Para gostar de ler - Volume 13 – Histórias Divertidas

Para Gostar de Ler #13

by Fernando Sabino, Arthur Azevedo, Machado de Assis

O que é o cômico? Esta é uma pergunta quase impossível de ser respondida - que dirá em poucas linhas! Talvez o modo mais simples de chegar a alguma conclusão seja pensar o que situações engraçadas provocam em nós mesmos.

Diversão, riso e reflexão são algumas das sensações suscitadas pelo cômico nesta antologia. A partir delas, grandes escritores como Lima Barreto, Fernando Sabino, Stanislaw Ponte Preta e Luís Fernando Veríssimo criam narrativas em que o bom humor se evidencia.

E ele está presente quando topamos com um macaco azul; quando o noivo motoqueiro não tira o capacete nem no altar ou quando um homem cria estratagemas para vencer a guerra contra seu cachorro. Nesses momentos os textos aqui reunidos revelam, hábil e surpreendentemente, uma comicidade ímpar - e que permanece engraçada a cada leitura.

Genres: Brazil

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Fernando Sabino (October 12, 1923 - October 11, 2004) was a Brazilian writer and journalist.
Sabino was born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, where he lived until he was twenty, when he moved to Rio de Janeiro.
Sabino was the author of 50 books, as well as many short stories and essays. His first book was published in 1941, when he was just 18 years old. Sabino vaulted to national and international fame in 1956 with the novel A Time to Meet, the tale of three friends in the inland city of Belo Horizonte. The book was inspired by Sabino's life history.
Sabino also enjoyed commercial success with The Great Insane and The Naked Man, which were made into films.
Sabino considered friendship to be one of the most important things in life. His circle of friends included Hélio Pellegrino, Otto Lara Resende, Paulo Mendes Campos, Rubem Braga, Clarice Lispector, Vinicius de Moraes, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Mário de Andrade, and Manuel Bandeira.
In the last ten years of his life, Sabino was distant from the media. Many of his close friends died before him. Two years before his death, Sabino was diagnosed with cancer. Following a prolonged illness, he died one day before his 81st birthday in his Rio de Janeiro home.