Abstract
Luiz Ruffato is one of the most prominent writers in contemporary Brazilian literature. Born in 1961 in Cataguases, Minas Gerais, Ruffato recently gained significant exposure through his opening speech at the Frankfurt International Book Fair in October of 2013, the focus of which was on Brazilian literature.
Highlights
During our meeting, which took place in August of 2013, I spoke with Ruffato about a range of topics, from regionalism to transnationalism, his decision to participate in the Amores Expressos collection and on Estive em Lisboa e lembrei de você
I was startled because I discovered that the universe that I came from was not portrayed in Brazilian literature
Where does Estive em Lisboa e lembrei de você fit into my work at large and what I wanted to achieve? This is a question that I have been asking since the beginning: how do I write about the lower middle class without relying on the bourgeois form of the novel? The bourgeois novel is always related to identity, it seeks to describe an identity in order to describe a biography
Summary
During our meeting, which took place in August of 2013, I spoke with Ruffato about a range of topics, from regionalism to transnationalism, his decision to participate in the Amores Expressos collection and on Estive em Lisboa e lembrei de você. Luiz Ruffato is one of the most prominent writers in contemporary Brazilian literature. Our dialogue included discussions on migration, contemporary literature, language use, and the construction and appropriation of space within the fluid terrain of contemporary Brazil.1
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