Urban Mosaics
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Other Books
THE YELLOW DISTRICT – MAURICIO R B CAMPOS
The Yellow District is a selection of horror tales written by Mauricio R B Campos, laureate writer awarded with several literary prizes, including the HQ Mix Trophy for his work on the Horror Comics "O Rei Amarelo em Quadrinhos" (The King in Yellow Comics), published by Draco.
The author shows facets of horror that will surprise the reader, with a distinctive focus on the themes, redeeming the cosmic horror in the title story or leading the reader to a surprising apocalypse in "The Night Of The Dead Horse".
Open the pages of this book carefully because they are pages full of blood and screams of horror, where the madness and fear go hand in hand.
PRIMUS AD – MAURICIO R B CAMPOS
When mankind searched for other worlds to be explored and started the earth solar system, it didn’t imagine it was seeding its own destruction. With the necessary complexity for the tasks the machines needed to perform, its programing was taken to its limit, and when the telluric forces pressed the machines extremely, a thunderbolt of consciousness was formed in the borders of the system. Primus Ad.
Second short-tale: The Battle of Basamortu When a colony planet is invaded by hostile forces, each one has to fight for their lives and their right to call that planet theirs.
FICTION WORKSHOP: A STUDY – JOÃO ROSA DE CASTRO
I read in Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human that, to be a writer, one has to “let a person make a hundred or more drafts of short stories, none longer than two pages, yet each of a clarity such that each word in it is necessary." [...] At that time, I was in a state of excitement about reading Machado de Assis and Eça de Queiroz, so I decided to distribute these tasks assigned by Nietzsche among the seven days of the week, and, in fact, I produced some texts throughout six years. I even started a novel from one of the outlines within these pages, and, as promised in the opuscule Santa Maria D’Oeste, it may be developed in a thousand different ways, as long as this unpretending study on fiction is read by a thousand interested readers.
ROLLER COASTER DIARIES – JOÃO ROSA DE CASTRO
Finally, the Diary Book, where we find the author’s everyday life, his particularities and reflections that colours the happenings of his daily life.
What to say about this writing that many times seems to be unreal for the reader, but that in João Rosa de Castro’s experience appears to have much meaning?
The reader is not up to decipher the enigmas nor understand them, but enjoy the words of the writer’s intimacy that lead us to seversal situations lived by him and that he wished to share. Like the writing in which he reveals to be the best hour, the best day, the best month and the best year of his life, or when he discusses the matter drugs based on the discussion held by Maria Rita Kehl in the “Philosophical Café”, or even the confession that he doesn’t know how to console when the matter is death, when he knew of the death of the dog of his Januário’s muse.
At last, getting into this book means allowing to open oneself to the perceptions, reflections of its author and enjoy his words.
SAINT MARY FROM THE WEST – JOÃO ROSA DE CASTRO
Even not having a “deceased author”, like in The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, Saint Mary From The West develops, with much talent, the elements of the great novel by Machado de Assis, by placing them in a contemporary living that invites the reader to follow the reflections of a narrator character that addresses many themes, references and situations lived by him. Placed before what he calls a “loom of the soul”, he recalls lectures and lecturers of the Philosophical Café of TV Cultura, Nietzsche, Comte, Coldplay, Oswaldo Montenegro, almost always heading to Saint Mary, who shelters his anxieties. Actually, what the narrator character calls “scribbling” is intended to defy the reader to run the paths of his consciousness.
Exactly for being defying, such paths are not easy, because they are not revealed in a transparent manner. The reader is faced with the “scribbling” of a cultured man, whose eloquence builds a mosaic of themes and thoughts that give shape to his soul in this loom. Little narratives, reflexions on love, homosexuality, Brazilian music, amongst other things, give the reader an impression of persuasion and, at the same time, stimulates him or her to go beyond to explore something latent in the middle of the diversity that he brings.
The high power of persuasion of this narrator character gives the impression of a powerful man, master of himself. However, what his erudition allows us foreseeing along the reading is exactly a fragile man, who has in his eloquence a home, a protection, a resistance. This “exquisite” fragility has to do with the conditions of the contemporary “man of letters”, who, far from occupying a privileged place, sees himself regardless, not only financially, but also culturally. A humanistic look that shocks with the work market, with the prejudices, with the mass culture, and that, as a result of this shock, turns towards the within, from where he allows us forecasting, behind his elo.
POST SCRIPTUM – JOÃO ROSA DE CASTRO
The reflections herein gathered differ from the mental forms of the conventional Brazilian, a meaning in which they exert a pedagogical and therapeutic function: pedagogical because they explicit certain littleness of the Brazilian mental means, exalt values better than the trivial, clarify situation; that is, teach the reader how to interpret a given portion of the world and life with more lucidity. Therapeutic because, as he censures the censurable, he exalts the meritorious, denounces usages; Post Scriptum is virtually capable of inducing its readers to review their values and sub-values, behaviors and sub-behaviors and, therefore, contribute to (if you will pardon the expression) “build a better world”.
