Organized by Cristina Judar and Fred Di Giacomo, "Pandemonium: nine narratives bridging São Paulo-Berlin" is a non-profit anthology that gathers tales from Brazilian contemporary writers such as Aline Bei, Cristina Judar, Jorge Ialanji Filholini and Raimundo Neto (representing São Paulo) and Carola Saavedra, Fred Di Giacomo, Alexandre Ribeiro, Karin Hueck and the German Carsten Regel, (representing Berlin).

The book, whose art direction was the responsibility of the award-winning designer Rodolfo França, reflects the times of pandemic, economic crisis and the advance of authoritarianism, highlighting the differences in the impacts felt in Brazil and Germany.

This translation was organized by american essayist and literary translator Lara Norgaard.

"I believe that our Pandemonium can be some relief for those at home "washing the cups and counting the corpses*," while the Imp rules our fate. The tales that Raimundo Neto, Aline Bei and Jorge Filholini psychographed from São Paulo are Polaroid pictures of the trance that makes the largest democracy in Latin America convulse. Your Bodies in Sight in sight is, for me, the queer Apocalypse of a John (Joan?) from the Anthropocene. Your prophecy moves through the mind of the reader, driven by your ability to create images in a Ginsberg-esque cadence. I am very happy that you have joined me in organizing this oasis, amplifying the original idea of a São Paulo - Berlin anthology, two major cities that have dealt so differently with the pandemic.
Here, those who live the Global south diaspora do not forget. My friend Alexandre Ribeiro, son of the Favela da Torre, in Diadema city, is reminded of his color every day by the German authorities. The police, which humiliates here, does not kill as they do there. Carola Saavedra, a professor and researcher at the University of Cologne, known for the breadth of her literary production, sculpted a literary bonsai that reminds me of the flash fiction that she mastered in the escritoras suicidas website. Karin Hueck stopped to observe her neighbor, trapped at home, and plunged into her grandfather's experiences as a holocaust survivor. One cannot forget that this city was the epicenter of global Nazi-fascism. You can't think that hell is a Brazilian invention. Like Karin's grandfather, the star of the local underground scene Carsten Regel was born in the German capital. His amusing and underground tale about the relaxed approach to the pandemic in Berlin reveals that the virus may not choose social class, but they who suffer most from it are still in the Global South. (... )

My dear friend Fred (... )
Jorge Filholini, through his distinct mode of constructing imagery, presents us with an apocalyptic and surrealist diary, one capable of keeping us up at night as it makes us confront that fearful and unbelievable thing which might still lurk in our laps.
In his lyrical style that aggregates seemingly irreconcilable realities, Raimundo Neto crafts a story in which the inefficient control of the pandemic, when added to the problems involving the adoption of children, represents a practically incurable wound in our country.
Aline Bei presents us with her renowned literary style, characterized by her broad and deep reach. She gives body and voice to a part of the conservative Brazilian middle class that treats the pandemic as a "minor" issue or collective illusion, and that then creates for itself new illusions and insists on spreading them as truth.
In fact, Fred, I love the "Berlin-style western of the end of time" atmosphere in your short story, a poetic and arid narrative that had me walk through landscapes, through the possibilities of (in)existence and (inter)relationships already practiced today. I reflected on the layers above and below the skins of the old man and the girl, which grow even more evident in the pandemic. (... )

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• Publication Date: November 20, 2020
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• Print Length: 67 Pages
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