High Art

Literature & Fiction

FONSECA, RUBEM

Contemporary

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Lost Manuscript

What better place to hide a collection of priceless jewels than among the glitter and ostrich feathers of Rio's Carnival parade? The film-director narrator suddenly finds himself the custodian of such a valuable horde after the nocturnal visit of a young dancer who is soon found murdered.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

A grieving film director in Rio is visited by a carnival dancer who leaves him with a box full of precious gems. A few days later the dancer is dead, a man in a raincoat lurks outside the director's door, and a mysterious German producer surfaces with an irresistible offer: to make a film based on a story by the director's favorite author, the great Russian writer Isaac Babel. From this elemental framework the adventure begins.Dodging a horde of local smugglers, the director soon finds himself fleeing to Berlin, where a web of literary and political skulduggery awaits him. Rumor has it that an unpublished Babel manuscript has survived the Stalinist purges and is now being shopped by a lovesick Soviet bureaucrat. Forsaking caution, money, and at times his own sanity, the director makes a foray into East Berlin in pursuit of the one true thing that still stirs his heart.Already a bestseller in Italy, Mexico, and his native Brazil, Rubem Fonseca's newest novel is a rollicking adventure intothe high camp world of carnival, the intricate history of precious gems, and the subtle craft of filmmaking. It is also a piercing account of a man whose life is resurrected by art just when tragedy threatens to paralyze him.

Vast Emotions and Imperfect Thoughts

Landers, Clifford E.

Ecco Pr

Set in Rio, this novel looks at the underbelly of Brazilian urban society in which a lawyer, working on the murder case of two prostitutes, finds the case widening as details of sadism, cocaine smuggling, and multiple murders come to light

Carroll & Graf Pub.

In these seventeen stories by one of Brazil's foremost living authors, Fonseca introduces readers―with unsurpassed candor and keenness of observation―to a kaleidoscopic, often disturbing world. A hunchback sets his lascivious sights on seducing a beautiful woman. A wealthy businessman hires a ghost writer, with unexpected results. A family of modern-day urban cannibals celebrates a bizarre rite of passage. A man roams the nocturnal streets of Rio de Janeiro in search of meaning. A male ex-police reporter writes an advice column under a female pseudonym. A prosperous entrepreneur picks up a beautiful girl in his Mercedes only to discover his costly mistake. A loser elaborates a lethal plan to become, in his mind, a winner.

Winning the Game and Other Stories (Volume 1) (Brazilian Literature in Translation Series)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Tagus Press

Rubem Fonseca's Crimes of August offers the first serious literary treatment of the cataclysmic events of August 1954, arguably the most turbulent month in Brazilian history. A rich novel, both culturally and historically, Crimes of August tells two stories simultaneously. The first is private, involving the well-delineated character of Alberto Mattos, a police officer. The other is public, focusing on events that begin with the attempted assassination of Carlos Lacerda, a demagogic journalist and political enemy of President Getúlio Vargas, and culminate in Vargas's suicide on August 24,1954. Throughout this suspenseful novel, deceptively couched as a thriller, Fonseca interweaves fact and fiction in a complex, provocative plot. At the same time, he re-creates the atmosphere of the 1950s, when Rio de Janeiro was Brazil's capital and the nexus of political intrigue and corruption.Mattos is assigned to solve the brutal murder of a wealthy entrepreneur in the aftermath of what appears to be a homosexual liaison. An educated and introspective man, and one of the few in his precinct not on the take from the bankers" of the illegal lottery, Mattos suffers from alienation and a bleeding ulcer. His investigation puts him on a dangerous collision course with the conspiracy to depose Vargas, the novel's other narrative thread. The two overlap at several points, coming to their tragic end with the aged politician's suicide and Mattos's downfall.

