A Confissão de Lúcio
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789723704
Publish date: May 2004
Publisher: Assírio & Alvin
Pages no: 142
Edition language: Portuguese
It's still raining and the local Mela Festival organised by the Multicultural Centre has been cancelled as the venue currently resembles a pond more than a park. So, I just made another mug of tea and am going back to Lucio's Confessions, which has had me glued to its pages all morning. I simp...
"Deep down, I did hate those people – the artists. That is, those false artists whose work consists of the poses they strike: saying outrageous things, cultivating complicated tastes and appetites, being artificial, irritating, [and] unbearable. People who, in fact, take from art only what is false ...
Aestheticism and decadence meet existential crises of gender, sexuality, identity, and the tenuous boundary between reality and fantasy, illusion and madness. Sá-Carneiro killed himself at age 26, and I believe this is the only one of his novels to have been translated into English. Apparently, ther...
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