Corpo presente
J.P. Cuenca
NOVEL | 2003/2013 | 140 pages
João Paulo Cuenca’s first novel, Corpo Presente [Body Present] is one man’s radical descent into his own obsessions. The narrator goes through days, streets, and women in search of a lost or impossible love affair, a Carmen who does not come from an opera or from fiction, but from dirty, seductive Copacabana, a claustrophobic setting.
Swallowed up by the night, dazzled by the sun, the main character lives in a tense and continuous present, looking for feelings that have been lost forever in a world that has become too cynical, too violent, too sexualized. An idealist in his own way, he searches for purity by dirtying himself in the precarious moments that life presents him with. Like the prime numbers that are set above each fragment of text, the characters of Corpo Presente are divisible only by themselves.
RIGHTS: portuguese (brazil) PLANETA (2003) / COMPANHIA DAS LETRAS (2013) | spanish (argentina) DAKOTA I spanish (venezuela, colombia, chile) LIBROS DEL FUEGO | swedish TRANAN
“I read Body Present in one sitting. I was mesmerised by the maturity of the writing. It has been some time since I was last impressed so much by a narrative. It is a great book.”
BY J.P. CUENCA:
Descobri que estava morto
NOVEL, 2016
A última madrugada
ESSAYS, 2012
O único final feliz para a história de amor é um acidente
NOVEL, 2010
O dia Mastroianni
NOVEL, 2007
Corpo presente
NOVEL, 2003