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Turbulence (Paperback, New edition)
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Turbulence (Paperback, New edition)
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Buarque, a Brazilian pop star and all-around cultural figure, has
written a Jerzy Kosinski-like nightmare novel, very short, about a
Brazilian man without qualities - a wanderer within a landscape of
paranoia, danger, social fracture, and violence. The narrator has a
rich sister living ensconced in the hills above the festering
slums, a sister who supports him but whose security is hardly more
solid than his feckless own. Awakened one morning by a menacing man
at the door to redress some strong grievance, the narrator flees
out his window and thereafter in the book is on the run, thrust
here into his sister's wealthy milieu, there into the abysmal
poverty of the amoral underclass. Maybe in Brazil the allegory has
more tang, but in English (and in Peter Bush's very British
translation) the novel seems weightless, supported mostly by the
web of jump-cuts that form Buarque's cinematic prose, a style that
goes stale after ten pages. Styrofoam existentialism. (Kirkus
Reviews)
The narrator of this tale is haunted by nostalgia for the places of
his childhood set in a city that can only be Rio de Janeiro. A
drop-out from the privileged world of luxury beach apartments and
sybaritic obsessions, he has entered the 'other' Brazil of wretched
poverty and petty crime.
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