Dry Lives (70th Anniversary Special) - Official Edition

Name: Dry Lives (70th Anniversary Special) - Official Edition
Brand: Totvsrj-record-dc
SKU: 9788501085290
Price: 149.90 BRL
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Autor: Graciliano Ramos

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The only edition authorized by the Graciliano Ramos Institute, with a portion of the royalties going to the NGO Inoccence Brasil. Graciliano Ramos's most important book and one of the greatest classics of Brazilian literature arrives in bookstores in this special project featuring previously unpublished photographs of the Northeastern backlands. One of the iconic works of Brazilian literary modernism, Vidas secas is a contemporary, moving, and cruelly truthful portrait of Brazil.

This special edition of Vidas secas , celebrating its 70th anniversary, contains, in addition to the full text, photographs produced especially for this project. For ten days, Evandro Teixeira traveled the Northeastern backlands, following the paths of Graciliano Ramos and his characters.

Originally released in 1938, Vidas secas 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.

Vidas secas 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.