Sérgio Sant’Anna

Tigrela and Other Stories); Sérgio Sant’Anna, a novelist whose stories in O concerto de João Gilberto no Rio de Janeiro (1982; “João Gilberto’s Concert in Rio de Janeiro”), all executed with sardonic humour, focus upon innovative art, sociopolitical criticism, and marginalized individuals; and Rubem Fonseca, whose incisively graphic crime…

…female loneliness and isolation, while Sant’Anna’s view on the integration of art and life appeared in Um crime delicado (1997; “A Delicate Crime”).