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Hospício é Deus

Maura Lopes Cançado · 2024

Publicado originalmente em 1965, Hospício é Deus mescla memórias de infância com relatos de sucessivas internações em hospitais psiquiátricos. Um depoimento brutal escrito em primeira pessoa por um dos nomes mais instigantes da literatura brasileira do século XX. "Não creio ter sido uma criança normal, embora não despertasse suspeitas. Encaravam-me como a uma menina caprichosa, mas a verdade é que já era uma candidata aos hospícios onde vim parar." É desconcertante a sinceridade com que Maura Lopes Cançado desfia suas lembranças. Sem nunca escorregar no sentimentalismo ou na autopiedade, este volume é um poderoso testemunho sobre a trajetória da autora, que viveu uma infância abastada no interior de Minas Gerais antes de passar por diversas internações em hospitais psiquiátricos em Belo Horizonte e no Rio de Janeiro. Leitora ávida, tida como revelação literária dos anos 1960, a escritora – que por décadas ficou relegada ao ostracismo – nos convida a refletir sobre os limites entre razão e loucura, ficção e memória, realidade e imaginação.

A Vida Mentirosa dos Adultos (Portuguese Edition)

Elena Ferrante · 2020

Em Aguardado Romance Inédito Após O Sucesso Da Tetralogia Napolitana, Autora Narra Os Conflitos Da Adolescência Em Uma Cidade Dividida As Mudanças No Rosto De Giovanna Anunciam O Início Da Adolescência E Não Passam Despercebidas Em Casa. Dois Anos Antes De Abandonar A Família E O Confortável Apartamento No Centro De Nápoles, Andrea Não Se Dá Conta Do Que Sentencia Quando Sussurra Para A Esposa Que A Filha é Muito Feia. Essa Feiura Estética, Mas Que Também Indica Uma Possível Falha De Caráter, Recai Sobre Giovanna Como Uma Herança Indesejável De Vittoria, A Irmã Há Muito Renegada Por Andrea. Aos Doze Anos, A Menina Vê Um Rosto No Espelho E, Embora Não Compreenda A Fundo O Peso Daquela Comparação, Sente Que Algo Está Irremediavelmente à Beira De Um Abismo. O Amor E A Proteção Oferecidos Pelo Lar São As Primeiras Estruturas A Desmoronar Quando Giovanna Decide Conhecer A Mulher Que Pode Encarnar Seu Futuro. Os Encontros Com A Tia São O Ponto De Partida Para O Embate Com Inúmeras Questões Existenciais — é Possível Pertencer A Algum Lugar Em Uma Nápoles De Contrastes Entre O Cinza Industrial E Sua Sociedade Rica E Instruída? Ou Transcender Os Erros E Pecados Cada Vez Mais Aparentes De Pais Outrora Perfeitos? Como Sobreviver Ao Despertar Do Desejo? Ao Longo Dos Anos Acompanhamos Os Percalços Da Transição Da Infância Protegida De Giovanna A Uma Adolescência Exposta às Complexidades Daqueles Que A Cercam, Evocando Também A Possibilidade De Levar A Vida Adulta Como Nenhuma Outra Mulher Fizera Até Então. Um Romance Extraordinário Sobre Transições, Paixões E Descobertas.

Eileen: A Novel

Ottessa Moshfegh · 2016

Now a major motion picture streaming on Hulu, starring Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie<br/><br/>Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize<br/><br/>“Eileen is a remarkable piece of writing, always dark and surprising, sometimes ugly and occasionally hilarious. Its first-person narrator is one of the strangest, most messed-up, most pathetic—and yet, in her own inimitable way, endearing—misfits I’ve encountered in fiction. Trust me, you have never read anything remotely like Eileen.” —Washington Post<br/><br/>So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back.<br/><br/>This is the story of how I disappeared.<br/><br/>The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys’ prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings.<br/><br/>Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen’s story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature. Ottessa Moshfegh is also the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Homesick for Another World: Stories, and McGlue.

My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel

Ottessa Moshfegh · 2019

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible A New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly “Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.

Down the Drain

Julia Fox · 2023

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<br/><br/>The hotly anticipated book from “one of the all-time pop-culture greats” (New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams.<br/><br/>Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut Gems; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow, and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media, where she entertains and educates her millions of followers. But all these share the trait for which she is most famous: unabashedly and unapologetically being herself.<br/><br/>This commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in Down the Drain. With writing that is both eloquent and accessible, Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural supremacy: her parents’ volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs “The Artist”; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son. Yet as extraordinary as her story is, its universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox doesn’t just capture her improbable evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon, she captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience—it’s all here, in raw, remarkable, and riveting detail.<br/><br/>More than a year before the book’s publication, Fox’s description of it as “a masterpiece” in a red carpet interview went viral. As always, she was just being honest. Down the Drain is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind as its author.

O album branco (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Joan Didion · 2019