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Occupation

Julián Fuks

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9781916277878
UPC:
9781916277878
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Published by:
Charco Press
Translated by:
Daniel Hahn
Pub date:
08/17/2021
Binding type:
Paperback
Pages:
150
ISBN:
9781916277878

Known and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel Resistance, Julián Fuks returns to his auto-fictional alter ego Sebastián in a narrative alternating between the writer's conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown São Paulo, his father's sickness, and his wife's pregnancy. With impeccable prose, the author builds associations that go beyond the obvious, not only between glimpsing a life's beginning and end, but also between the building's occupation and his wife's pregnancy -- showcasing the various forms of occupation while exposing the frailty of life, the risk of solitude and the brutality of not belonging.