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Luis Fernando Verissimo

Birth date: September 26, 1936

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Borges and the Eternal Orangutans - Luis Fernando Verissimo, Margaret Jull Costa

The Club of Angels - Luis Fernando Verissimo

The Spies - Luis Fernando Verissimo, Mar...

Historias Brasileiras De Verao (Vide Verissimo) - Luis Fernando Verissimo

A Versão Dos Afogados: Novas Comédias Da...

Banquete Com Os Deuses - Luis Fernando Verissimo

A Eterna Privação Do Zagueiro Absoluto - Luis Fernando Verissimo

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Stacia's books rated it

12 years ago

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A complete & utter delight of a book. A Borges style mystery with some Poe, Lovecraft, infinite monkeys, & surrealism thrown in. Verissimo (meaning 'true' in Portuguese) leads you through a labyrinth of mirrors, philosophy, surrealist reasoning, ancient history, & good old-fashioned noir while spinn...

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bbbart rated it

12 years ago

text The Club of Angels

This is a nice tale of gluttony and death, a parable of some sort. However, I felt that near the end, the platitudes of a detective story were becoming too apparent for what is essentially a non-detective story.Upfront, I was expecting more from this book and when I finished it I felt a bit disappoi...

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Amadan na Briona rated it

14 years ago

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Okay you guys who've been pushing all those "bizarro" novels: take your favorite bizarro author, and Jorge Luis Borges will totally drink his milkshake. Even as a fictional character.Borges wrote what's called "magical realism" nowadays, but while his fans may think "fantasy" is too undignified a la...

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gutohernandes rated it

15 years ago

text Os Espiões

I had read the first chapter in the brazilian version of GRANTA, and I was really surprised!The book starts very well, you want to know more about the drunk editor who approves books depending on how hung over he is, about the mysterious girl who writes to the editor telling her story, about the tow...

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