Dec_2023
A fauna e a espuma is an experimental novel mixing fables, essays, autofiction and theoryfiction to tell a simple story about the death of a father. Influenced by fictionists like Piglia and Carson but also by philosophers like Sloterdijk and Durand, the book divides itself into two parts, each composed by short and varied narratives that tangle upon specific themes. In the first half, "the clear part", this theme is the sky. Its chapters explore transformations in celestial cosmologies, the reflections of a comedian on the clouds of his childhood, studies on the nature of dreams, conversations between World War II aviators, descriptions of post-apocalyptic atmospheres and speculative debates between medieval theologians, to tie together themes like memory, epiphany, and the expectation of paradise. In the second half, "the obscure part", the main theme is the concept of fall. Its chapters, now more circumscribed to the conditions of the character-author, deal with the fall of Adam, the phenomenology of the hands, the disease of a dog, suicide letters and first communions, to articulate paternal death to broader sets of meaning: language, time, crying, entropy, salvation.
"A true exemplar of a new generation of thinkers that moves smoothly between boundaries." - Reza Negarestani, philosopher and author of Cyclonopedia and Intelligence & Spirit
"His writing is characterized by an impressively broad scholarship." - David Grubbs, writer and musician-founder of bands Gastr del Sol, Squirrel Bait and Bastro
"Before all else, the lucidity of the imagination that in these intense story-essays symbolizes the world in the shape of a drop. The grandiose tradition of Borges and Calvino follows us in this fantasy metaphysics." - Eduarda Neves, curator and director of Escola Superior Artística do Porto
Fiction. 128pp.
Publisher: 7letras
Language: Portuguese
ISBN-13: 978-65-59056-74-3
Press:
Livrada, Apr 2024
Literatura e Fechadura, Jan 2024
Diário de Petrópolis, Dec 2023
Tribuna de Petrópolis, Dec 2023
Correio da Manhã, Dec 2023
Sep_2019
"If everything can be a subject for the artist, there would need to be a 'noble' moment in which the subject becomes poetry, otherwise it would all would be trivialized, and everything would just be a source of collection for the (just pseudo) poet. They will say "it's the process". But there must be, also within the process, a chaotic moment, or many chaotic moments, in which the transformation takes place and it actually moves ahead. This moment is what Rômulo Moraes seems to freeze in the poems of Casulos. It is a bit like a meditation, like standing still while it takes shape, but also like a spontaneity, writing almost without realizing it and hoping that wisdom invades the words in a hush (the crux of Twitter). However, the moment is also poisoned by Rômulo, and for the sake of the moment. Everyone knows that haemoglobins, lapis lazulis and bergamots do not inhabit the life of a young man like him, but everyone knows too that these beings are accessible, because – give the writer a moment – they appear in his horizon of alchemical research, which is immediately the horizon of memory and then, soon, that of presence. All put with tweezers, menus, and people, in this becoming. In my view, Rômulo tries to make everything inhabit a state of grace and futility of words. Nothing new, therefore, but real cocoons, nascent models now passed on." - Mario Cascardo
Poetry. 99pp.
Publisher: Kotter
Language: Portuguese
ISBN-13: 978-65-80103-47-8
Press:
Ruído Manifesto, Jul 2020
Mallarmargens, Apr 2020
Cultura930, Oct 2019
Mbenga Moçambique, Jul 2019
Jornal Entre-Rios, Sep 2019