Book, Naked, in boots[LS]

In Naked, in Boots, Antonio Prata revisits the most memorable passages from his childhood. The memoirs are insights into the author's first years of life, narrated with the precision and humor that his thousands of readers have become accustomed to in Folha de S.Paulo, the newspaper in which Prata has written weekly since 2010. At 36 years old, Prata He is the most prominent chronicler of his generation and one of the greatest in the country. He wrote some catchphrases that have already become popular - such as “half intellectual, half left”, the title of his previous book and one of his most famous texts - as well as some of the most humorous passages from the global soap opera Avenida Brasil , in which he worked as a collaborator with João Emanuel Carneiro. Prata is also one of the members of the edition The best young Brazilian writers, of the English magazine Granta. The first memories in the backyard, friends in the village, vacations at the beach, parents' divorce, Halley's Comet, Bozo and TV cartoons, the first crush, sex discovered in pornographic magazines - the entire sentimental education by a middle-class São Paulo native born in the 1970s appears in Naked, with boots. What draws attention, however, is the peculiarity of the look. The texts are not memories of adults who look back and review their trajectory with nostalgia or detachment. On the contrary, the author goes back to the child's point of view, who is amazed by the world and gives it a very particular meaning - comical, mysterious, lyrical, enchanted.