Moacyr Scliar

O romance Max e os Felinos, de Moacyr Scliar, narra a história de Max Schmidt, um alemão que, após ter um caso com uma mulher casada com um nazista, se vê obrigado a fugir de navio para o Brasil. Após a embarcação afundar, Max tem que completar sua jornada numa pequena jangada, acompanhado de um jaguar — um dos animais que estavam sendo transportados no barco. A obra foi apontada como inspiração para o livro "A Vida de Pi", de Yann Martel.

"Superb volume consists of Scliar's six collections of stories published between 1968-89, three of which have never before been rendered into English. Excellently translated, work conveys in fluent, evocative prose Scliar's enormous success in this difficult form. Stories range from biblical parables, through magical realism, to fantastic and humorous accounts. Concludes with a short autobiographical essay"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

A collection of fictional short stories. Feature story: "The short-story writers."

TODO O CARISMA DO HUMOR JUDAICO NUMA SÓ ANTOLOGIA Mais do que uma reunião de piadas e anedotas, este livro é um retrato único das especificidades do humor judaico, com todos os seus contornos de melancolia, neurose e auto‑ironia. Partindo de tudo o que ao longo da História tem sido matéria‑prima para o riso do povo hebreu, chega‑se assim, com erudição e graça, ao seu ethos. De passagens bíblicas e do Talmude a Woody Allen ou Philip Roth, de piadas sobre Hitler ao humor científico de Einstein, passando por ilustrações de Moisés a brincar com a sopa e por muita psicanálise, esta colectânea palmilha vários continentes, acolhe muitas influências e abrange diversos autores.

This book is a great metaphor for the political issues that was taking place in Brazil at the time this book was written by Moacyr Scliar. This book was recently matter of discussion due to the prized book “Life of Pi” in which a film by the same name was made and is turning a real success of public. Life o Pi by the Canadian writer Yamn Martel is too similar to this book by Moacyr Scliar. It caused some controversy including some plagiarism accusations. But the Brazilian author who passed away in 2011 decided not to sue Yam Martel, considering it was not a plagiarism itself but the appropriation of his idea, something that has happened several times in the history of literature. But Scliar said in an interview to get very upset about the way Martel said to get in touch with his book almost disdaining him as a second category writer.

"Through the local children's imaginative fantasy of a pretend war, tells the story of the day-to-day survival of Jews in Porto Alegre, Brazil, during World War II. The first novel by Brazilian-Jewish author Moacyr Scliar; translated by David William Foster"--Provided by publisher.

"Follows the actions of Benjamin Kantarovitch, nicknamed "Mousy," relating a series of missteps, misinterpretations, and misidentifications involving Franz Kafka and one of his most famous parables"--Provided by publisher.