10 books to learn about contemporary Brazilian literature

Or label contemporary Brazilian literature usually refers to literary productions launched at starting two years 2000, embora some theoretical apontem different initial data, some from the decade of 80 and 90. In any case, it is important to note that there is no common aesthetic, political or ideological project among these literary productions, therefore it is not an organized movement.

1. Plowed cake (2019), by Itamar Vieira Junior

The most consecrated work of the busy Bahian writer Itamar Vieira Junior has received a series of important awards such as Jabuti de Literatura and Prêmio Leya de Livro do Ano.
Not first published romance, Itamar escolheu falar de um Rural brazil, where the workers live in a situation not much different from the time of writing.

Passada no sertão da Bahia, a history accompanies Bibiana, Belonísia and his family of descendants of escravos. Despite the abolition of the escravatura, everyone is immersed in a conservative and preconceived patriarchal rural society.

Enquanto Belonísia has a more conformed profile, and works on the farm on the side of the country with large hesitações, Bibiana was aware of the condition of service to which the one who is submissive. Idealist, Bibiana decides to fight for the land where all the workers work and for the emancipation of two workers.

A produção de Itamar is more voices present in contemporary Brazilian literature that aims to to present to the public more marginalized realities, little known, long of eixo das great cities.

There is a trend in contemporary literature to show these voices sociais novas, previously unauthorized voices (of women, blacks, inhabitants of the periphery, minorities in general).

Before, Brazilian literature was usually produced by consecrated writers, mainly domestic, white, of class media - especially from eixo São Paulo / Rio - that create people also white, come to have space in contemporary literature in order to new places of fala.

The internationalization of Brazilian authors, such as ocorreu com Itamar, is in tune with a major international project of Brazilian literature. This process is late, it happens thanks to the participation of two national editors at literary fairs, years of support programs for translations and years of awards that give international visibility to the productions nationals.

2. To occupation (2019), by Julián Fuks

A previous work by the Brazilian Julián Fuks, To resistance, recebeu or prize José Saramago e To occupation segue os passes gives the work that precedes it, also presenting a strong narrative. Em To occupation The writer goes on a different path and joins his individual experience as a desire to think or complex contemporary Brazil.

O main personage of the story and Sebastián, alter-ego of Julián Fuks, who created a work as autobiographical vestiges. Either way, the result is an experience lived by a writer not Hotel Cambridge, in São Paulo, which was occupied by Movimento Sem Teto in 2012. Julián was an observer of this new life given to the building and that is a two entanglement that feeds the history of living.

At work he also drinks a lot of interactions between the personagem and pai, hospitalized, and the conversations with the companheira about the decision of the house or not.

A occupation and an example of romance between many of contemporary Brazilian literature that jump with the borders between a ficção and a biography, mixing traces of the author's life with internally fictional and literary aspects. This crossroads between personal experience and literature and one of the most striking characteristics of contemporary production.

3. Little anti-racist manual (2019), by Djamila Ribeiro

A young Brazilian activist Djamila Ribeiro is one of the most important contemporary voices in the fight against racism. Na his short work, Djamila invida o leitor, ao long of eleven chapters, for Reflect on or structural racism, rooted in our society.

An author chama to care for a social dynamics that oppresses or blacks, or marginalizes, and seeks the roots historical results for the results that we see in our pages inviting the public to think about importance gives everyday anti-racist practice.

I have received the Jabuti Prize in the Human Sciences category and have found a movement that is more widely present in contemporary Brazilian literature from ouvir or outro, understand or seu fala place, acknowledge his voice and legitimize his speech.

In our literature, I tried more and more to raise new voices and understand complex social do meio where we are inserted.

Also get us to analyze two Fundamental books by Djamila Ribeiro.

4. Or late see (2019), by Luiz Ruffato

Or free Or late see, by Luiz Ruffato, in a certain way, denunciation or state of apathy in which Brazilians are in the last stages. A work portrays o radicalization environment politics, or isolation and a progressive loss of the ability to exchange as another independent of your religion, gender or social class.

Quem tells that story and Oséias, a little common subject, that relegates us to our progressive degradation: why do we stop interacting with others in a peaceful way? When do we begin to develop a blind opinion that prevents us from being outright or from another side? At what moment do we go to oppress those who are different from us?

Oséias is a humble home, a commercial representative of an agricultural products company. After twenty years living in São Paulo, he returned to his city of origin (Cataguases, Minas Gerais) and found a family from which he had been abandoned for women and hair from a large city. It is a past journey that Oséias mergulha na his memory and tries to re-signify his escorts pessoais of him.

A criação de Ruffato portrays a cultural clash between a large city - an urban life - and a rural daily life, governed by other values ​​and by a different time. This movement is frequent in contemporary literature, which aims to present a series of different Brasis: at the same time that it gives to see a regionalist narrative, many times it is also face um urban everyday portrait. This is the fragmentation, the presentation of opposing clashes, which many writers feed on to produce more of their literary creations.

