Elvira Vigna

"Kafka é assim mesmo, completamente kafkiano, você sabe. Não vou nem explicar." É dessa forma que Elvira Vigna, ao recontar a célebre história Um médico do interior, justifica a aparição dos cavalos do médico em um chiqueiro. E é nessa voz direta, cômica e cortante que ela vai passear por vinte contos de Franz Kafka, entre eles clássicos como O urubu e Visitantes na mina. Recontadas por Elvira, as histórias de Kafka ganham uma dicção nova, uma agilidade e uma graça que servem de ponte improvável entre a República Tcheca e o Brasil. Uma das grandes escritoras brasileiras contemporâneas, Elvira deixa nesse Kafkianas um irresistível presente a seus leitores de todas as idades.

Kafkianas

Luiz Ruffato

Nei Lopes

Patricia Melo

Cesar Cardoso

Joao Gilberto Noll

Domingos Pellegrini

Sergio Sant'Anna

Marcelo Moutinho

Joao Ximenes Braga

Katie Slade

It’s the city the rest of the world descends on to party…. whether for the spectacular annual Carnival, the sun-kissed beaches, the World Cup, or, in 2016, the Olympics. It’s also a place that’s sadly become synonymous with some of the excesses of partying, the dark underbelly that accompanies any urban hedonist’s destination. But these are just two images of Rio. There are countless others: opulent seat of two former empires; stronghold of brutal, twentieth-century dictatorships; sprawling metropolis stretched between stunning mountain tops and equally stunningeconomic extremes – from the affluence of neighbourhoods like Leblon and Ipanema, to the overcrowded slums in the foothills, the favelas. This anthology brings together ten short stories that go beyond the postcards and snapshots, and introduce us to real residents of Rio – the cariocas: young hopefuls training to be the next stars of samba, exhausted labourers press-ganged into meeting an impossible construction deadline (the nation’s pride being at stake), bored call-girls, nostalgic drag queens, married couples having petty middle-class domestics…. These are characters who’ve developed a deep understanding of Rio’s contradictions, a way of living with the grey areas – between the grime and the glitz – that make Rio the ‘marvellous city’ it is.

A City in Short Fiction

The Book of Rio

Elvira Vigna

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