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Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga? : a B-novel (Texas Pan American Series) Caio Fernando Abreu Annotated edition
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Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga? : a B-novel (Texas Pan American Series)
Caio Fernando Abreu
A forty-year-old Brazilian journalist reduced to living in a dilapidated building inhabited by a bizarre human fauna?fortune-tellers, transvestites, tango-loving Argentinean hustlers?is 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's 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.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9780292705012 |
| Publishers | University of Texas Press |
| Pages | 192 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 230 × 10 mm · 272 g |
| Language | English Portuguese |
| Contributor | Adria Frizzi |
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