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Moacyr Scliar

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by Jorge Amado and Moacyr Scliar
Translated by Barbara Shelby Merello

by Moacyr Scliar
Translated by Eloah F. Giacomelli
Original title: O Exercito do um homem so

One-Man Army starts with a brief run-down of the origins of the Jewish population in Scliar’s hometown Porto Alegre; they were escapees from Baron Rothchild’s agricultural colonies, designed to re-settle the ‘surplus Jews’ of the violently anti-Semitic Tsarist Empire. (more...)

The Centaur in the Garden [Buy Direct]

by Moacyr Scliar
Translated by Margaret A. Neves
Original title: O Centauro no jardim

Moacyr Scliar is a Brazilian Jew, and says that the spirit of his writing lies in his early background: he went to a Yiddish High School in Porto Alegre. ‘As much as possible I live in peace with my Jewishness’, he says. ‘I have extracted from it what it has of the best: fantasy, (more...)

The Ballad of the False Messiah [Buy Direct]

by Moacyr Scliar
Original title: Balada do Falso Messias

In Ballad of the False Messiah we get eleven of Moacyr Scliar’s best stories, mostly on Jewish or Jewish-Brazilian themes. The title piece is a bittersweet, brief re-telling of the Shabbatai Zevi story ‘transferred to a Jewish agricultural colony in Southern Brazil. (more...)

The Strange Nation of Rafael Mendes

by Moacyr Scliar
Translated by Eloah F. Giacomelli
Original title: Estranha naçao de Rafael Mendes

Scliar, a descendant of Russian-Jewish immigrants from the beginning of the century, has, since the early 1960s, led a dual career as a medical practitioner in Porto Alegre, capital of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, and as Brazil’s leading Jewish fiction writer. (more...)

Carnival of the Animals [Buy Direct]

by Moacyr Scliar
Translated by Eloah F. Giacomelli
Original title: O Carnaval dos animais

Gods of Raquel [Buy Direct]

by Moacyr Scliar
Original title: Os Deuses de Raquel

Scliar seems to have found a wonderfully eccentric and essential way of talking about ‘being Jewish in Brazil’. As a society that is both Catholic, (more...)

Max and the Cats: A Novel

by Moacyr Scliar
Translated by Eloah F. Giacomelli
Original title: Max e os felinos

Max and the Cats is perhaps Scliar’s most genial book, written with charm and simplicity, that takes a serious enough subject (forced emigration and making a life in a new continent) but treats it in a surprising, sometimes fantastical way. (more...)

The Enigmatic Eye [Buy Direct]

by Moacyr Scliar
Translated by Eloah F. Giacomelli
Original title: O Olho enigmatico

Enigmatic Eye is a short story collection, in fact a collection of very short stories. The best pieces here, the title story for example, are startling and suggestive; time-delayed depth charges to go off in a readers consciousness years later.... (more...)

The Volunteers [Buy Direct]

by Moacyr Scliar
Original title: Os Voluntários

Moacyr Scliar is a native of Porto Alegre in the Southern ‘Gaucho’ state of Rio Grande do Sul. The city gets an affectionate salute in this book, particular the world of small shops and their keepers, here shown as very much an immigrant band of Portuguese, (more...)

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