Gloria
Published on 23. July 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-1-908670-85-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Alencar Costa e Oliveira family talk to each other through inside jokes, often saying the opposite of what they mean, or repeating the same sentence until it acquires new meaning. But they also have a dark inheritance: every member of the family has died of the same cause - acute melancholy.
From the author of The Love of Singular Men comes a family saga like no other. Equal parts postmodern, tender and satirical, Gloria follows three brothers - Benjamin, Daniel and Abel - as they do battle with online forums, religious hysteria, the art world of Rio de Janeiro, ants, aunts, love, humiliation and a stammering God.
From the author of The Love of Singular Men comes a family saga like no other. Equal parts postmodern, tender and satirical, Gloria follows three brothers - Benjamin, Daniel and Abel - as they do battle with online forums, religious hysteria, the art world of Rio de Janeiro, ants, aunts, love, humiliation and a stammering God.
Reviews / Votes
PRAISE FOR VICTOR HERINGER 'When you read something genuinely new it's hard to describe it - you end up settling for comparisons - and The Love of Singular Men is truly a singular novel. It's ingenious like Cortazar or Nabokov, elliptical like Grace Paley, funny like Donald Barthelme. Upon finishing it you want to immediately meet the young man who wrote it, shake him vigorously by the hand and congratulate him on the beginning of a brilliant career. But Victor Heringer is gone. He left this beautiful book behind.' - Zadie Smith --------------------------'Victor Heringer scrambles genres - tragic romance, pulpy noir, family drama - to plumb the false solace that narrative promises... its style, in James Young's deft translation, is itself bracing, depraved, and, in the way only something truly melancholic can be, very funny.' - Charlie Lee, The New York Review of Books -------------------------- 'That the author died in 2018, aged 29, is a loss to international literature.' - John Self, The GuardianMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 120 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
274 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-908670-85-4 (9781908670854)
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Victor Heringer was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1988. His poetry collection, automatografo, was published by 7Letras in 2011, followed by his debut novel, Gloria, which was awarded the 2013 Jabuti Prize. His second novel, The Love of Singular Men, was published by Companhia das Letras in 2016 and in English by Peirene Press in 2023, and was shortlisted for the Sao Paulo Prize for Literature, the Rio Prize for Literature and the Oceanos Prize. In 2017 he was selected by Forbes Brasil for their 'Forbes under 30' list. Victor Heringer died in 2018, three weeks before his thirtieth birthday. Following his death, Companhia das Letras reissued all of his works and published a collection of his non-fiction writing, Vida desinteressante, which was
shortlisted for the 2022 Jabuti Prize.
shortlisted for the 2022 Jabuti Prize.