Luiz Ruffato: O verão tardio (Late Summer)
The latest addition to my website is Luiz Ruffato's O verão tardio (Late Summer). Our hero/narrator is Oseias Moretto Nunes. Like the author, he was born in Cataguases, a small…
The latest addition to my website is Luiz Ruffato's O verão tardio (Late Summer). Our hero/narrator is Oseias Moretto Nunes. Like the author, he was born in Cataguases, a small…
The latest addition to my website is Emilio Fraia's Sevastopol (Sevastopol). This consists of three linked stories inspired by Tolstoy's Sevastopol Sketches, though only one is actually set (in part)…
The latest addition to my website is João Gilberto Noll's Harmada (Harmada). This is another strange novel from the Brazilian writer. We follow an unnamed man, a former actor, as…
I have now read twenty Brazilian novels in a row by twenty different authors. The oldest one was first published in 1902, the most recent in 2014. Six of the…
The latest addition to my website is Antônio Xerxenesky's F. It tells the story of Ana, a young Brazilian woman who travels to Los Angeles to meet her uncle, a…
The latest addition to my website is João Gilberto Noll's Hotel Atlântico (UK: Hotel Atlântico; US: Atlantic Hotel). Our nameless hero is seemingly a man whose identity is unclear and…
The latest addition to my website is Hilda Hilst's A obscena senhora D (The Obscene Madame D). Our narrator is Hillé,a sixty year old Brazilian woman. Her husband, Ehud, has…
The latest addition to my website is Ignácio de Loyola Brandão's Não verás país nenhum (And Still the Earth). This is the classic Brazilian dystopian novel, published in 1981 (when…
The latest addition to my website is Oswald de Andrade's Serafim Ponte Grande (Seraphim Grosse Pointe). This novel, published in 1933, is an avant-garde, absurdist work. De Andrade switches between…
The latest addition to my website is Moacyr Scliar's Os leopardos de Kafka (Kafka’s Leopards). This is a clever fable, whose unlikely hero, known as Mousy, is a Jewish tailor.…