Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga? A B-Novel |
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| Author:
| Abreu, Caio Fernando |
| Translator:
| Frizzi, Adria |
| Afterword by:
| Frizzi, Adria |
| Contribution by:
| Frizzi, Adria |
| Series title: | Texas Pan American Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-292-70500-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
| Publisher: | University of Texas Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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A forty-year-old Brazilian journalist reduced to living in a dilapidated building inhabited by a bizarre human faunafortune-tellers, transvestites, tango-loving Argentinean hustlersis called upon to track down and write the story of Dulce Veiga, a famous singer who disappeared twenty years earlier on the eve of her first big show. Thus begins a mad race through an underground, nocturnal SÃo Paulo among rock bands with eccentric names, feline reincarnations of Vita Sackville-West,...
More DescriptionA forty-year-old Brazilian journalist reduced to living in a dilapidated building inhabited by a bizarre human faunafortune-tellers, transvestites, tango-loving Argentinean hustlersis called upon to track down and write the story of Dulce Veiga, a famous singer who disappeared twenty years earlier on the eve of her first big show. Thus begins a mad race through an underground, nocturnal SÃo Paulo among rock bands with eccentric names, feline reincarnations of Vita Sackville-West, ex-revolutionaries turned junkies, gay Pietas, echoes of Afro-Brazilian religions, and intimations of AIDS . . . Constructed like a mystery, the novel unravels over a week, evoking a decadent and contaminated atmosphere in which the journalist' own search for meaning finds its expression in the elusive Dulce Veiga, who constantly appears to him as if in a dream, her arm pointing heavenward. Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga? is a descent into the underworld of contemporary megalopolises where, like the inside of a huge TV, life intermingles with bits of music, film clips, and soap opera characters in a crazy and macabre dance, moving toward a possible catharsis.