Vast Emotions and Imperfect Thoughts

By Rubem Fonseca

Book Overview

Brazilian filmmaker and author Rubem Fonesca has written that highest of treats: a literary thriller that tickles both the cerebellum and the adrenaline gland. The unnamed hero of this novel is, like... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880015837
• ISBN13: 9780880015837
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Quality and unusuality = Great!

In spite of being a page-turner, this is a book of criativity and of prose art. I thank a friend of mine of telling me about this writer. Now I stopped reading useless and trashy bestsellers to read him! And, moreover, it will seem ironic, but Fonseca is a bestseller himself indeed here in Brasil, matching great critics and great public! It is considered one of his best novels, along with "August", and I really agree!The book is about a filmmaker who gets a package of a strange girl that asks to get into his apartment, because she is being chased. The guy let her enter into his apartment and place the package there and, before she scamper, she tell him not to mess with it, she will take it later, when she's safer. But it is only the starting point of the journey of the story. The guy will be involved with a carnival organizator - Negromonte -, a bisexual girl - she is his girlfriend -, a german productor who wants him to film a movie in europe, his dreams which are only with words - he doesn't see any images - and a lot more, all with realation with each other. Don't miss it! (I can't understand hhow your publishers don't have other amazing books of brasilian writers. You are just loosing so much pleasure!)

A very good work

This book is a great peace of literature. Some dialogues have focus on very interesting concepts, dealing with a lot of different points of view about cinema, literature and human behavior. It gives you the desire to learn more about the facts reported, such as the Isaak Bábel work. And also, the Rubem Fonseca's knowledge and the obvious research he made was more then vast and complete. I've read the portuguese version, but I bet the translation to English is as good as the original one.

Uno de los libros m[as emocionantes que he leido

Una novela de accion que va mas alla que cualquiera de las de su genero. Emocionante, angustiante y bien escrita. Una pieza de buena literatura.