João Ubaldo Ribeiro Books

In deze grootse en meeslepende familiekroniek, die bijna 400 jaar omspant, legt João Ubaldo Ribeiro de geschiedenis en de ziel van Brazilië en de Brazilianen bloot. Te midden van oorlogen, walvisjacht, macumba, moord, kannibalisme en slavernij voltrekt zich de moeizame strijd om onafhankelijkheid voor Brazilië. Ribeiro beschrijft deze geschiedenis aan de hand van een aantal onvergetelijke karakters in prachtig, kleurrijk en klankvol proza. Een meesterwerk van het kaliber van Honderd jaar eenzaamheid.

Em "Diário do farol", um clérigo amoral e inescrupuloso relata as maldades que perpetrou ao longo da vida. Os maus-tratos que sofreu na infância mudaram profundamente sua forma de ver o ele constatou que não havia motivos para ser bom, e decidiu que seria para sempre mau. Deixando de lado o filtro de qualquer valor moral, o padre lança mão de astúcia, dissimulação, violência e todo tipo de recurso torpe para atingir seu principal objetivo – tornar-se o pior dos seres humanos.Com sua prosa engenhosa, João Ubaldo Ribeiro constrói um protagonista memorável, capaz de dialogar intensamente com o leitor e levá-lo a questionar os limites da moralidade humana.

Belletristik : Brasilien/Sertão ; Mann - Gewalt.

Finalista do Jabuti. Coletânea organizada por Ítalo Moriconi, pautada por critérios como gosto e qualidade, reafirmando o alto nível de nossa produção além de apresentar uma galeria de autores e textos há muito esquecidos ou ainda não descobertos.

Ein Blick von Maria Helena genügt, und Geraldo ist verliebt. Doch wird seine Liebe erwidert? Dies herauszufinden ist viel schwieriger, als Geraldo gedacht hatte. Pandonar der Grausame, der Supermann in Geraldos Phantasie, täte sich da leichter! Doch letztlich meistert auch Geraldo die Probleme der ersten Liebe – die nicht seine letzte bleibt.

Set in 1940s and ’50s provincial Brazil, House of the Fortunate Buddhas is perhaps most startling for it fiery, uninhibited, and highly compelling narrator. By force of her intelligence, courage, and strength of will, she achieves an unlikely liberation of both mind and body, and her sardonic, frank—some have called it pornographic—monologue is an unforgettable work of literary ventriloquism, telling the story of one woman’s journey toward fulfillment.From the book: “I decided to give my testimony orally, instead of writing it down, for several reasons, the major one being arthritis. No, let’s cut that last line out! I don’t have arthritis, and even if I did, I certainly wouldn’t let any get into my book. So, fine: preface. I decided to give my testimony orally instead of in writing mainly because it’s impossible to write about sex, at least in Portuguese, without coming off like a prostitute who’s just been asked to ‘talk dirty’ for the twentieth time in the same day . . ."House of the Fortunate Buddhas has been translated into French (winning the Grinzane Cavour Prize), Italian, and Spanish, and was adapted into a hit one-woman play in Brazil.

Innenansichten eines Außenseiters: Während eines einjährigen Aufenthalts in Berlin 1990/1991 verfaßte Joáo Ubaldo Ribeiro für die Frankfurter Rundschau sehr vergnügliche Kolumnen über das Leben in der nun nicht mehr geteilten Stadt. Er erzählt wunderbar leicht von seinen Eindrücken, Erfahrungen, Beobachtungen und Gedanken, die ein Brasilianer in Berlin und Deutschland zu Hochzeiten der Wende gehabt hat.

Against the backdrop of the Brazilian coast, a disenchanted biologist and various other unusual characters wind up searching together for an explanation for the strange changes in the local flora and fauna. By the author of An Invincible Memory.