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July 2001Mythologie der Saudade
Zur portugiesischen Melancholie
by Eduardo Lourenço, Hanno Zickgraf, Ulrich Kunzmann
So sehr scheint den Portugiesen das Lebensgefühl der Saudade eigen zu sein, daß es für ihre Definition bislang keine Notwendigkeit gab. Im Gegenteil: Indem sie diese besondere Art glückvoller Melancholie zum Kern ihrer Existenz und damit zu ihrem Geheimnis erklären, stricken sie weiter an einem portugiesischen Mythos. Es ist diese Mystifikation eines universellen Gefühls, die jener Schwermut ohne wahre Tragödie ihre kulturelle Bedeutsamkeit verleiht – sei es in der Literatur Fernando Pessoas oder in den Gesängen des Fado – und aus der Saudade das Kennzeichen portugiesischer Sensibilität macht. Lourenços philosophische und literaturwissenschaftliche Essays suchen nach einer Antwort auf die Frage, warum sich ein ganzes Volk mit Genuß zur Saudade bekennt.
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July 2012Hobalala
Auf der Suche nach João Gilberto
by Marc Fischer
»Girl from Ipanema«, »Chega de Saudade«, »Desafinado« – diese Klassiker der Bossa nova sind täglich in den Cafés, Clubs und Radios dieser Welt zu hören. Sie sind berühmt, weil sie so sind, wie Musik sein sollte: ewig gültig und trotzdem immer wieder neu. Erfunden wurde ihr einzigartiger leiser Klang von einem Mann, dessen Gitarre und Gesang alle kennen, mit dem aber kaum jemand geredet hat, weil er sich seit dreißig Jahren in einem Apartment in Rio de Janeiro versteckt: João Gilberto. In »Hobalala« macht sich Marc Fischer auf die Suche nach der letzten großen Musiklegende unserer Zeit. Er trifft Freunde, Frauen, Weggefährten, um herauszufinden, wie das Herz der Bossa nova im Innersten tickt und was Lohn und Preis der Kunst sind. Eine literarische Detektivgeschichte über den großen, geheimnisvollen Mr. João Gilberto.
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August 2021Involução e outros contos para um mundo em crise
Colectânea de contos traduzidos pelos vencedores do Concurso de Tradução Literária 2020
by Sandra Tamele
Neste terceiro volume da Colectânea de Contos Traduzidos pelos vencedores do Concurso de Tradução Literária, apresentamos seis contos publicados entre 2017 e 2019 no âmbito do Caine Prize for African Writing e da colectânea New Short Fiction from Africa: ‘Involução’ da autoria da sul-africana Stacy Hardy que aborda abertamente a sexualidade da mulher, também preocupações sociais e políticas, faz alusão a questões como a degradação ambiental, o colonialismo e direitos da mulher, ancorados numa teatralidade conceptual necessária para que o conto não se torne efémero e engaje o sentido de humor do leitor para o aproximar da mente aberta de Hardy. ‘A heroína misteriosa’ ou ‘Mavbanelo na mayi’ em Bitonga, é da autoria da Tanzaniana Lydia Kasese. Ela escreve sobre as expectativas e pressões sociais que levam as mulheres a desejarem concertar tudo. Neste conto Kasese traz destramente à luz questões sobre o abuso de menores e o seu impacto sobre as famílias na Tanzânia e, não só. Alinafe Malonje estreou-se nesta colectânea da Short Story Day com o conto ‘Manutenção de Rotina’, um registo metafísico de um hotel: parte alegoria, parte meditação com um subtil comentário sobre o que significa ser mulher no Malawi. Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda cria um fabuloso hotel de fantasia que contém realidades sinistras, construindo um persuasivo mundo alternativo. Tariro Ndoro em ‘A lenda das duas irmãs’, ou ‘Xihitana xa vamakwavu na makwavu’ em Changana, traz uma abordagem arrepiante dos perigos da saudade, onde a busca por uma irmã num hotel de luxo em Victoria Falls tem um fim fantasmagórico. Mampianina Randria nos apresenta em ‘O Gatilho’, ou ‘Niyódeké sê xidúvúlá’ em Changana, um conto com um ritmo cerrado e um desfecho totalmente inesperado onde uma mulher que lida com as frustrações de quem entra na vida adulta.
