Victor Heringer collection
The protagonist of o amor dos homens avulsos [The Love of Singular Men] narrates derisively his youth in an imaginary suburb of Rio de Janeiro in the late 1970s, when a boy sponsored by his father came to live in his house. The boy became his first love and the relationship was tragically interrupted in a episode of aggression. The kitsch pattern created for the cover looks happy and harmless. It seeks to express the ironic and soft tone of the text. The toys of the image acting as armed enemies for a duel, however, leave clues about the past which haunts the narrator. the publisher liked the graphic project and it was adopted for the author’s next releases.
the cover of Glória [glory], with its print of clown head trash cans, represents the story of an idiosyncratic humorous family, whose members communicate with jokes, asides, and mocking dialogues. The covers of Vida desinteressante [Uninteresting Life] and Não sou poeta [I’m No Poet] also bring back representative images for each book.
Companhia das Letras, 2016
14 × 21 cm
