Osman Lins (1924–1978)
Author of Avalovara
About the Author
Works by Osman Lins
La paz existe? 2 copies
Gestos, Os 2 copies
Problemas inculturais brasileiros 2 copies
Do ideal e da glória 2 copies
Guerra sem testemunhas 1 copy
Associated Works
Pět brazilských novel — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1924-07-05
- Date of death
- 1978-07-08
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Brazil
- Places of residence
- Vitoria de Santo Antao, Brazil (birth)
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (death) - Occupations
- novelist
short-story writer
playwright
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Statistics
- Works
- 19
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 269
- Popularity
- #85,899
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 41
- Languages
- 6
The narrator himself describes the novel on page 45:"At this point I conceive of something unfeasible: a work that would present itself as double, built in layers and purporting to be its own analysis. For example, as if there were no Julia Marquezim Enone or The Queen of the Prisons of Greece, as if the present piece of writing were actually the novel by that name and I myself were a fiction."
Again, on page 96: "The hybrid space, in which a fixed space and a mobile space come together, is more suggestive and intriguing than the option favoring one alternative or the other."
And, on page 149: "the nature of the artistic object, which is never a depository of meaning but rather a detonator of meanings";
And finally, on page 177: If Maria de Franca's disease (here not so much mental as verbal),"making words like before and after impenetrable, tends to dilute the book in time,the occurrence of real historical events--not in the sequence in which they would have taken place but disconnected, loose, contingent upon random encounters with outdated snatches of news."… (more)