O CABALEIRO CINZA
O Cabaleiro Cinza is an e-book in the Galician language. It’s the title short story.
When the visitors got to planet Earth, the hopes of humanity were renewed, but would chaos be the true intention of the aliens?
ANTOLOGIA SOMBRAS E DESEJOS (Anthology Shadows and Desires) – Portuguese Edition
Collection of sensual and gloomy short stories, gathering Brazilian authors with much seduction, mystery and creativity.
So far, only in the international version.
› Paperback: 180 pages
› Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 20, 2014)
› Language: Portuguese
› ISBN-13: 978-1502967220
Credits
At the Margin of the Tigris title designed by the author with image courtesy from Retro Vectors.
Illustration for MM38 by Adriana Vasconcelos
Photo in introduction © Justin Thornton | Dreamstime Stock Photos
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[1] Truco: Truco is a variant of Truc and a popular trick-taking card game originally from Valencia and Balearic Islands (Spain) and played specially in the Southern Cone in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Italy (in Piemonte, in Lomellina, and a particular variant in the towns Porto San Giorgio, Sirolo, Numana, Porto Recanati, Potenza Picena (Marche) and Paulilatino (Sardegna) ), Paraguay, southern Chile and Venezuela. It is played using a Spanish deck, by two, four or six players, divided into two teams.
Except for the variant played in Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, in the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo and many others, Truco is played with a 32-card French deck.
[2] Exocet: The Exocet (French for "flying fish") is a French-built anti-ship missile whose various versions can be launched from surface vessels, submarines, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
[3] The seriemas are the sole living members of the small bird family Cariamidae, which is also the only surviving lineage of
the order Cariamae. Once believed to be related to cranes, they have been placed near the falcons, parrots and passerines, as well as the extinct terror birds. The seriemas are large, long-legged territorial birds that range from 70 to 90 cm. They live in grasslands, savanna, dry woodland and open forests of Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. There are two species of seriemas, the red-legged seriema (Cariama cristata) and the black-legged seriema (Chunga burmeisteri). Names for these birds in the Tupian languages are variously spelled as siriema, sariama, and çariama, and mean "crested" (from Wikipedia).
[4] Folia de Reis: Folia de Reis, Reisado, or Festa de Santos Reis is a festive religious cultural event and classified in Brazil as folklore; practiced by adherents and sympathizers of Catholicism, in order to recall the attitude of the Three Magi - who set out on a journey in search of the hiding place of the Promised Messiah (The Child Jesus Christ) - to pay homage to them and give them gifts. This story is told in the Holy Bible, chapter 2 of the Book of Saint Matthew (or The Gospel According to Matthew). After the birth of Jesus Christ on December 25, the date of the visitation of the Three Magi was adopted as January 6. In some countries of Latin origin, especially those whose culture is of Spanish origin, be the most important Catholic commemorative date, even more important than Christmas itself. In the state of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, the groups celebrate revelations until January 20, the day of Saint Sebastian, the patron saint of the state. In traditional Brazilian culture, Christmas celebrations were celebrated by groups visiting houses, playing joyful songs in praise of the "Holy Kings" and the birth of Christ; these festive manifestations extended until the date consecrated to Three Kings, 6 of January. It is a tradition coming from Spain that gained strength especially in the nineteenth century and is still alive in many regions of the country, especially in the small cities of the states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Espírito Santo, Paraná , Rio de Janeiro, Goiás, among others. In Salvador, a land where religiosity overflows, whether through candomblé or Catholicism, the Festival of Kings, which happens in the neighborhood of Lapinha, could not be missing in the calendar. Initiated by a preparatory triduum, the party has its climax on January 5, when the Ternos de Reis parade comes from various places in the city. Duly armed with costumes and instruments, making representations of the Three Kings and other characters through music, dance and verses, the suits enchant the population that fills Largo da Lapinha and its surroundings. One of the most traditional suits is Rosa Menina, who comes from the neighborhood of Pernambués. Founded in 1945, the Rosa Menina suit is today the oldest in the city, with its Silvano, one of its founders. The main mass, celebrated generally by the archbishop of the city, happens in the Church of the Lapinha, where it is possible to admire a wonderful nativity scene of natural size. Complementing the party could not miss the stalls of food, drinks and games, which give the tone profane (from Wikipedia).
[5] Dom Casmurro: Dom Casmurro is an 1899 novel written by Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. Like The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and Quincas Borba, both by Machado de Assis, it is widely regarded as a masterpiece of realist literature. It is written as a fictional memoir by a distrusting, jealous husband, the narrator, however, is not a reliable conveyor of the story as it is a dark comedy. Dom Casmurro is considered by critic Afranio Coutinho "a true Brazilian masterpiece, and maybe Brazil's greatest representative piece of writing" and "one of the best books ever written in the Portuguese language, if not the best one to date." The author is considered a master of Latin American literature with a unique style of realism (from Wikipedia).