Vertiginous Life: Bilingual Edition - Hardcover

Rio, Joćo De

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0998543608 ISBN 13: 9780998543604

Publisher: New London Librarium, 2017

Synopsis

Rio de Janeiro in 1911 was a venerable city in a new republic just a generation old. The people of Rio felt as new as the new century. A new culture of immigration and education blossomed.  New technologies of machinery—Automobiles! Airplanes!—advanced with blinding speed. Feminism! Advertisement! Democracy! Global travel! New journalism! Tea, slander, migrant camps, uppity servants! Life in Rio de Janeiro was dizzying. Vertiginous. 

In the giddy swirl of modernity, literary journalist Joćo do Rio aimed his critical eye at a great city and society in transformation. His collection of articles, Vida Vertiginosa, is presented here for the first time in the English language. It ranks with his Religions in Rio as a classic of Brazilian nonfiction. 

Joćo do Rio was a journalist way ahead of his time. A man of the streets, the people, the bars and restaurants, sui generis, dapper and openly gay, he approached reportage with a style all his own. He saw what others did not see, and he wrote about it with inimitable linguistic flare.

Ana Lessa-Schmidt's brilliant translation captures Joćo do Rio's unique style of disregarding grammar to present the essence of a scene. 

About this title

About the Author

Joćo do Rio was the pseudonym of the Brazilian journalist, short-story writer and playwright Joćo Paulo Emķlio Cristóvćo dos Santos Coelho Barreto, a Brazilian author and journalist of African descent (August 5, 1881, Rio de Janeiro – June 23, 1921, Rio de Janeiro). He was elected on May 7, 1910 for the chair # 26 of Brazilian Academy of Letters. Joćo do Rio was the author of many books, plays, essays, and articles. Among the few translated into English are "Vertiginous Life" and "Religions in Rio." Translator Ana Lessa-Schmidt, Ph.D., is a scholar of Brazilian culture, senior translation editor at New London Librarium, and translator of books by Joćo do Rio and Machado de Assis.

Edition details

• Publisher: New London Librarium
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0998543608
• ISBN 13: 9780998543604
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 476
• Editor: Cheney Glenn Alan