Images of Joyful Melancholy

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Synopsis: South America is not a purely happy experience, at least for those who truly intend to be here: the day never ceases to tell us tragedies, defeats, marks of unhealable absences. The dilemma, however, is that this discourse is never monotonous, but emerges through terrifying beauty, unprecedented landscapes, rare and affectionate encounters. What is the cost of what this continent tells us?

The result of months of travel through six countries, Imagens da alegre melancolia (Images of Joyful Melancholy), not by chance, embodies paradox in its very title. We are talking about places that open up, times that intertwine, people who, together, are not their simple sum. Therefore, in a collection of brief accounts, we have here a work that aims to look at a continent from what it can have best: its contradiction.

In these texts, it is known that it is in football that this ambivalence manifests itself most naturally – as can be seen every day, in every city. The eternal reversibility between past and future, winners and losers seems to testify to what made this game so popular and so uniquely South American: it is a moment of truth about what makes us want to give up and, at the same time, be sure that we must continue.

1st Edition
198 pages