WHAT ARE YOU READING? O QUE VOCÊ ESTÁ LENDO?

I have the habit to read more than two book in the same time. Currently I have been reading "Varieties of Disturbance: Stories", by Lydia Davis and also "Too much happiness: stories", by Alice Munro. I think that Munro will be my new favourite author and I just buy another book of her, "Runaway".
Eu tenho o hábito de ler mais de dois livros ao mesmo tempo. Agora estou lendo "Tipos de Perturbação: Ficções", de Lydia Davis e também "Felicidade Demais", de Alice Munro, que penso que será minha nova autora favorita. Acabo de comprar outro livro seu, "Fugitiva".

I have a good news: I just found the story "Free Radicals" from the book "To much happiness: stories", fully published on the "The New Yorker". I liked so much the story and I think you would like reading it too! And here another stories by Alice Munro.


Alice Ann Munro (born 10 July 1931 in Wingham) is a Canadian author. The winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, she is also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize. The locus of Munro’s fiction is her native southwestern Ontario. Her "accessible, moving stories" explore human complexities in a seemingly effortless style. Munro's writing has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction." 
You can read an interview by Jeanne McCulloch, Mona Simpson in "the Paris Review".
"Too Much Happiness" "is a compelling, provocative—even daring—collection of ten superb new stories by Alice Munro.  In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in the aftermath of an unusual and humiliating seduction, reacts in a clever if less-than-admirable fashion. Other stories uncover the “deep-holes” in a marriage, the unsuspected cruelty of children, and how a boy’s disfigured face provides both the good things in his life and the bad. And in the long title story, we accompany Sophia Kovalevsky—a late-nineteenth-century Russian émigré and mathematician—on a winter journey that takes her from the Riviera, where she visits her lover, to Paris, Germany, and, Denmark, where she has a fateful meeting with a local doctor, and finally to Sweden, where she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematician." (review from Amazon)


Alice Ann Munro nasceu em 10 de julho de 1931 em Wingham, no Canadá. É autora de diversos livros de contos, traduzidos para mais de dez idiomas. Entre os numerosos prêmios literários recebidos ao longo de sua carreira, destaca-se o Man Booker Prize, em 2009.
"Felicidade demais", "reúne dez contos de Alice Munro, protagonizados por personagens femininas que vivem situações de grande sedução e violência. São mulheres de idades e ocupações diversas, mas todas elas, a certa altura da vida, deparam com acontecimentos que mudam o rumo de suas vidas. (...) Nos contos da autora, camadas narrativas se sobrepõem, o passado e a memória atuam no presente e conduzem a situações-limite. Mas mesmo quando a doença toma conta e o fim se anuncia, a promessa de felicidade, ainda que efêmera e ilusória, estará sempre no horizonte de realização." (informações do blog da Companhia das Letras). (Clicando no link você pode ler um trecho em pdf)

 

Alice Munro photo by Paul Hawthorn to syracusa.com

What are you reading, recently read, or plan to read in the future?