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January 2019O quintal de Joaquina
by Perazzo, Sergio
O quintal de Joaquina Poemas de Sérgio Perazzo. Em viagem a Portugal, o autor, ao ver os quintais lusitanos em uma viagem de trem, lembra do quintal de sua avó, Joaquina, no Rio de Janeiro. A emoção e a saudade provocam a escrita do poema que nomeia o livro. "Percorrendo este quintal, entre um poema e outro, repeti, de propósito, em versos diferentes, algumas palavras, formas de expressão, metáforas, ditongos, fonemas, exclamações, com novas combinações, rimas, não rimas e sabores, novos significados, como pegadas que pontuassem um pequeno itinerário na terra do quintal de Joaquina. Mapa poético com medo de me perder na trajetória encurvalada do tempo. Luz relativa." (Perazzo). Trecho: “[…] É tudo um quintal só O quintal da avó. O quintal de Joaquina. O quintal de Portugal. Saudade e memória em luar de lua cheia. Todo feito de carinho. Todo feito de história. Reconstruído na teia macia do tempo. Brindado num copo sedento de vinho.” (O quintal de Joaquina) Joaquina's backyard Poems by Sérgio Perazzo. When traveling to Portugal, the author seeing the Portuguese backyards on a train trip, remembers his grandmother Joaquina 's backyard, in Rio de Janeiro. Emotion and longing provoke the writing of the poem that names the book. "Walking through this yard, between one poem and another, I repeated, on purpose, in different verses, some words, forms of expression, metaphors, diphthongs, phonemes, exclamations, with new combinations, rhymes, non-rhymes and flavors, new meanings, as footprints that punctuated a small itinerary in the land of Joaquina's backyard. Poetic map afraid of getting lost in the curved path of time. Relative light. "(Perazzo). Excerpt: “[…] É tudo um quintal só O quintal da avó. O quintal de Joaquina. O quintal de Portugal. Saudade e memória em luar de lua cheia. Todo feito de carinho. Todo feito de história. Reconstruído na teia macia do tempo. Brindado num copo sedento de vinho.” (O quintal de Joaquina)
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Children's & YAOne Day At a Time
by Paulo Galindro / David Machado
Paulo Galindro and David Machado, two of Portugal's most well-known illustrators and authors, got together during the pandemic to start a project called "One Day At a Time". Every day, they posted on Facebook a small text and an illustration, quickly gathering a huge following. They then started a crowdfunding campaign to be able to self-publish the book (they went over the requested amount on the campaign's very first day), a tremendous success with the Portuguese audience.
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Children's & YADecember 2019Imperfect knots
by Mayra S. Mayor
With the suggestive title 'Imperfect knots’, Mayra S. Mayor tells the parallel, but at the same time, crisscrossing stories of Lulu, Nana, kill and Sofia. In Rio de Janeiro youth destined to live deep and intimate experiences, the more independent they become, the more are hostages of their own personal conflicts. Vaporous dialogues, the most sweeping statements, draws attention in this work, the writer's ability to begin, develop and create links between the conflicts in the degree that explores the personalities of the four protagonists, weaving the actions of this with their transformations in the future.
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Fiction2019The weird west of Kane Blackmoon
by Duda Falcão
A bounty hunter travels across the American West in search of adventure. In his travels, he discovers that the desert, the cities of the explorers and the indigenous tribes are full of mysteries, strange events and supernatural entities. On his journey, he makes new friends and acquires mystical knowledge to fight against evil creatures.
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Fiction2019A Jorney to the Abyss
by Nikelen Witter
This is the story of advancing deserts that covered cities. The story of a world on the verge of destruction. It is about the people who inhabited that world, their alienation and the violent war in which they lost themselves. This is the story of a young woman, who healed wounds, and her best friend, who ran a brothel, and how they faced all that was thrown at them. It is also the story of a tiger and a little girl. But, when you get to know all of them, you will have to answer the call to look into the future and plunge into the abyss.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2020AMAZON MOUTH
Society and culture in Dalcidio Jurandir
by Willi Bolle
This book presents an overview of Amazonian history and analyzes the novel Cycle of the Far North, by Dalcidio Jurandir, a work that represents the social inequality and exclusion inherent to Amazonian society. Willi Bolle rescues the work of this important, albeit unknown, author, emphasizing Dalcidio Jurandir’s contribution to our understanding of Amazonian culture. In his work, Jurandir describes the quotidian of those living in the periphery of society, and advocates, quite emphatically, quality education for the poor. He also registers the social dialect of the inhabitants of the Amazon, in a document of the cultural memory of the region.
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The Flight of the Blue Macaw
by Maria José Silveira
A moving coming of age story about a first love and political resistance during the military regime in Brazil, putting up some universal questions about the individual’s role in a dictatorship. André, aged thirteen, is absolutely charmed by Lia, his new neighbour. The young woman recently moved into the house next door together with her husband and her uncle. During their long conversations, the young nurse tells him that it’s her dream to study and become a barefoot doctor. Then one day, André e finds out that Lia an her husband are involved into a clandestine resistance group against the military regime. To save Lia and her comrades from being caught by the military police, André takes a very high risk. When the police comes during the night to hunt the neighbours’ house, they have already gone . . . The narration is completed by the comic strips André had drawn in his teenage days and an authentic political pamphlet that plays a crucial role in the story. By choosing a teenager’s perspective, Maria José Silveira poses some very important questions about dictatorship in general and makes them accessible for young people.
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Haunted Tales
by Edson Gabriel Garcia
Stories that make your spine tingle! Jorginho’s girlfriend has disappeared for a week when he suddenly gets an invitation to meet her at the cemetery. A mannequin with eyes that appear to be alive strangely gains power over her creator. A young man is overwhelmed by the desire to own the most beautiful leather jacket he has ever seen – and will bitterly regret it . . . Edson Gabriel Garcia’s stories carry his readers away and leave them behind with goosebumps and a strange sensation.
