João Gilberto Noll

A road novel that follows a solitary man as he sets off on a journey to the south of Brazil. The strange characters and absurd situations he encounters along the way present an extraordinary portrait of human relations.

Atlantic Hotel

O homem sente todo o peso do tédio da cidade vazia no verão, em meio aos seus encontros e desencontros amorosos.

A céu aberto

"A narrator's journey to discover his true self and the outermost reaches of sexual and artistic expression"--

Hugs and Cuddles

Caio Fernando Abreu

Angélica Freitas

Carol Bensimon

Ana Cristina Cesar

Wilson Bueno

Cidinha da Silva

Carla Diacov

Ricardo Domeneck

Cristina Judar

Raimundo Neto

Tatiana Nascimento

Marcio Junqueira

For the first time ever, and amidst the backdrop of Bolsonaro's emboldened far-right regime, Brazil's legendary and pioneering queer writers appear together in English translation. This far-reaching, bilingual assortment of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and photography--erotic and personal, revolutionary, hopeful, joyous, and bitter--fiercely upholds the ongoing legacy of queer expression in Brazil and anticipates, even demands, its prolific, if tenuous, future. In fresh and poetic prose, Raimundo Neto brings us lesser-known narratives of queer life in rural Brazil, including the story of a boy determined to become the "harvest bride" at a the local annual harvest festival. Poet Angélica Freitas details a disturbingly familiar world in which women are divided into rigid binaries--clean or dirty, good or bad--with stark language that builds into utter absurdity. And Caio Fernando Abreu sits in a hospital dying of AIDS, meeting with angels and writing letters in which he repeats "all I can do is write" like a mantra. Spanning four decades, and featuring a total of thirteen writers, Cuíer: Queer Brazil is a revelation in anything-but-plain sight.

Cuíer

"Story revolves around two boys in search of a father who is fighting in an undefined war in an undisclosed location. Vagueness replaces precision; imagery takes the place of analysis; and a chaotic tension between past and present preclude a future definition of the characters, who range from perverted old military men to masturbating couples to the narrator who appears to be in search of a sense of order in the midst of chaos"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Com contos inéditos e o fragmento de um romance inacabado, os textos de Educação natural tratam de temas caros ao autor, como o aspecto trágico da existência, as possibilidades de transfiguração do corpo e as questõs de gênero. Educação natural, de João Gilberto Noll, é composto por textos inéditos do autor, falecido em 2017, encontrados em um arquivo de computador: 26 contos e o fragmento de um romance inacabado. Os textos trazem situações bem caras à literatura de Noll, como o aspecto trágico da vida e as possibilidades de transfiguração do corpo, retratando de maneira poética personagens que estão sempre à deriva, desgarrados, esquecidos ou ansiosos por esquecer. Em uma das narrativas, um homem entra na casa de uma mulher no meio da noite para reaver a memória de um amigo desaparecido; em outra, um homem atormentado agoniza no chão sujo de um banheiro público, enquanto rememora sua glória indesejada. Nestes textos póstumos, organizados por Edson Migracielo, tudo parece estar por um triz, entre o delírio e o prazer, entre a vida e a extinção. Sobre a obra de Noll, Migracielo questiona: "não serão, precisamente, aquelas disposições — bizarras, vitais e insubmissas — as que devêm revolucionárias, as que despertam na cultura criações e produções que apontam para o que o mundo ainda não foi e desencadeiam, no mundo, o seu ainda? Este volume, que reúne material inédito, mas conservado e organizado com primor para publicação, assim como a emersão de um romance infelizmente inacabado, supõe o exultante reencontro, talvez o último, com a literatura de um autor imprescindível e um pioneiro no trato das questões de gênero na literatura brasileira.

Textos inéditos e póstumos

Educação natural

When an unemployed poet finds himself thrown in jail after raping his neighbor, his time in the slammer is mysteriously cut short when he's abruptly taken to a new home -- a countryside manor where his every need seen to. All that's required of him is to . . . write poetry. Just who are his captors, Kurt and Otávio? What of the alluring maid, Amália, and her charge, a woman with cancer named Gerda? And, most alarmingly of all, why does Kurt suddenly appear to be aging so much faster than he should? Reminiscent of the films of David Lynch, and written in João Gilberto Noll's distinctive postmodern style -- a strange world of surfaces seemingly without rational cause and effect --Quiet Creature on the Corner is the English-language debut of one of Brazil's most popular and celebrated authors. Written during Brazil's transition from military dictatorship to democracy -- and capturing the disjointed feel of that rapidly changing world --Quiet Creature is mysterious and abrupt, pivoting on choices that feel both arbitrary and inevitable. Like Kazuo Ishiguro, Noll takes us deep into the mind of person who's always missing a few crucial pieces of information. Is he moving toward an answer to why these people have taken him from jail, or is he just as lost as ever?

Quiet Creature on the Corner

A fúria do corpo

Romances e contos reunidos

"A former actor is on a journey that explores essential questions about identity, the power of art, the vanity of glory, and the meaning of life"--

João Gilberto Noll

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