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Mario Pedrosa knew how to unite art and politics like few others.politics. As a visual arts critic participated actively in the constitution of the main vanguards of the of the second half of the 20th century. As an agitator and and political thinker he was fundamental in the construction broader and freer propositions for socialism in Brazil. in Brazil. This volume of the Coleção Encontros, by interviews with the various facets of this who was one of the most one of the most active Brazilian intellectuals of the of the 20th century, allows a broad view of his his trajectory. "In the peripheral countries, in the underdeveloped belt, the vanguards also appear, but here their purpose would rather be to affirm themselves as up to date. They have, however, their eyes set on the irresistible changes dictated by the law of the civilization of consumption for consumption's sake, that is, that of the great markets. This is why our "avant-garde" artists are always running after the latest novelty."

Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian naturalized Brazilian, is today rated as one of the greatest names in 20th century literature. Although she was discreet about her personal life, Clarice gave great interviews interviews, where she exposed her ideas on literature and existential and existential concerns. This volume of the This volume of the Encounters collection to the public some of the nuances of this woman a woman who was a mystery even to herself."What I feel is that a book, a book, a book, a book, a book, a book, a book, a book, a book, a book, a book, a book, starts to have a life of its own. It is like the offspring of an animal. The making of the book, whatever the content, be it short stories or novels, is always something painful. is always painful. An agonizing process. Once this suffering is over, that is, once the the labor, I want the book to get out there, to turn itself around."

In Six Suns, we follow the meeting between a "transmitter" of dreams and six "sowers" writer and composer Jorge Mautner, creator of the Mythology of Kaos; beat poet Michael McClure, who created a mammal poetry; poet and filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, creator of the psychomagic; beat-surrealist poet Roberto Piva; indigenous thinker Ailton Krenak and singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil. All conversations revolve around the quest to build a solarpunk future, marked by a utopian, just, beautiful, egalitarian, and free society. A society that is above all in motion, changeable, marked by dreams and poetry.

poet, editor, activist in cultural policies, investigator of the most obscure memory of Brazilian literary discourse, promoter of Amerindian languages, his legacy, still in expansion, can already be dear to us. if life is risk, sergio chose to face it, without losing the tenacity of the libertarians and the boldness of the "dangerous ones". and is there anyone more dangerous than the poet willing to think the world through the radical key of poetry?

Tom Zé (1936) has a particular Tropicália in him. His reading of that ephemeral and eternal moment in Brazilian music is unique. In the same way, his formal fidelity to the movement is unique - Tom Zé is often referred to as the last Tropicalist. "We Tropicalists wanted to be part of the world. And not be something apart from the world, like a folklore of the world. So, thanks to that, the Brazilian song was very much modified in its structure, both in its chordological structure and in its formal structure, ."The collection Cadernos de Música presents an essay that discusses his life and his musical revolution, along with an exclusive interview (2019) and his discography.

Although contemporary of the so-called "Marginal Poetry" of the 1970s, the poet Afonso Henriques Neto differs from it by his imagistic language on the edge of the abyss, marked by an acid look at the dictatorial context that Brazilian youth faced at the time. Afonso Henriques Neto is considered one of the most original authors of the period, by uniting in his poetry a conscious work on surrealism and Brazilian modernism, without ever losing the existential element marked by the counterculture of his generation.

Alberto Pucheu is the author of a hybrid poetry, inhabiting, sometimes harmonically, sometimes dramatically, a kind of frontier, it is torn all the time between verse and prose, voice and lyrics, the autobiographical and the impersonal, the lyrical notation and the reflective data of the essay, literature and philosophy.

Considered the main representative of the beat generation in Brazil, Roberto Piva is one of the most indomitable poets of his time. A pioneering author of LGBTQIA+ texts, a deep researcher of Amerindian and Afro-Brazilian poetry, a surrealist writer capable of realizing poetic images of great originality, Piva is considered a milestone in Brazilian poetry, for his life and work. As he himself states, "I don't believe in an experimental poet without an experimental life".

