Vidas Secas (Graphic Novel) - Official Edition

Name: Vidas Secas (Graphic Novel) - Official Edition
Brand: Totvsrj-record-dc
SKU: 9788501104618
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Autor: Graciliano Ramos

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The 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, adapted for comics. First published in 1938, Vidas secas 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, Vidas secas is a timely, moving, and cruelly truthful portrait of Brazil.

Vidas Secas: Graphic Novel combines the work of award-winning comic artist Eloar Guazzelli with the classic text by Graciliano Ramos. Written by Arnaldo Branco—who also adapted other Brazilian literary classics, such as Véu de Noiva and O beijo no asfalto (The Kiss on the Asphalt), by Nelson Rodrigues—the story of a family of rural migrants' journey in search of water, food, and better living conditions gains momentum. Respecting the original text, this graphic novel transforms and gives a new dimension to the novel, solidifying it as the story of a Brazil that, unfortunately, is more than contemporary. Includes a previously unpublished cover by Bruna Beber.

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.