Eden-Brazil

by Moacyr Scliar, Malcolm K. McNee (Translator)

Overview

Adamastor is a freshly divorced, frustrated bureaucrat trying to reinvent his life. Richie is a young, struggling actor. Together with Ernesto, a rakish, expat Argentine showman, they create Eden-Brazil, an ecotourism destination in a stunning swath of coastal rainforest. Inspired to provide visitors with the ultimate return to nature, they decide to stage the biblical story of the Garden of Eden, complete with Adam, Eve, snake, apple, the works. But recreating an earthly paradise as something more than another roadside attraction is no easy feat. In this charming, tragicomic tale, Moacyr Scliar employs his signature humor and talent for crisp storytelling, weaving together a playfully serious parable of environmentalist ideals clashing with the realities of local politics, global consumer culture, and competing visions of authentic nature., reviewing a previous edition or volume

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933227917
Publisher:	Tagus Press
Publication date:	08/22/2019
Series:	Brazilian Literature in Translation Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

MOACYR SCLIAR (1937-2011) was one of Latin America's most important contemporary writers, and his novels and stories were awarded numerous prestigious literary prizes and published in over twenty countries. MALCOLM K. MCNEE is associate professor of Portuguese and Brazilian studies at Smith College.

Table of Contents

1 Introducing My Friend, Adamastor 1

2 Adamastor's Project 5

3 Eden-Brazil Is Born 12

4 Introducing an Ambitious Young Actor: Myself 25

5 Adamastor Makes His Proposal, Decent or Indecent 37

6 I Start to Get into the Spirit of Things 40

7 Eden-Brazil Opens to the World, Though without the Reciprocal Being True 56

8 The End of the Dream? 75

9 Enormous Moon in the Sky-Small Light at the End of the Tunnel 80

10 The Descendant of Peri 85

11 The New Production Begins 91

12 Getting-by Force of Destiny-Real 98

13 An Ending That Might Even Be Considered Happy 103

Translator's Note 109

Editorial Reviews

"Scliar's voice is a fresh one, his artistic roots as firmly fixed in Jewish tradition and mythology as they are in Brazil's literary history."—The Washington Post

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