Books by Rubem Fonseca and Complete Book Reviews
Rubem Fonseca, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-525-24872-9
The lowly toad ( Bufo marinus , in the Latin) is the leitmotif loosely holding together this second work by Brazilian writer Fonseca ( High Art ) to be translated into English. If hodgepodge were a literary genre, it might best describe the...
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Rubem Fonseca, Author, Clifford E. Landers, Translator , trans. from the Portuguese by Clifford Landers. Open Letter $15.95 (166p) ISBN 978-1-934824-02-3
The stories in Fonseca's collection, the first translated into English, are beautifully grim and superbly clever as stand-alone reading. Together, though, these tales of very bad people doing very bad things can be fatiguing. From the first...
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Rubem Fonseca, Author, Clifford E. Landers, Translator Ecco Press $24 (312p) ISBN 978-0-88001-583-7
The unnamed narrator of this playful, witty Brazilian bestseller is a movie director on a mission: to find a manuscript of the great Isaac Babel's only novel. The director is grieving over his dead wife in late-1980s Rio when an obese carnival...
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