"Life As It Is"
short stories by Nelson Rodrigues
translated by Alex Ladd
The Arts Fuse review
Still relatively unknown in the United States, Nelson Rodrigues (1912 -1980) is considered by many to be Brazil's greatest playwright. He wrote seventeen full-length plays, as well as movie scripts, soap operas and novels. The fifty-eight stories in this collection are gathered from his newspaper column, A Vida Como Ela É (Life As It Is). Written in the 1950s, these stories have since been republished numerous times in Brazil, where they have been adapted for theater, television and cinema.
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