“O Encontro Marcado” gets a commemorative edition and the publisher also plans a comic and a book with the exchange of letters with Clarice Lispector; Discover the best works and discover what’s new
Fernando Sabino, one of the great names in Brazilian literature and news, was born on October 12, 1923 in Belo Horizonte. Throughout his career as a journalist and writer, he has created unforgettable works, such as The appointed meetinghis most famous book, and The boy in the mirrora return to his childhood.
Having died on 11 October 2004, on the eve of his 81st birthday, following complications from liver cancer, he left his epitaph: “Here lies Fernando Sabino, born a man, died a boy”.
Sabino was a close friend of Otto Lara Resende, Paulo Mendes Campos and Helio Pellegrino – his childhood. Together they formed the so-called group of four miners. And other writers and artists coexisted, such as Rubem Braga, Vinicius de Moraes, Carlos Lacerda, Di Cavalcanti, Moacyr Werneck de Castro, Manuel Bandeira, Carlos Drummond de Andrade and many others.
A writer who mistook the law for journalism and Minas for Rio de Janeiro, Fernando Sabino made his literary debut in 1941 with a collection of his first stories in the book The crickets don’t sing anymore (1941). Fame came in 1956, with the publication of the novel The appointed meeting.
“Your book amazed me.” Thus begins the letter that Clarice Lispector sent to her long-time friend and correspondent on January 8, 1957. She was in Washington.
“I started reading your sharp sentences, which you so to speak don’t comment on and which seem to have the intention of saying nothing more than what they say, I started without knowing where they were going. At the beginning I was wondering where you wanted to lead the reader and if What surprised me is that – I don’t know at what moment or how – I unexpectedly found myself inside the book, understanding what you wanted, experiencing everything”, he continues. The letter follows – and it can be read in the book that collects all the author’s correspondence, published by Rocco, in the special edition of The appointed meetingwhich Record launches on the occasion of the writer’s centenary, and in another book scheduled for next year.
Future releases
The reprint of The appointed meeting is just one of Record’s editorial projects involving Sabino’s work.
In 2024 it plans to launch a new edition of Letters close to the heart – Correspondence with Clarice Lispector, 2001, with new features: photos, facsimiles and unpublished content.
Also releases a comic book version of The Great Mind, by Caco Galhardo. The Jabuti Prize-winning 1979 novel is based on his experience as an aspirant in the Juiz de Fora cavalry barracks.
The essential library of Fernando Sabino
On the centenary of the birth of the writer from Minas Gerais, discover some of the most important books in his bibliography.
The appointed meeting
A novel with autobiographical features, narrated almost exclusively in dialogues and a reflection of an entire generation, The appointed meeting, from 1956, was a success with critics and audiences and explores the reflections and experiences of a young man searching for himself and the reason for his life. Bohemia, dramas and errors permeate the story of the character, a writer, grappling with conflicts that caused him frustration and suffocated his vocation. The new edition, with hard cover and with a new graphic design, includes unpublished texts by Michel Laub and Adauto Leva, writer and owner of Livraria Cabeceira, as well as Clarice’s letter.
- Record (336 pages; R$109.90; commemorative edition; R$59.90 traditional)
The boy in the mirror
With humor, imagination and mischief, which translate into a bit of nostalgia, Fernando Sabino takes his young readers on a journey through little Fernando’s childhood. Published in 1980 and with over 100 editions to date, The boy in the mirror is one of Sabino’s most famous books. In it, the author shows the adventures of the boy who teaches a chicken to speak, learns to fly with birds, becomes invisible, visits the SÃtio do Picapau Amarelo, plays – and knows and recognizes himself in front of the mirror. “I place my right hand on the mirror. As expected, he comes with his left hand at the same time, placing it against mine. I smile at him and he at me. When I look at his face again, I see that I am amazed that he continues to smile. How , if I’m absolutely serious now? A shiver runs down my spine, making my skin crawl: there is someone alive inside the mirror!”, he writes.
- Record (176 pages; R$59.90; R$17.90 for the e-book; with illustrations by Carlos Scliar)
The Great Mind
Since 1979, The Great Mind centers on the story of Geraldo Viramundo, a well-intentioned miner who does good and believes in people, but ends up being used by them. His adventures and the twists and turns of his life take him from the seminary to the hospice and the army – and to cities like Ouro Preto, Barbacena, Juiz de Fora, Uberaba, Cataguases, Belo Horizonte and others. The work, which refers to Sabino’s experience of over three months as an aspirant in the Juiz de Fora Cavalry Barracks, won the Jabuti Prize
- Record (256 pages; R$54.90; R$37.90 for e-book)
The naked man
One of the writer’s best-known books, The naked man, from 1960, contains 40 stories and chronicles. The text that gives the work its title served as the screenplay for two films, one by Hugo Carvana with Claudio Marzo and the other with the actor Paulo José, stories that follow a police officer dealing with a deadly crime in which there are neither murderers nor murdered until a man was reduced to half of himself – always told with intelligence, precision and humour.
- Record (208 pages; R$59.90)
In the end it works
Collection with 50 chronicles and stories about everything: from the Christmases of lost childhood to the father’s teachings, meetings with friends, anecdotes with writers, clash of generations, nostalgia for the past, whistling, etc. Plucked here and there, some excerpts from In the end it works tell us a lot today. Read more about the book.
- Record (240 pages; 49.90; R$ 34.90 for e-book)
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