Reading List 2013-2021

Abe (Kobo); A Máscara; Livraria Civilização,Porto 1ª Edição,1970

In this graphic novel by the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Wrinkles cartoonist, three adult siblings relive old conflicts as they clear out the family vacation home after their father’s death. The graphic novel The House is at once deeply personal (dedicated to Roca’s own deceased father) and entirely universal. Three adult siblings return to their family’s vacation home a year after their father’s death. They each bring their respective wives, husbands, and children with the intention to clean up the residence and put it on the market. But, as garbage is hauled off and dust is wiped away, decades-old resentments quickly fill the vacant home. Roca asks what happens to brothers and sisters when the only person holding the family together is now gone. Full-color illustrations throughout

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments: marriage into a “proper” family estranges him from his parents; his career is stymied; his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him; a transforming experience of new love ends under threat of scandal. Driven ever deeper within himself, Stoner rediscovers the stoic silence of his forebears and confronts an essential solitude.

Hantá rescues books from the jaws of his compacting press and carries them home. Hrabal, whom Milan Kundera calls “our very best writer today,” celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word. Translated by Michael Henry Heim.

A secret influence on generations of writers, from Guillaume Apollinaire and Jorge Luis Borges to Roberto Bolaño, Marcel Schwob (1867–1905) was as versed in the street slang of medieval thieves as he was in the poetry of Walt Whitman (whom he translated into French). Paul Valéry and Alfred Jarry both dedicated their first books to him, and he was the uncle of Surrealist photographer Claude Cahun.

Editora: Assírio & Alvim Ano: 2000 ISBN: 9789723706109

In this book, the dancer Steve Paxton traces a lifetime in the company of gravity. The memory of his first flight, a meditation on walking, pondering on the conditions of life, and a dream of dancing make up pieces of a puzzle. He reveals the physical force that is affecting each of us and underpins our personal stories. Paxton muses about the limit of his consciousness and celebrates the potentiality of our senses to enter the dance. Gravity is the first book by Steve Paxton, a major international dancer, choreographer and teacher. Throughout his 55-year career, he has researched the fiction of cultured dance and the “truth” of improvisation.

A mutilação sacrificial e a orelha cortada de Van Gogh Georges Bataille Tradução de Carlos Valente 1994 Hiena

Publicado em 1975, constituiu uma revelação e uma revolução, conquistando o estatuto de clássico da literatura brasileira.Para André, um jovem a crescer numa fazenda no Brasil, a vida é “a terra, o trigo, o pão, a mesa, a família.” O jovem ama a terra, teme o pai austero com os seus discursos beatos, e tem asco de si próprio, em virtude de certos sentimentos que começa a desenvolver pela irmã Ana. Dividido entre o afecto desmedido da mãe e a severa autoridade do pai, André tem de escolher entre cumprir o modelo do filho pródigo ou ser a ovelha tresmalhada. Confrontado com a contingência de escolher entre o corpo e a alma, entre o dever filial e a liberdade, a única saída é deixar a casa de família, mas a culpa leva-a consigo. História familiar com ressonâncias bíblicas, em que se entrelaçam o novelesco, o lírico e uma alta carga sensual, "Lavoura Arcaica" é uma obra-chave da literatura de língua Portuguesa.

BONSOIR, MADAME, Obra poética de Manuel de Castro 262 pp. ISBN: 978-989-8638-10-6 Alexandria / Língua Morta 2013

