The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil's Everyday Insurrections
『The Collector of Leftover Souls』は、ブラジルの周縁化された人びとと地域を追ったエリアーニ・ブルムのルポルタージュを英訳で集めた本である。アマゾン、ファヴェーラ、老人ホーム、金採掘の現場などを通じ、日常の中の抵抗と尊厳を描く。
作品情報
見落とされがちな人びとの声が、ブラジルの現在を別の角度から照らす。
二冊のポルトガル語著作から選ばれた文章を収め、ブラジルの都市と森林のはざまにある生活を多声的に描く。資源開発、暴力、ケア、貧困の現場で、人びとがどのように意味と喜びを作るかを追う。
レビュー要約
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取材対象への距離の近さと、人物を単純な被害者にしない描き方が評価されている。社会問題を扱いながら、個々の生の複雑さを残している点が印象的である。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Graywolf Pr
- 発売日
- 2019-10-15
- ページ数
- 222ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 14.43 x 1.8 x 21.06 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781644450055
- ISBN-10
- 1644450054
- 価格
- 3365 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Education & Reference/Writing, Research & Publishing Guides/Writing/Journalism & Nonfiction
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature Urgent investigative essays covering a wide range of humanity in Brazil, from the Amazon to the favelas Eliane Brum is a star journalist in Brazil, known for her polyphonic writing that gives voice to people often underrepresented in popular literature. Brum’s reporting takes her into Brazil’s most marginalized communities: she visits the Amazon to understand the practice of indigenous midwives, stays in São Paulo’s favelas to witness the joy of a marriage and the tragedy of young men dying due to drugs and guns, and wades through the mud to capture the boom and bust of modern-day gold rushes. Brum is an enormously sensitive and perceptive interlocutor, and as she visits these places she provides intimate glimpses into both everyday and extraordinary lives: a poor father on the way to bury his son, a street performer who eats glass, a woman living out her final 115 days, and a hoarder rescuing the “leftover souls” of the city. The Collector of Leftover Souls showcases the best of Brum’s work from two books, combining short profiles with longer reported pieces . These vibrant missives range across current issues such as the human cost of exploiting natural resources, the Belo Monté Dam’s eradication of a way of life for those on the banks of the Xingu River, and the contrast between urban centers and remote villages. Told in the vibrant and idiomatic language of the people Brum writes about, The Collector of Leftover Souls is a vital work of investigative journalism from an internationally acclaimed author.
Eliane Brum is a writer, journalist, and documentary filmmaker, and the author of five books of nonfiction and the novel One Two. She has won more than forty journalism prizes and honors, is a columnist for El País , and collaborates with The Guardian .
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Ótimo livro da ótima escritora e jornalista Eliane Brum. Ela escreve com sensibilidade, envolvimento e entusiasmo. Todos seus livros são maravilhosos.
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Great stories and writing.. excellent!!!
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Great set of disparate stories of modern day Brazil. From the favalas of São Paulo to the mishandling of the Amazon rainforest. Only downside is it’s not long enough
関連する文学賞
- ナショナル・ブック賞（翻訳文学） 第2回（2019年） ・Longlisted