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From Brazil's most distinguished and important Jewish writer comes this anthology comprised of six collections: in The Carnival of the Animals, Scliar uses political allegory to convey what was normally censored during the height of repression under Brazil's military regime. These tragicomic stories reveal Scliar's interest in issues of oppression, persecution, holocaust, mutability, and the interplay between good and evil. The Ballad of the False Messiah develops the theme of postponement in the sense that for Jews redemption is always postponed in a vain wait for the Messiah. In The Tremulous Earth Scliar explores cruelty and violence in the tenuous lives of his characters, but his experience as a medical doctor informs his compassion for human frailty. Scliar expands his use of fantasy and magical realism in The Dwarf in the Television Set in topics that range from Jewish prophets to marital revenge. The Enigmatic Eye has been described as a masterpiece evoking the enigmas of art and life, and in Van Gogh's Ear, Scliar uses dark and subtle humor in a collection of biblical parables. Here witchcraft, magic, conundrums, and labyrinths are shown to be part of everyday life. A final autobiographical piece ties the collections together in which Scliar discusses his membership in Jewish, medical, gaucho, and Brazilian ""tribes.""These powerful stories, individually humorous, bleak, or haunting, together bring a compelling voice of the Jewish Diaspora to the wide readership it deserves.
282 kr
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The bestselling Brazilian satire, now available in English for the first time.Moacyr Scliar was the preeminent literary voice of the Jewish immigrant experience in modern Brazil. Now his most ambitiously satirical and irreverent novel is at last translated into English, offering not just a significant contribution to Latin American and Jewish literature but to world literature as well.In a past-life therapy session, a mysterious woman makes a remarkable breakthrough when she discovers that in a previous life she was one of King Solomon’s seven hundred wives. In language that hilariously mixes modern jargon and biblical diction, she sets out to tell the story of her earlier incarnation three thousand years in the past, revealing how she went from a provincial nobody to a queen.Yet being royalty isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. As the least desirable of King Solomon’s wives and concubines, she is unceremoniously discarded and forgotten in his harem. But as luck would have it, she possesses a unique gift: she is a woman who knows how to read and write. Once her talent is discovered, King Solomon charges her with writing what will become one of the most important texts in human history. Along the way our nameless narrator leverages her newfound status as royal scribe to bring about her own secret agenda.A brilliant feminist critique skewering the absurdities of patriarchy, The Woman Who Wrote the Bible is a comic masterpiece of truly biblical proportions.
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Eden-Brazil is an ecotourism destination and nature reserve in a stunning swath of beach-lined, coastal rainforest. Inspired by the paradisiacal setting and the idea of providing visitors with the ultimate return to nature, they decide to stage the biblical story of the Garden of Eden, complete with Adam, Eve, the snake, the apple, the works. However, re-creating an earthly paradise as something beyond a roadside attraction is no easy feat. In this charming, tragicomic tale of compromised environmentalism, Moacyr Scliar employs his signature humor and talent for crisp storytelling while weaving together a playfully serious parable of environmentalist ideals that clash with the realities of local politics, global consumer culture, and competing visions of authentic nature.
258 kr
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Den samtida brasilianska novellkonsten är utpräglat urban, och liksom storstaden är den heterogen, bildrik och oförutsägbar. Sedan sextiotalet har mångfalden av stilar ständigt blivit allt större. 1970-talets boom har ofta beskrivits som en storhetstid för novellen i Brasilien, men egentligen har novellen sedan dess aldrig dragit sig tillbaka. Det finns en kontinuitet i viljan till förnyelse, från Clarice Lispector via Silviano Santiago till yngre författare som Adriana Lisboa. Den här antologin tar avstamp med några moderna klassiker från sjuttiotalet, men tonvikten ligger på det nya. De flesta av bokens berättelser har skrivits under de senaste femton åren. Dagens brasilianska novellister visar upp en rad vitt skilda sätt att gestalta den moderna människans situation. Här finns extrem realism, formmässigt experimenterande, erotiska allegorier; här finns omsorgsfullt utmejslade karaktärer sida vid sida med klichéfigurer i masskommunikationens värld. Antologin innehåller följande noveller: João Anzanello Carrascoza: Navelsträngslikt Luiz Ruffato: Yrsel Tatiana Salem Levy: Modlöshet Veronica Stigger: Olivia Tandpetare André Sant’Anna: Mina memoarer Adriana Lisboa: [Mikronoveller] Amilcar Bettega Barbosa: Ärftligt Cíntia Moscovich: Taket och spelmannen Tércia Montenegro: DT Marçal Aquino: Rost Marçal Aquino: Fabel Fernando Bonassi: [Mikronoveller] Rubens Figueiredo: Utan de andra Silviano Santiago: Days of Wine and Roses Moacyr Scliar: Van Goghs öra Márcia Denser: Vampyren på Alameda Casabranca Caio Fernando Abreu : De där båda Clarice Lispector: Ljud av steg Luiz Vilela: Den sista rakningen Lygia Fagundes Telles: Såpbubblans struktur Rubem Fonseca: Den andre