What is mine

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Sinopse

In What Is Mine, sociologist José Henrique Bortoluci uses interviews with his father, Didi, to retrace the recent history of Brazil and of his family. From the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s, Didi’s work as a truck driver took him away from home for long stretches at a time as he crisscrossed the country and participated in huge infrastructure projects including the Trans-Amazonian Highway, a scheme spearheaded by the military dictatorship of the time, undertaken through brutal deforestation. An observer of history, Didi also recounts the toll his work has taken on his health, from a heart attack in middle age to the cancer that defines his retirement. Bortoluci weaves the history of a nation with that of a man, uncovering parallels between cancer and capitalism – both sustained by expansion, both embodiments of ‘the gospel of growth at any cost’ – and traces the distance that class has placed between him and his father. Influenced by authors such as Annie Ernaux and Svetlana Alexievich, What Is Mine is a moving, thought-provoking and brilliantly constructed examination of the scars we carry, as people and as countries.

Participantes

Autor: Jose Henrique Bortoluci

Tradutor: Rahul Bery

Autor

JOSE HENRIQUE BORTOLUCI

José Henrique Bortoluci, nasceu em Jaú, São Paulo, em 1984. É doutor em sociologia pela Universidade de Michigan e desde 2015 leciona na Fundação Getúlio Vargas de São Paulo. Seu primeiro livro, O que é meu, publicado em 2023 pela Editora Fósforo, já teve seus direitos vendidos para dez editoras estrangeiras.