Eden-Brazil / Moacyr Scliar ; translated by Malcolm K. McNee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scliar, Moacyr, author.

Contributor:

McNee, Malcolm, translator.

Series:

Brazilian literature in translation series ; bk. 7.

Brazilian literature in translation series ; 7

Standardized Title:

Éden-Brasil. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Divorced men--Brazil--Fiction.

Divorced men.

Actors--Brazil--Fiction.

Actors.

Ecotourism--Brazil--Fiction.

Ecotourism.

Eden--Fiction.

Eden.

Brazil.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

v, 114 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dartmouth, Massachusetts : Tagus Press/ UMass Dartmouth, [2019]

Language Note:

Translated from the Portuguese.

Summary:

"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"--Amazon.com.

Contents:

1 Introducing My Friend, Adamastor p. 1

2 Adamastor's Project p. 5

3 Eden-Brazil Is Born p. 12

4 Introducing an Ambitious Young Actor: Myself p. 25

5 Adamastor Makes His Proposal, Decent or Indecent p. 37

6 I Start to Get into the Spirit of Things p. 40

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

8 The End of the Dream? p. 75

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

10 The Descendant of Peri p. 85

11 The New Production Begins p. 91

12 Getting-by Force of Destiny-Real p. 98

13 An Ending That Might Even Be Considered Happy p. 103.

ISBN:

9781933227917

1933227915

OCLC:

1066177806

Publisher Number:

99982383489