Nothing like a book classic to delve into another era, understand society and even the complexity of human nature. After all, who best described the hypocrisy of social relations that Machado de Assis? Why not think about freedom and free will by reading AlbeRT Camus? In the midst of contemporary conflicts, how about reading one of the greatest manifestos against the horror of war, written by Leo Tolstoy?
It’s never too late to get in touch with the great authors and classic works of world literature. And better: this week, you can do it for less! THE STUDENT GUIDE has carefully chosen seven essential books for understanding the world, which are on sale at Consumer Week.
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Blindness essay
In “Ensaio sobre a cegueira”, José Saramago proposes to us a world in which a “pandemic” of blindness has taken hold, and people are progressively no longer able to see. In this new society, in which some of those affected are admitted to mental hospitals, society needs to relearn how to live without using its eyes. Ideas such as otherness, affection, human greed and others are central to the work.
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One hundred years of Solitude
A book that is certainly among the most iconic in Latin American literature. Gabriel García Márquez consolidates himself as the great name in fantastic realism by creating the universe of Macondo, a magical city where the Buendía family lives generation after generation. The book expresses not only the identity of Latin America, but also universal human dilemmas.
One hundred years of Solitude
Great wilderness: paths
Guimarães Rosa’s most famous work is also a classic of Brazilian literature. Throughout the colossal book, of more than 500 pages, the reader is taken by the memories of the farmer and former gunman Riobaldo, who recalls his career in a non-linear narrative full of neologisms, a Guimarães trademark. A book to reflect on the journeys of life, from joys to anguish.
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War and peace
The immensity – figurative and literal – of “Guerra e Paz” is such that Companhia das Letras decided to divide it into two volumes in this box set. The books, which together total 1544 pages, follow the lives of five Russian aristocratic families between 1805 and 1820. The Napoleonic invasion is the backdrop to this kind of epic, which mixes reflections on finitude, the direction of history and conflicts of class.
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War and peace
The foreigner
In “The Stranger”, his most famous book, Nobel laureate Albert Camus proposes, above all, an existential reflection on the meaning of modern life. After murdering a man and being sentenced to death himself, the book’s protagonist begins to think about freedom and the paths his own decisions take him. It can be a good starting point to understand the “philosophy of the absurd” thought by the French-Algerian writer.
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The foreigner
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