Includes previously published essays on the Tropicâalia movement as well as interviews with people instrumental to the movement.

Ronaldo Bastos é um dos principais compositores da canção brasileira. Consegue estar ao mesmo tempo no centro da tradição mais sofisticada e inventiva da canção brasileira e ser também uma espécie de estrangeiro para esta mesma tradição. Ele foi um dos criadores e conceituadores mais destacados do Clube da Esquina, o movimento musical que revolucionou a poética e a estética da canção brasileira e teve como expoentes artistas do porte de Milton Nascimento, Beto Guedes e Lô Borges. Suas canções foram gravadas por nomes como Caetano Veloso, Elis Regina, Tom Jobim, Edu Lobo, Gal Costa, Maria Bethânia, Adriana Calcanhotto. Hotel Universo traz uma antologia e uma análise profunda do cancioneiro e da lírica de Ronaldo Bastos, realizada por Marcos Lacerda, importante crítico musical da nova geração.

Encontros (Meetings) is the largest and most prestigious book collection of interviews with Brazilian artists and thinkers. With more than 50 published titles, Encontros provides a broad panorama of Brazil's cultural and intellectual wealth. Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos is a classic of Brazilian social thought. His daring analyses reveal a shrewd social scientist, who associates an unappealing personal inclination for to the trait of being an attentive analyst obsessed with rigor in the pursuit of the data and facts in his sights. This volume of the Encontros Collection gathers the best interviews of this passionate thinker about the phenomenon of political processes.

Encontros (Meetings) is the largest and most prestigious book collection of interviews with Brazilian artists and thinkers. With more than 50 published titles, Encontros provides a broad panorama of Brazil's cultural and intellectual wealth. Julio Cortázar is one of the most important writers of the 20th century. This special volume of the Encontros Collection is the result of interviews conducted between 1970 and 1977, in Paris, Barcelona, and Saignon, by Uruguayan writer and journalist Ernesto González Bermejo. In them, he reveals a Cortázar, at the same time intimate and extremely lucid about the procedures of his writing, in engaging talks about literature and his political commitment in the last years of his life. An indispensable book to get to know this great Argentinean author.

Zicartola was the emblematic restaurant created in the mid-1960s by the sambista Cartola and his wife Zica, in rua do Carioca, downtown Rio de Janeiro. It was a privileged meeting place, where sambistas from the old and the new guard drank, talked, and played together. From Nara Leão to Zé Kéti, from Paulinho da Viola to Nelson Cavaquinho, everybody went there. And it was also a space of political resistance, in the middle of the Brazilian military dictatorship. This is the story told in this beautiful book.

Neste livro, reunimos um conjunto de textos sobre história cultural e história da ciência. Focalizamos especificamente a história da autoria. As correlações históricas entre o nome do autor, a assinatura e a obra aparecem de muitas maneiras. Em diferentes momentos, a caracterização de autor científico e de um autor literário pode obedecer a distintos critérios de atribuição. Tal reflexão histórica ilumina a discussão na atualidade quando a produção intelectual e o campo editorial se inserem na sociedade da informação e se disseminam através de redes eletrônicas. No entanto, com todo o seu potencial inovador, as tecnologias e os meios digitais até o momento continuam coexistindo com os livros e as publicações impressas, instrumentos de leitura que se mostram insubstituíveis, apesar dos novos instrumentos fornecidos pela revolução tecnológica.

In this book, sociologist Amélia Cohn analyzes, in a pioneering way, the letters received by President Lula during his first two terms in office (2003-2010). In these letters, written by citizens from different regions of the country, it is possible to perceive the effect of public policies on society and also analyze the most urgent demands, the political and bureaucratic challenges, and the way people saw and related to the president.

Encontros (Meetings) is the largest and most prestigious book collection of interviews with Brazilian artists and thinkers. With more than 50 published titles, Encontros provides a broad panorama of Brazil's cultural and intellectual wealth. Manoel de Barros is one of the most original Brazilian poets of all times. Following Oswald de Andrade's example of "seeing with free eyes," his his poetry creates surprises from the trivial of words and the world, taking us to new spaces of language. So too is his speech presented here, in an original selection of his interviews.

