{"product_id":"vidas-secas-economica-edicao-oficial","title":"Dry Lives (Economic) - Official Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe only edition authorized by the Graciliano Ramos Institute, where part of the royalties go to the NGO Inoccence Brasil. Graciliano Ramos's most important book and one of the greatest classics of Brazilian literature, now in an economical edition. First published in 1938, \u003cem\u003eVidas secas\u003c\/em\u003e portrays the miserable life of a family of migrants on their pilgrimage through the Northeastern backlands. One of the iconic works of Brazilian literary modernism, \u003cem\u003eVidas secas\u003c\/em\u003e is a timely, moving, and cruelly truthful portrait of Brazil.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eGraciliano Ramos was born in 1892 in the interior of Alagoas, and grew up on his father's farm before moving to the state capital and later to Rio de Janeiro, where he began working in the press. In 1937, he was arrested on vague charges of defending communist ideologies. Upon leaving prison, he sought work as a journalist for a Rio de Janeiro newspaper. The editor then allowed him to publish a short text, and Graciliano wrote a short story called \"Baleia\" (Whale), about the suffering and death of a family of rural migrants' dog. The story was a success, and the newspaper commissioned others in the same style. Graciliano then produced a short story for each member of the family: the father, the mother, and the two children. Thus was born \u003cem\u003eVidas secas (Dry Lives\u003c\/em\u003e ), narrated in the third person, with thirteen chapters that, because they lack temporal linearity, can be read out of order, like short stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eOriginally released in 1938, \u003cem\u003eVidas secas\u003c\/em\u003e portrays the miserable life of a family of rural migrants forced to periodically relocate to areas less affected by the drought. The father, Fabiano, walks through the arid landscape of the caatinga in Northeast Brazil with his wife, Sinha Vitória, and their two sons, who are unnamed, referred to only as \"eldest son\" and \"youngest son.\" They are also accompanied by the family dog, Baleia, whose name is ironic, as the lack of food has made her very thin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVidas secas\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to the second modernist phase of Brazilian literature, known as \"regionalist\" or \"1930s romance.\" It strongly denounces the hardships of the Brazilian people, especially the poverty of the Northeastern backlands. It is the novel in which Graciliano achieves the maximum expression he had been seeking in his prose: what drives the characters is the harsh, cruel drought, and paradoxically, the telluric, affective connection it exposes in those beings in retreat, searching for means of survival and a future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159329554684,"sku":"9786555877915","price":29.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/e763ab78a4a260acb15fba3e189464d4_033474c8-eb79-4cce-aab1-9c37f84a1b36.jpg?v=1779851997","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/vidas-secas-economica-edicao-oficial","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}