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An edition of So Many Olympic Exertions (2017)

Esforços olímpicos

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Vencer é mesmo importante? Falhar é uma falta mortal? Tais indagações atravessam este romance de estreia de Anelise Chen, uma nova e original voz na ficção contemporânea, que figurou em 2019 entre os cinco melhores livros de autores com menos de 35 anos numa seleção anual promovida pela prestigiosa National Book Foundation, nos Estados Unidos. Tudo começa quando um dos melhores amigos de faculdade de Athena (a narradora) comete suicídio. O evento transtorna sua vida a tal ponto que ela começa a se perguntar o quanto estamos presos às narrativas de vitória. Algo que lhe é especialmente caro e relevante, pois está desenvolvendo uma pesquisa na área de esporte — o que ela acreditava que a poderia salvar do cinismo. Nessa mistura de escrita personalíssima, meditação sobre perdas e ganhos e uma série quase infindável de episódios em torno da história dos esportes, Esforços olímpicos seduz pelo brilhantismo narrativo. É, além disso, uma profunda reflexão sobre não se deixar abater pelas inevitáveis derrotas propiciadas pela vida.

Publish Date
Publisher
Todavia
Language
Portuguese
Pages
256

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Cover of: Esforços olímpicos
Esforços olímpicos
Dec 02, 2019, Todavia
paperback in Portuguese
Cover of: So Many Olympic Exertions
So Many Olympic Exertions
Jun 27, 2017, Kaya Press
paperback in English

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Edition Notes

Source title: Esforcos olimpicos (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Translation Of
So Many Olympic Exertions So Many Olympic Exertions
Translated From
English

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Format
paperback
Number of pages
256

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL35692167M
ISBN 10
655114022X
ISBN 13
9786551140228

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL20210359W

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Work Description

Blending elements of memoir and sports writing, Anelise Chen's debut novel is an experimental work that perhaps most resembles what the ancient Greeks called hyponemata, or -notes to the self, - in the form of observations, reminders and self-exhortations. Taken together, these notes constitute a personal handbook on -how to live---or perhaps more urgently -why to live, - a question the narrator, graduate student Athena Chen, desperately needs answering. When Chen hears news that her brilliant friend from college has committed suicide, she is thrown into a fugue of fear and doubt. Through anecdotes and close readings of moments in the sometimes harrowing world of sports, the novel questions the validity of our current narratives of success.

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