Imagine you could create your own utopian writers' quarter—a close-knit community of those you admire or who have influenced you profoundly. For award-winning Portuguese author Gonçalo M. Tavares, six favorite senhores —“Misters” Calvino, Valéry, Juarroz, Kraus, Walser, and Henri—haunt the sidewalks, cafes, and back alleys of a fictive Lisbon bairro.
Readers will appreciate the homages to Italian fabulist Italo Calvino, French poet and critic Paul Valéry, Argentinean poet Roberto Juarroz, Swiss modernist Robert Walser, Austrian writer and satirist Karl Kraus, and Belgian neosurrealist Henri Michaux, but Tavares’s deceptively simple style appeals on many levels. In this imaginative territory, for instance, diminutive Mister Valéry jumps up and down—satisfied to be as tall as his fellow men if “only for a shorter while.” His more egocentric neighbor, Mister Henri, philosophizes about the virtues of absinthe, acknowledging the drink can make equally for a better or worse reality.
Enhancing each story are the drawings of Rachel Caiano, whose minimalist depictions mirror the essence of the personal, logical, and political absurdities that intrigue in these simple yet profound tales.
When we visit Tavares’s neighborhood, its building blocks made of books, we are also visiting a version of ourselves. —Philip Graham, from the foreword

The Neighborhood (The Americas Series)

Literature & Fiction

TAVARES, GONÇALO M.

Literary

Texas Tech University Press

GONÇALO M. TAVARES (Luanda, 1970) has been published in almost fifty countries and has been awarded an impressive amount of national and international literary prizes. Jerusalem received the Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa and the LER / Millenium Prize. Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique was awarded the Best Foreign Book 2010 in France. He also received the Grande Prêmio da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores. In Reading is Walking (The Encyclopedia Series), Tavares reflects, with his already- distinctive style, on the topicsof Science, Fear, Connections, Music and Bloom-Literature. Beside his work as a writer, the author teaches Epistemology at the University of Lisbon.

Reading is Walking: The Encyclopedia Series

Poetry

Quantum Prose

Hailed by Jose Saramago as the best writer of his generation and a likely future winner of the Nobel Prize, Dalkey Archive is proud to introduce Goncalo M. Tavares and his breakthrough novel.

Jerusalem (Portuguese Literature Series)

Contemporary

Dalkey Archive Press

The second installment in Tavares s acclaimed Kingdom series.

Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique: Lenz Buchmann's Position in the World (Portuguese Literature)

"Originally published in Portuguese as Um Homem: Klaus Klump by Editorial Caminho, Lisboa, 2003."

Klaus Klump: A Man (Portuguese Literature)

A Voyage to India is the story of Bloom, our hero, as he makes his way from Lisbon to India in a decidedly non-heroic age. Gone are the galleons, gone is god; so too the swords of the swashbuckler and sacerdotal certainty. In such an era, where is wisdom to be found? Bloom―ever deliberate, ever longwinded―takes his time getting to India, stopping first in London, then Paris and elsewhere in Europe, making friends, encountering enemies, recounting his life story, revealing the reasons for his flight from Lisbon and his vague hopes for and nagging fears about what he might find in India. Or within himself. His is a melancholic itinerary, an attempt to learn and forget. As our narrator flatly declares: “Life proceeds and is monstrous.” Parodying The Lusiads, Luis de Camões’s sixteenth-century Portuguese epic of seafaring exploration and naval prowess, Tavares’s poem is a solemn requiem of sorts, an investigation into the psyche of humankind in a world where the advance of technology outpaces our ability (or desire) to theorize it, the search for wisdom has been abandoned, and old imperialist dreams have revealed themselves to be a postcolonial nightmare.

Voyage to India (Portuguese Literature)

A Girl is Lost in Her Century, Looking For Her Father

Un Voyage en Inde

VIVIANE HAMY

Una niña está perdida en el siglo XX

Seix-Barral

Un suicida desesperado recibe una llamada. Su amante agonizante vaga por la ciudad buscando un lugar donde dormir. Un médico obsesionado con predecir crímenes se refugia en un burdel. Un hombre aterrorizado es tomado por un asesino. Cuatro destinos entrecruzados una madrugada de mayo. Cuatro almas en pena buscando el lugar donde alcanzar su libertad.

Jerusalén (Literatura Mondadori/ Mondadori Literature) (Spanish Edition)

Literatura Random House

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