Lopes de Barros Publishes Book
Rodrigo Lopes de Barros has a new trilingual publication, in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The publication, titled Ménage Literário/Literary Ménage/Ménage Literario, is a combination of an essay by Lopes de Barros on Braxzilian writer Jacques Fux together with a short story by Fux plus Lopes de Barros’s latest film, Literary Ménage , on DVD.
From the publisher:
“Jacques Fux’s writing is characterized by intertextuality, self-reflexiveness, and a ludic (and lucid) stance in relation to his questions about literature and life, fiction and reality. In the short story “Ménage à Trois” and the film Literary Ménage: An investigation into the Writing of Jacques Fux, directed by Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, Fux evokes or dialogues with David Foster Wallace, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Susan Sontag, Charles Baudelaire, Jacques Prévert, Fernando Pessoa, James Joyce, and possibly more writers, resignifying texts by others within his own creation. In the narrative of both works, a casual encounter in a coffee shop between a man and an unknown woman—just like the encounter described by Baudelaire in “À une passante”—gives rise to reflections by the (male) narrator about desire, pleasure, sin, religiosity, arousal, and attraction to the unattainable. By including Jacques Fux, who talks with the woman and eats a churro in Mexico, the film adopts another characteristic of his own writing: autofiction, in which Fux is both the author and a character. “Ménage à trois”? Yes, but between whom? The author and the two characters in the film by Rodrigo Lopes de Barros? Or between the narrator, the woman, and the churro, as in the short story?”