Crimes of August: A Novel (Brazilian Literature in Translation Series)

The Taker and Other Stories

"Each of Fonseca's books is not only a worthwhile journey; it is also, in some way, a necessary one."—Thomas Pynchon
Most widely admired for his short fiction, The Taker and Other Stories is Fonseca's first collection to appear in English translation, and it ranges across his oeuvre, exploring the sights and sounds of the modern landscape of Rio de Janeiro. Rubem Fonseca's Rio is a city at war, a city whose vast disparities—in wealth, social standing, and prestige—are untenable. In the stories of The Taker, rich and poor live in an uneasy equilibrium, where only overwhelming force can maintain order, and violence and deception are essential tools of survival.
Whether recounting the story of a businessman who runs over pedestrians to let off steam, a serial killer being pushed to ever greater crimes by his bourgeois lover, the desperate poor rushing to butcher a cow that has been killed in a traffic accident, or a man seeking out confirmation for a past which his friends deny, Fonseca repeatedly reaffirms his status as one of the purest storytellers on the contemporary Brazilian literary scene.Rubem Fonseca is considered one of Brazil's most influential writers, and was awarded the Prémio Camões—considered the Nobel Prize of Portuguese language literature—for his body of work in 2003. That same year he was awarded the Juan Rulfo Prize.Clifford E. Landers has translated many of the great writers of Brazil, including Jorge Amado, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Patricia Melo, Osman Lins, and Moacyr Scliar among others. He received the Mario Ferreira Award in 1999.

Open Letter

<div> "Each of Fonseca's books is not only a worthwhile journey; it is also, in some way, a necessary one."--Thomas Pynchon Most widely admired for his short fiction, The Taker and Other Stories is Fonseca's first collection to appear in English translation, and it ranges across his oeuvre, exploring the sights and sounds of the modern landscape of Rio de Janeiro. Rubem Fonseca's Rio is a city at war, a city whose vast disparities--in wealth, social standing, and prestige--are untenable. In the stories of The Taker, rich and poor live in an uneasy equilibrium, where only overwhelming force can maintain order, and violence and deception are essential tools of survival. Whether recounting the story of a businessman who runs over pedestrians to let off steam, a serial killer being pushed to ever greater crimes by his bourgeois lover, the desperate poor rushing to butcher a cow that has been killed in a traffic accident, or a man seeking out confirmation for a past which his friends deny, Fonseca repeatedly reaffirms his status as one of the purest storytellers on the contemporary Brazilian literary scene. Rubem Fonseca is considered one of Brazil's most influential writers, and was awarded the Prémio Camões--considered the Nobel Prize of Portuguese language literature--for his body of work in 2003. That same year he was awarded the Juan Rulfo Prize. Clifford E. Landers has translated many of the great writers of Brazil, including Jorge Amado, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Patricia Melo, Osman Lins, and Moacyr Scliar among others. He received the Mario Ferreira Award in 1999. </div>

Literary

Bufo und Spallanzani.

Unionsverlag

Rubem Fonseca es referente obligado de la literatura latinoamericana de los últimos cincuenta años. Cuentista consumado, transgresor e impredecible, se le considera como uno de los máximos exponentes de este género, dentro y fuera de Brasil.&nbsp; Cuentos completos es la primera recopilación de todos los relatos breves de Fonseca publicada en español. En este volumen se incluyen sus primeros cinco libros (1963 a 1979): Los prisioneros, Lúcia McCartney -estos dos nunca antes editados en México--, El collar del perro, Feliz año nuevo y El cobrador, donde aparece el relato del mismo nombre, acaso su cuento más famoso. «Lo mejor de la obra de Rubem Fonseca es no saber adónde nos va a llevar. Siempre que comienzo un libro suyo es como si sonara el teléfono a medianoche: "Hola, soy yo. No vas a creer lo que está sucediendo"». Thomas Pynchon. Del maestro brasileño de la novela policiaca.

Cuentos completos 1 (Spanish Edition)

Planeta Publishing

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High Art

The Lost Manuscript

Vast Emotions and Imperfect Thoughts

High Art

Winning the Game and Other Stories (Volume 1) (Brazilian Literature in Translation Series)

Crimes of August: A Novel (Brazilian Literature in Translation Series)

The Taker and Other Stories

The Taker and Other Stories

Bufo und Spallanzani.

Cuentos completos 1 (Spanish Edition)