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excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nIn these times when television has replaced conversation, the age-old rite of narrating has assumed new importance, and the writer tends to be a narrator, telling the intended reader why he set out on one path instead of another, the obstacles he encountered, and how he finally achieved his goal. In so doing, he brings us to understand that the act of writing is an adventure.<\/p>\n
\nsynopsis<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nA kaleidoscope of contemporary ideas, A for\u00e7a da palavra<\/em> <\/strong>comprises interviews with foreign intellectuals and writers published in the major Brazilian print media. Twenty authors presented in all their originality thanks to the method of the interviewer, who starts out from a carefully organized script but allows herself to be guided by the interviewee, never forcing the conversation into a preconceived framework.<\/p>\nJacques Derrida speaks of Marx and his ghosts. Michel Serres offers an apologia for racial amalgamation. Jean-Claude Carri\u00e8re, coauthor of a book with the Dalai Lama, introduces us to Buddhism.
\nBesides philosophers and psychoanalysts, A for\u00e7a da palavra<\/em> <\/strong>highlights poets and novelists. Octavio Paz says that love is a choice of freedom; Fran\u00e7oise Sagan, that a person is free only when he desires what is attainable; and Nathalie Sarraute, a historical name of the nouveau roman<\/em>, that in literature there are no mentors.<\/p>\n
\nhistory<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nPublished by Record in 1996 and launched at the auditorium of the Folha de S. Paulo<\/em> with a debate and the participation of various journalists. The book led to the author\u2019s being invited to give addresses at numerous departments of journalism in Brazilian universities. When the book went out of print, the author prepared a revised and expanded second edition with an additional 11 interviews, conducted and published up to 2004, including one with the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre on the culture of play and two with outstanding Chinese writers: the novelist and playwright Gao Xingjian and the poet Bei Dao. The new edition has not yet appeared in print form.<\/p>\nTwo letters to the author<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\nopinion<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nBRAZIL<\/em><\/strong>
\n\u201cA for\u00e7a da palavra<\/em><\/strong> could be called \u2018The force of silence.\u2019 Because, above all, Betty knows how to listen at the right moments an apparently simple secret but one that demands perception, control, and wisdom.\u201d
\nLector<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>September 1996 <\/span><\/p>\nPORTUGAL<\/em><\/strong>
\n\u201cThe interviews are very stimulating. Brief but dense, full of reflective suggestions.\u201d
\nMaria Isabel Barreno<\/strong>, <\/em>letter,November 1996<\/span><\/p>\n
\nareas of interest<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nCommunications, Literature.<\/p>\n
\ncritical reaction<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n(see Portuguese version)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nwhere to purchase<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
A kaleidoscope of contemporary ideas, A for\u00e7a da palavra<\/em> <\/strong>comprises interviews with foreign intellectuals and writers published in the major Brazilian print media. Twenty authors presented in all their originality thanks to the method of the interviewer, who starts out from a carefully organized script but allows herself to be guided by the interviewee, never forcing the conversation into a preconceived framework.<\/p>\n Jacques Derrida speaks of Marx and his ghosts. Michel Serres offers an apologia for racial amalgamation. Jean-Claude Carri\u00e8re, coauthor of a book with the Dalai Lama, introduces us to Buddhism. Published by Record in 1996 and launched at the auditorium of the Folha de S. Paulo<\/em> with a debate and the participation of various journalists. The book led to the author\u2019s being invited to give addresses at numerous departments of journalism in Brazilian universities. When the book went out of print, the author prepared a revised and expanded second edition with an additional 11 interviews, conducted and published up to 2004, including one with the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre on the culture of play and two with outstanding Chinese writers: the novelist and playwright Gao Xingjian and the poet Bei Dao. The new edition has not yet appeared in print form.<\/p>\n Two letters to the author<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n BRAZIL<\/em><\/strong> PORTUGAL<\/em><\/strong> Communications, Literature.<\/p>\n (see Portuguese version)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nBesides philosophers and psychoanalysts, A for\u00e7a da palavra<\/em> <\/strong>highlights poets and novelists. Octavio Paz says that love is a choice of freedom; Fran\u00e7oise Sagan, that a person is free only when he desires what is attainable; and Nathalie Sarraute, a historical name of the nouveau roman<\/em>, that in literature there are no mentors.<\/p>\n
\nhistory<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nopinion<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n\u201cA for\u00e7a da palavra<\/em><\/strong> could be called \u2018The force of silence.\u2019 Because, above all, Betty knows how to listen at the right moments an apparently simple secret but one that demands perception, control, and wisdom.\u201d
\nLector<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>September 1996 <\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe interviews are very stimulating. Brief but dense, full of reflective suggestions.\u201d
\nMaria Isabel Barreno<\/strong>, <\/em>letter,November 1996<\/span><\/p>\n
\nareas of interest<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
\ncritical reaction<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nwhere to purchase<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n