5. Or ridiculous homem (2019), by Marcelo Rubens Paiva

Marcelo Rubens Paiva is an important contemporary Brazilian literature that resolves to bring together a series of stories and chronicles that he created around the genre quest to launch Or ridiculous homem.

Many of these small texts were written at the time and obliged to a rewriting and rewriting of the author, who here intends to raise the Discuss about your parents and gender clichés.

Marcelo Rubens Paiva escolheu to place light in the places of fala of homens and women and understand melhor a dynamica entre os casais, fazendo an affectionate and contemporary portrait on all relationships loving.

I know the world before lived immersive num predominant male discourse, now this space was democratized and As women pass over to a more powerful voice and dessa change than Marcelo Rubens Paiva escolheu falar.

The format of the work, short and fast, is compatible with a contemporary trend to be produced in reduced forms, faster consumption.

Marcelo Rubens Paiva é um bom exemplo da profissionalization of the Brazilian author, a condition that has been growing in Brazilian literature. Or writer, who is also a journalist, roteirista and playwright, lives the writing, unthinkable practice for some decades.

6. Or the world is not going to end (2017), by Tatiana Salem Levy

A colletânea of ​​short essays by Tatiana Salem Levy brings together a series of small narratives that fazem um mix gives Brazilian and international political situation (passing through various politicians such as Crivella and Trump), in addition to having comments on the economy and important social questions such as the growing wave of xenophobia that devastates the world.

The work also contains autobiographical passagens that show how the author enxerga or mundo, na maior parte das vezes falando from um olhar de resistência.

Em comum, all the stories pretend, in some way, help the world in which we live hoje.

We observe the production of Tatiana Salem Levy, an important aspect of contemporary Brazilian literature that is desire to represent realityEven so, you see the seja presented as a fragmentation.

Year oferecerem multiple perspectives From the reading of the contemporary society, the authors two times tried to build knowledge of a possible social landscape to understand the melhor or time in which we live.

7. Cancun (2019), by Miguel del Castillo

Cancun This is the first romance of the Rio writer Miguel del Castillo. We have attended Joel's life course, since he was an adolescent - a period when he felt uncomfortable - going through the sensation of fulfillment found in an evangelical church. A work also fails on the entrance to adult life and as its main escorts taken at 30 and a few years.

A difficult relationship as a country with a family is also themed but not free, which addresses many two moments that made Joel become burned.

A work is a kind of training romance that touches on the questão da religion, da sexualidade e da paternidade. We do not observe so much a formation of men, a complicated adolescence in condominiums dated from Barra da Tijuca até or birth of their first filho.

A work is a journey that fails both gives life to a personage, as well as to a certain middle class in Rio de Janeiro.
To compor or his romance of this star, Miguel del Castillo goes through a series of personal memories and bebeu muito give your biography.

Na leitura of Cancun we observe uma search for a singularity author. A search for a strong digital impression of the artist and also a transversal traction to many authors of contemporary Brazilian literature.

8. About or Brazilian authoritarianism (2019), by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz

The work of the anthropologist Lilia Moritz Schwarcz carrega is an important aspect present in many contemporary Brazilian productions: social arrangement and conhecimento of the functioning of our society.

A long time after this test, a thinker tries to understand the roots of authoritarianism in Brazilian society by taking five secles back. Intrigued how present, USP professor Lilia Moritz Schwarcz asked for answers about how we got to that place.

Gathering a series of statistical data and information of a historical nature, Lilia volta o seu radar on a our political and social origin. Courageously, she also raises reflections related to gender questions, such as, for example, women in public life. will occupy only a few spaces (in 2018 only 15% of the cadeiras were occupied by women, in a country where 51.5% of the population feminina).

9. Agora here no precise if (2015), by Arnaldo Antunes

At this moment, we had not talked about contemporary Brazilian poetry, which has very special contours. A production by Arnaldo Antunes is an excellent example of this type of literary production, which communicates for other words, also as a form.

Contemporary poetry has been quite recognized by use other resources (such as graphics, montagens, collagens). Therefore, it is about a visual poetry, rich in meanings.

It is also frequent in contemporary Brazilian poetry at the presence of metalinguagem, which is a form of linguagem falar on the same. This is the type of poetic production we find, within the poem itself, a comment on it. In a series of poems Arnaldo Antunes uses a metalinguistic resource to think of poetry.

10. Days and days (2002), by Ana Miranda

Ana Miranda is a less well-known romancist within Brazilian literature, rather than producing some very interesting contemporary works.

Dias e Dias é um romance that lies about or love between Feliciana, a mulher sonhadora, and or romantic poet Antônio Gonçalves Dias, who by fact existed, I do not know XIX, I have raised important verses such as Canção do Exílio and I-Juca-Pirama. To work, therefore, history and fiction mix.

No romance is very present or use of intertextuality, a fairly frequent resource in contemporary Brazilian literature. A intertextuality occurs when there is a relationship between a literary text and another, previous, being possible no more recent text to observe traces and influences of that or previous. No case of the romance of Ana Miranda, the intertextuality is given or dialogue with the poetic production of Gonçalves Dias.

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