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From Brazil's most distinguished and important Jewish writer comes this anthology comprised of six collections: in The Carnival of the Animals, Scliar uses political allegory to convey what was normally censored during the height of repression under Brazil's military regime. These tragicomic stories reveal Scliar's interest in issues of oppression, persecution, holocaust, mutability, and the interplay between good and evil. The Ballad of the False Messiah develops the theme of postponement in the sense that for Jews redemption is always postponed in a vain wait for the Messiah. In The Tremulous Earth Scliar explores cruelty and violence in the tenuous lives of his characters, but his experience as a medical doctor informs his compassion for human frailty. Scliar expands his use of fantasy and magical realism in The Dwarf in the Television Set in topics that range from Jewish prophets to marital revenge. The Enigmatic Eye has been described as a masterpiece evoking the enigmas of art and life, and in Van Gogh's Ear, Scliar uses dark and subtle humor in a collection of biblical parables. Here witchcraft, magic, conundrums, and labyrinths are shown to be part of everyday life. A final autobiographical piece ties the collections together in which Scliar discusses his membership in Jewish, medical, gaucho, and Brazilian "tribes."These powerful stories, individually humorous, bleak, or haunting, together bring a compelling voice of the Jewish Diaspora to the wide readership it deserves.

Viajando através do alfabeto: um olhar uses "Dicionario do Viajante Insolito" (the little yellow book) by Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar as a point of departure and aims to help students develop reading, oral, and written comprehension of Portuguese, filling a much needed void as a reader or complementary intermediate text. The book is divided into 26 units (one for each letter of the alphabet) each presenting a story or cronica Each unit has pre-reading exercises to encourage students to converse, post-reading activities to be done individually or in groups, and grammar and vocabulary review. Students are also encouraged to write about their own travel experiences, and to reflect on Brazilian culture, as well as American.

No interior do Rio Grande do Sul, na pacata familia Tratskovsky, nasce um centauro: um ser metade homem, metade cavalo. Seu nome e Guedali, quarto filho de um casal de imigrantes judeus russos. A partir desse evento fantastico, Moacyr Scliar constroi um romance que se situa entre a fabula e o realismo, evidenciando a dualidade da vida em sociedade, em que e preciso harmonizar individualismo e coletividade. A figura do centauro tambem ilustra a divisao etnica e religiosa dos judeus, um povo perseguido por sua singularidade.Guedali cresce solitario, excluido da sociedade, e o isolamento o leva a cultivar o habito da leitura. Inteligente e culto, e ele quem conduz a narrativa, feita a partir do dia de seu 38 aniversario, comemorado entre amigos num restaurante de Sao Paulo.O centauro rememora sua vida desde o nascimento em Quatro Irmaos, passando pela juventude em Porto Alegre, onde se casa com Tita - tambem centaura -, ate chegar ao Marrocos, onde o casal vai tentar um cirurgia que os transforme em pessoas normais.Depois de inumeros percalcos, Guedali acaba voltando para Sao Paulo e o desenlace desconcertante de suas lembrancas completa com profundidade essa narrativa provocadora.