#semiautobiography

[decayffeinated]

8 Brazilian Books translated to English

Here's some suggestions of Brazilian classics, short stories and a queer ya novel to expand your reading. All the Classics are of public domain. The titles marked with an asterisk * have a link to read online.

Classics

Senhora (Profile of a woman) * by José de Alencar: Heroine uses newly inherited wealth to "buy back" greedy fiancé who had left her for a woman with a more enticing dowry.

(Goodreads summary)

Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis: Explores the themes of marriage and adultery, with an unreliable narrator who leaves room for ambiguous readings (my personal fave)

O Ateneu by Raul Pompeia: The traditional boarding school as an opressive setting that reproduces the power structure of the Brazilian society. A semiautobiography about childhood and loss of innocence.

Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (aka Epitaph of a Small Winner) * by Machado de Assis: A pessimistic account of 19th Brazilian society, narrated by a corpse.

(Goodreads summary)

Clara dos Anjos * by Lima Barreto: A story about a black girl pursuing romance in the racist and elitist early 20th Brazilian society. Sad ending. The link also provides a small biography of the author.

Young Adult

Here the whole time by Vitor Martins: m/m romance that deals with body image insecurities and repressed crushes.

Short stories

The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis*: Includes more than 50 stories, including The Fortune-Teller (a tale about fate and forbidden love with an ironic twist)

The Pigs * by Julia Lopes de Almeida: A horror story about the violence young mothers suffer in rural communities. Very sad ending.

I would be grateful if y'all could confirm the links are working. Good reading!

EDIT: Corrected "The Pigs" link

[goddamnwebcomics]

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Hence why Jon calls it a SEMI-autobiography, dude. Seriously. You keep stating this as a “autobiography” when he states otherwise multiple times throughout all of it up to even having it in a banner. At this point, you’re just stubborn to not correct yourself for riff purposes when you keep misleadingly saying it’s an autobiography.

Look, I’m not going to defend this fool. Personally, I would just like Jon to not do this in general and just write a story with aspects of his life like how other webcomic authors do in these, but if he’s going to say it’s a semi-autobiography then it pretty much is one regardless of what you’re calling it.

A semitruck is still a truck, semiautomatic is still automatic, semicolon is stil a colon and semiautobiography is still an autobiography. The word “semiautobiographical”, granted it’s an actual word and not horseshit Jon invented, should still keep things GROUNDED. TO. REALITY. When you introduce ghosts and worms and ghosthunters and shit, there is no reality to be looked at. Jon should drop that completely, Jon can call it semiautobiographical, quasiautobiographical, yotta-autobiographical, as long as the “autobiographical” is in the subtitle I will continue to make fun of Jon for it.

[vaugarde]

ok even if op ended up being annoying tho i still agree with the lgbt book recs post so like does anyone have any lgbt fantasy book recs

[longforyesterday]

Cleave found Starr sensible and uncomplicated; Harrison was revealing if uncompromising once he had made up his mind. McCartney, in contrast, was a puzzle. According to her analysis neither his “sweet” looks nor his music provided a true picture of the man’s character. Her portrayal of his personality extended beyond the rote description of merely “charming” that dominated the public perception. According to Cleave McCartney displayed “shriveling wit, a critical intelligence and enormous talent.” Harrison had told Cleave that he had not deliberately pursued fame, but McCartney openly embraced it. Cleave acknowledged his geographic separation from the other Beatles as the only London-based member: “He is half-Beatle and half not.” Immersed in a self-admitted “‘self-improvement kick,’” as Cleave labeled it, McCartney made it clear he was determined to be viewed as more than the band’s prettiest face and sweetest singer.  McCartney peppered the interview with art and literature references, citing his fascination with avant-garde figures Stockhausen and Luciano Berio and his drive for radical artistic stimulation: “People are saying things and painting things and writing things and composing things that are great, and I must know what people are doing.” Decades later in his semiautobiography, McCartney criticized what he viewed as the inaccurate portrayal of him in that period, possibly offering motivation for why he discussed his avant-garde art interests so extensively with Cleave: “At the time I was known as the cute Beatle, the ballad Beatle or whatever. I hate to think what I was known as. John was the cynical one, the wise Beatle, the intellectual. In fact at that time it was wildly in reverse.” In Starr’s profile he had expressed affection for the United States, but McCartney was more critical, lamenting America’s lack of a BBC and harshly condemning its history of racial discrimination.

Erin Torkelson Weber, The Beatles and the Historians

[sethscriptstyle]

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[michongg]

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[ktienh]

Day 4 of #DABSummerChallenge : a translated book. My pick is because it's the first translated book from Bahasa Indonesia that I came across. I picked it for my f2f bookclub too and everyone enjoyed it saying that it is very inspirational. Even more so when you find out that it's semi-autobiographical! Education & hard work do bring the world to your feet 🤓 . Those 4 little balls are pineapple tarts. They are one of my favourite Indonesian snacks 🤗 . #TheRainbowTroops #AndreaHirata #translation #Indonesia #fiction #semiautobiography #education #teachers #students #poverty #dreams #bookstagram #pineappletarts #nomnomnom

[keitaiirenwa]

regardless. anime castiel novak is supposed to be the same guy as the person who wrote this wreck of a semiautobiography …. i cant take it. the entire premise of bsd makes me want to tear my eyes out from the sheer blasphemy of it all

mark twain was a villain btw he had a fuckin missile launcher

[sjblind]

"People talk of "social outcasts." The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a "social outcast" from the moment I was born. If I ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness."

Osamu Dazai - No Longer Human (via sjblind)