{"product_id":"mais-uma-desilusao","title":"Another disappointment","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst poetry book, published in 2021. The work is part of a literary tradition that seeks to question national identity and its contradictions, articulating personal experiences with a critical reading of the historical and social context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRomão constructs a collection of poems that address issues related to memory, childhood, individual formation, and the relationship with a country that oscillates between the promise of modernity and the vestiges of an authoritarian past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe writing is characterized by attention to detail, maintaining a rigorous and demanding register. \u003cem\u003eMais uma Desilusão\u003c\/em\u003e is an exercise in cultural diagnosis, which confronts the reader with the complexity of a reality in transformation. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Abysmo: \"\u003cspan\u003eIn his first poetry book, Valério Romão joins the long tradition of creators whose work contains a facet of questioning and diagnosing the strange and apparently incurable condition of \"being Portuguese\". \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eStarting from the reflection in the mirror, he contrasts his own formative experiences – including childhood memories and growing pains – with the fertile territory of contradictions and promises of a country orphaned from its Atlantic fantasy and the territories that belonged to it, launched into the arms of a deep-pocketed European Union with – apparently – reasonable demands, eager to shake off the mold of five decades of dictatorship to finally reach the long-desired and mysterious modernity and, while we are at it and in the same breath, adulthood. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt a time when Marshall McLuhan's prophetic expression, according to which \"the medium is the message\", conforms even to the reality of poetic creation, bending the verse to a perfect Cartesianism in perpetual flux, Romão opts for the latitude of a composition incompatible with the milking of the contemporary like, where the effervescent teenager of the nineties gaming machine coexists with packs of fierce autists and the nightmare of a radical and irremediable tropicalization that ends up transforming the rectangle into a lesbian seaside resort and every Portuguese person into a curator of other people's memories.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eValério Romão \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in 1974, in France, but lived much of his life in Portugal. He is a writer, translator, and playwright, recognized for his intense approach and exploration of the darkest areas of the human experience. Author of novels, plays, and short stories. Among his most well-known books are \u003cem\u003eAutism\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eO da Joana\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCair para Dentro\u003c\/em\u003e. Valério Romão remains alive and active in the Portuguese literary scene, being considered one of the most singular voices in contemporary fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Abysmo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52064909525258,"sku":null,"price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/maisumadesilusao.jpg?v=1762169144","url":"https:\/\/www.malditalivraria.com\/en\/products\/mais-uma-desilusao","provider":"Maldita Livraria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}