The book "O Rio de Fernando Sabino", recently released by Autêntica publishing house and written by Teresa Montero, retraces the steps of writer, journalist, and editor Fernando Sabino (1923-2004) through the city of Rio de Janeiro. The work maps the places where the author from Minas Gerais moved around, worked, and socialized with his peers, showing how he made the city a path of encounters and affection.
The Elisabeth building, on Avenida Nossa Senhora de Copacabana, was Sabino's first address in Rio and his gateway to the city's cultural life. Born in Belo Horizonte, the writer moved to the then federal capital in 1944, still young and aspiring to literary glory.
It wasn't long before Sabino drew close to figures he admired and received them at his home. When the author of "O encontro marcado" threw the apartment keys from the sixth floor for guests, spiritualist sessions with Vinicius de Moraes, visits from idols like Pablo Neruda, and drums playing through the night could happen.
The address and its stories open the route of Teresa Montero's work, which composes a portrait of the author in his spaces of predilection, revealing the intense cultural and social life that Sabino built in Rio de Janeiro.