Quem é afinal Terry Morgan? Em nota biográfica a este livro-álbum diz-se que nasceu a 21 de Julho de 1950, na Irlanda, portanto, entre o signo do Caranguejo e do Leão. Foi aluna externa num colégio de freiras na cidade natal, uma experiência taumatizante que viria reforçar o seu comportamento rebelde e independente. A escola pública também não foi melhor e o desenho torna-se um refúgio, onde cria o seu mundo particular. "Dark Moon / Lua Negra" é a história da vida de Terry Morgan em desenhos. Magníficos desenhos, de excelente técnica, que revelam um imaginário fantástico, como era já o dos «teatrinhos (da infância )com os bonecos de pelúcia (representando) peças sobre a escola», onde padres e freiras eram substituídos «por animais e outros seres que falavam línguas antigas». O livro tem oito capítulos e cada um tem um texto que, de algum modo, o ilustra. "Infância - a Escola" (com texto de João Paulo Cotrim), "Infância - Irmãos, amigos, brincadeiras e outras coisas" (texto de Jorge Sousa Braga), "Adolescência e Juventude" (texto de Manuel António Pina), "A Família" (texto de Adília Lopes), "Lugares" (texto de Manuel Hermínio Monteiro), "Nem Sempre Fada" (texto de Regina Guimarães), "Fantasias" (texto de Possidónio Cachapa), "América" (texto de José Agostinho Baptista). Lua Negra (Dark Moon) de Terry Morgan

«A Morte sem Mestre» é o mais recente livro de poesia de Herberto Helder. Escrito em 2013 e integralmente inédito, «Tudo quanto neste livro possa parecer acidental é de facto intencional» - «[...] peço por isso que um qualquer erro de ortografia ou sentido / seja um grão de sal aberto na boca do bom leitor impuro.», escreve-nos o autor. Herberto Helder tem por hábito encadernar os seus livros com papel de embrulho castanho, escrevendo por fora com caneta de feltro vermelha o título e o nome do autor. A sobrecapa da presente edição evoca esse hábito, reproduzindo a sua caligrafia. É ainda incluído um CD, com cinco poemas lidos por Herberto.

If on a winter's night a traveler (Italian: Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore) is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. The postmodernist narrative, in the form of a frame story, is about the reader trying to read a book called If on a winter's night a traveler.

Raymond Carver’s third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. These twelve stories mark a turning point in Carver’s work and “overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life. . . . Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty. . . . his eye set only on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart” (Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World).

Most chapters had been published individually in the newspaper Le Journal between 1894 and 1895. For the collected edition he substituted "Vie de Morphiel, démiurge" with "Matoaka", which had appeared in 1893 in L'Echo de Paris and that he renamed "Pocahontas, princesse".[2] The story "Lilith" about painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti was provably the first one that he wrote in the genre of biographical fiction. It had already been collected in 1891 in the book Coeur double, and perhaps that is the reason it was not included in Imaginary Lives.

“Wolves Evolve follows Ulver through the dark woods of their infancy and into the dead city centres where they would shift between their many shapes to come. It’s a labyrinthine tale of musical evolution on a grand scale. Some may be confused. Others will follow the band through their pantheon of friends and associates, obsessions and affinities. And while there, they will get a glimpse of the shapes and mis-shapes that have made up the alternative cultures of the past three decades, rescued from the iniquity of oblivion.”

Gustave Dore's magnificent engravings for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are among the later works of the great French illustrator. The intensely evocative poem provided Doré with the long-awaited opportunity to convey limitless space on a gigantic scale, and he exploited the poem's fantastic range of atmosphere to the limits of its possibilities. The terrifying space of the open sea, the storms and whirlpools of an unknown ocean, the vast icy caverns of Antarctica, the hot equatorial sea swarming with monsters, all of the amazing visual elements that make Coleridge's masterpiece one of the most exciting and most memorable poems in the English language are unforgettably engraved in Doré's plates. This edition reproduces all of the plates to perfection, in their original size. The illustrations and the text of the poem appear on facing pages, so that the imaginative kinship of Doré and Coleridge is delightfully evident on every page: the illustrations capture all the moods of the poem in their full intensity, bringing the images evoked by the words into clear visual focus. Unabridged and slightly rearranged republication of the 1878 American edition. Text slightly amended to conform to the authoritative 1834 edition of the poem.