Los poemas e ilustraciones que componen este libro fueron creados como una asociación lúdica entre un padre poeta y su hijo de ocho años. Los poemas, escritos a cuatro manos, muestran la mirada divertida de un niño sobre el deporte y el reino animal. Un libro de un niño para un niño, pero también para que lo disfrute toda la familia.

The Biblioteca Básica Latino-Americana was originally conceived by Darcy Ribeiro during his years of exile in the 1960s-1970s. The proposal of the collection is thus to promote reflection on Latin American thought, presented in a comprehensive way, through essays and texts by important artists and thinkers. Lélia de Almeida Gonzalez, one of the forerunners of black feminism in Brazil, fought and lived for racial and gender equality and traveled the world showing its urgency. In this exclusive volume, we have gathered some of her main essays on Afro-Brazilian culture and the struggle against racial and gender prejudice.

The Biblioteca Básica Latino-Americana was originally conceived by Darcy Ribeiro during his years of exile in the 1960s-1970s. The proposal of the collection is thus to promote reflection on Latin American thought, presented in a comprehensive way, through essays and texts by important artists and thinkers. This volume brings together essays by the great Argentine literary critic Saúl Sosnowski, one of the greatest experts on the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, providing a cartography of Spanish-American literature.

The Biblioteca Básica Latino-Americana was originally conceived by Darcy Ribeiro during his years of exile in the 1960s-1970s. The proposal of the collection is thus to promote reflection on Latin American thought, presented in a comprehensive way, through essays and texts by important artists and thinkers. Darcy Ribeiro was the Brazilian thinker who most deeply immersed himself in the reflection and proposition about Latin America, always in the original and interventive way that marked all his political and intellectual performance.

The poems and illustrations that make up this book were created as a playful partnership between a poet father and his eight-year-old son. The poems, written by four hands, show a child's playful look at sports and the animal kingdom. A book by a child for a child, but also for the whole family to enjoy.

Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. Ericson Pires (1971-2012) was one of the main cultural agitators in Rio de Janeiro in the decades 1990-2000. Poet, researcher, musician, and performer, he created an original work, as can be seen in the present essay, about the contemporary visual arts scene.

Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. Published in the Jornal do Brasil's Sunday Supplement at the time of Brasília's inauguration, the national architecture survey created a rich panorama of the thought around architecture and urbanism at the time, with the participation of great names such as Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer, and Sérgio Bernardes.

Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. Sociologist Renan Springer de Freitas is one of the main Brazilian names in the philosophy of science, as can be seen in the two texts gathered here, "In search of non-parochial sociology" and "The saga of good science".

Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. By analyzing the quasi cinema of Hélio Oiticica and Neville de Almeida in the proposition of Cosmococas, and their dialogue with current transcinemas, poet and critic Katia Maciel creates an important reflection on the possibilities of reinvention around the seventh art.

Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. The present volume brings together the two pioneering educators' manifestos of 1932 and 1959 in favor of a secular, democratic, and free education.

Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. Filmmaker Rogério Sganzerla, considered one of the biggest names in Brazilian cinema, presents in this volume, originally written in the mid-1960s, a defense of modern cinema as an exercise in freedom.

Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. In this dense, long-winded essay, literary critic Luís Augusto Fischer analyzes the relations and differences between the works and trajectories of Machado de Assis and Jorge Luis Borges.

Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. Anthropologist, educator, and politician, Darcy Ribeiro was one of the most active and propositive Brazilian thinkers. The texts gathered here show Darcy Ribeiro in his full capacity to think and imagine, with boldness and beauty, about Brazilian culture in a broad way.

Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. In two seminal essays, Walter Garcia, considered one of the most important researchers on Brazilian music, makes an in-depth analysis of the work of Racionais MC's, the most important Brazilian RAP group.