Author Description

"The novel Antiterapias gives us a glimpse of the Brazilian Jewish community in the twenty-first century. It narrates the journey of a young boy from a small and conservative Jewish community, in his search for a place in contemporary Brazil. In a tone often poetic and prophetic, and sometimes vulgar and profane, the narrator describes vivid memories and lessons originating from family, love, and social relationships in high school. He narrates his life, connections, and missed connections with irony, humor, as well as well-crafted and deliberate literary plagiarism. Proust, Freud, Tolstoy, Machado de Assis and Pessoa are some of the apparitions and literary muses that trace the path for the narrator's life"--Harvard University Department of Romance Languages & Literatures website, viewed September 22, 2021.