Between one chapter and the next
Even good stories need a moment before they continue.
Setting the next page
Alexandre Vidal Porto
A middle-aged, hypochondriac womanizer in the city of São Paulo: this is Matias Grappeggia. Married to Susana for twenty-four years, he considers his life well balanced. A successful professional, he leads an enviable existence, yet harbors no ambitions for personal happiness, resigned to the unsatisfying world he has created around himself.
Sergio Y., a teenager from São Paulo, believes himself destined for unhappiness. In an attempt to change that fate, he seeks out Dr. Armando, one of the city's finest psychotherapists. This is the starting point of the journey he is about to undertake.
Constantino died yesterday morning. He is in limbo and, as he waits to discover what eternity has in store for him, he recalls important moments from the life he lived.
In Sodomita, Alexandre Vidal Porto turns his gaze to centuries past, recovering the true story of Luíz Delgado, a Portuguese viola player who arrived in Salvador in 1669, banished for the crime of sodomy.
“Sodomita is neither a period book nor simply a historical novel, because it speaks to questions that remain relevant today — tyranny, oppression, desire, hope — through a careful narrator, moved by what he sees and intent on satisfying us with fine aesthetic water.”
A middle-aged man tells a friend about a love affair he had in his youth with a married man, when he was working as a diplomat in New York.