{"title":"Highlights","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaldita's catalogue is not the biggest, nor does it cover every new release.  It is made of the titles that left a mark on us. The ones we've read, in other words. The ones we can recommend to you (or not), as a result. From the warmth of Manuel Jabois to the brutal delicacy of Bukowski, here you'll find the books that rescue us from the vertigo of complicity with \"the way things are\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.malditalivraria.com\/products\/quatro-entrevistas-com-george-steiner\"\u003eWe are accomplices to whatever leaves us indifferent\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr\u003eReading them will protect you from that numbness. That's enough for us.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sobre-o-amor","title":"About Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCould there be a worse writer than Charles Bukowski to write about love? Probably not. 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Thirty brief stories, consistently biting and grotesque, in which we frequently encounter the infamous \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ealter ego\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Chinaski and the usual suspects in the author's alcoholic tales: lives run aground, intoxicated by incurable frustrations, men seeking redemption through a sock and a half and betting time and again on the wrong horses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe stories collected here are tonics for the sordid and obscure vein in all of us and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eflashes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e of the solitary nature of man, clearly captured by this destructive post-beat messenger. 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The book portrays his day-to-day life at the post office, a job he hated from day one but which would stick with him for many years, his nights of excess, fueled by alcohol and accompanied by various women, and also the way his marriages fell apart, one after another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book revolves around this character, and, with so many flaws, what makes this book good? The way \u003cstrong\u003eChinaski \/\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBukowski\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e describes his day-to-day life. His dark and incisive humor makes even the most skeptical reader burst out laughing. 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(Língua Morta, Editorial Note)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTall, thin and gangly, bald, wearing glasses with very thick lenses due to severe myopia, dressed in worn (sometimes tattered and undersized) clothes, hypersensitive to alcohol (he liked red wine and beer), hypochondriac always on the verge of death (due to asthma and a weak heart), impenitently cynical and honest, paradoxical and disconcerting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe devoted himself to literary and cultural criticism, becoming famous (and feared) for his sarcastic, irreverent, and controversial reviews, and denounced the intellectual dishonesty and censorship imposed by the Salazar regime. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnother Day of Night (Documentary):\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cspan\u003e\"Luiz Pacheco is a two-legged paradox\". This is just one of the definitions attributed to the man\/writer\/publisher\/literary critic. 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