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Brazil: A Novel
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Updike has ventured far afield from Rabbit country before, particularly in The Coup (1978), about the change of administrations in a small African nation. He's gone over the horizon again in his latest novel--and where he's gone is obvious from the title. In a sort of retelling of the Tristan and Isolde legend (the boy and girl are named Tristao and Isabel here), Updike depicts the love affair between a black teenager from the streets of Rio and a privileged young white woman raised in a luxurious apartment high above those mean streets. Updike follows Tristao and Isabel through several years and several trials and tribulations; their separate worlds continue to exert opposite influences upon them. But dipping his hand in magic realism, that by-now famous trait of Latin American literature, Updike reverses the situation--up here in the States, we'd call it an example of deus ex machina on a grand scale--producing a shaman who makes Tristao white and Isabel black. Irony of ironies, as a white man, Tristao is murdered on a Rio beach by a pack of street boys. It's an engaging love story, written in Updike's usual golden-toned style. But what is missing is the earthy heat and beat that so naturally permeate the writing of native Brazilians; Updike's novel has the feel of an outsider looking in. Nevertheless, despite the texture of "research," Brazil is far better than most fiction writers' best efforts and deserves the attention any book by Updike is bound to receive. Brad Hooper
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The indefatigable Updike only occasionally succeeds here. Tristo, a black teenager from the favela, encounters Isabel, a rich and sheltered young daughter of the elite, one afternoon on Rio's Copacabana beach--and when Isabel takes him home and gives her maidenhead to him, both kids discover a love union like that of their storied counterparts, Romeo and Juliet. With Tristo, Isabel flees Rio, ahead of her father's armed posse, and they make it as far as So Paulo. There, Isabel is wrenched away--but this is only the first of a number of forced (and false) partings, around which, together, Isabel and Tristo will turn to gold-mining, prostitution, living among jungle Indians, and finally re-civilization. Isabel will even resort to the help of magic to have Tristo returned to her, at the price of a shaman-induced change in respective skin-colors for them both--Updike's woolliest turn in a story fanciful with twists and turns, touristy aper‡us, and sexual philosophy. Like a slab of abused plywood, the novel is forever coming apart into its separate laminates. Updike at times (especially when he's trying to write suspenseful scenes, or violent ones) seems to be using the exotic foreignness of his setting as an excuse for over-vividness, somewhat like Karl May's old German romances of the American Indian. Elsewhere, more cunningly, he seems to be subverting some of Latin-American magic realism's more bloated clich‚s by overturning them into a kind of realistic-magic fiction. But, again, as in the African-based The Coup, he seems to think he needs another continent to try to tell the story of a wholly other--and maybe to tell a story, period. The Updikean intelligence and draughtsmanship and sex-awe constantly obtrude, weakening the narrative big picture, studding the book with perceptions and alertness galore but never with quite the air of exotic metaphysical enchantment the novelist seems to seek. Saul Bellow's finest book, Henderson the Rain King, is still unchallenged as the only American novel of our era to do that. (First printing of 75,000; Book-of-the-Month Dual Selection for March) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Updike is one of the best American authors ever. I like the subtle humour and the genuineness of his books.
Still, this novel is as bad as a novel can be. What a superficial way to deal with the race problem. What a predictable story. I was really bored. Ok, the turning point of the story is surprising: a shaman makes the protagonists change their colours. OUCH! Please, Mr. Updike, stick with the American middle class.
Still, this novel is as bad as a novel can be. What a superficial way to deal with the race problem. What a predictable story. I was really bored. Ok, the turning point of the story is surprising: a shaman makes the protagonists change their colours. OUCH! Please, Mr. Updike, stick with the American middle class.
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I have spent six months in the forest of brazil and reading this book I was able to remember every single feeling of that time . For everyone who plans to go to brazil this book is a must. It shows a part of this country, that most foreign people never get so see, because it has been covered very good to our eyes by wise tourist guides. They know that this depresing part of the brazilian society is less atractive to people who come to see Ipanema beach or the carneval. Updike isnt atracted by the obvious brazilian beauty, but by the strength and the honesty of the poor people.This is what makes the book so good. Whenever you exspect the protagonists to give up, they stand up again...I think I will start reading it again now!
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This book goes much further than a modern version of Tristan & Isolde. It not only beautifully tells the troubled romance between a black teenager from the favela and a rich white girl but it describes Brazil in it's various faces and contrats... The though life in the "Garimpos"(gold hunting) in the northeast of the country, the lazy and charming life of Rio de Janeiro and the stressfull São Paulo. It's a book rich in details and emotions.
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Another tremendous Updike book!
I'm not sure why other people are giving 'Brazil' only mixed reviews. I thought it was excellent; nearly as good as the 'Rabbit' series and certainly better than 'Rabbit is Rich'... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. Januar 2000 veröffentlicht
very colourful and intense
I bought this novel after seeing it mentioned in colin channer's "waiting in vain" This was a very colourful novel and I loved the way updike stuck to the theme of love... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. November 1999 veröffentlicht
the only truly disappointing Updike I've read
While he still has the beautiful and vivid descriptions that draw me back again and again, the whole book seems to be an excuse to show off Updike's research skills.
Am 1. November 1999 veröffentlicht
Updike fond the "tone"
Having read "The Centaur", "Couples" and all the "Rabbit" books. I was surprised at the change of "tone" that Updike has accomplished in... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 31. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
thinking for yourself, leads to giving yourself
This was such a great book, this was a book i originally choose from a list for my english class but it turned out to be one of my favorites of all time, the way the book traces... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
a great romance with a tragic end
Being my first exposure to John Updike, I had no previous benchmarks against which to compare. I did enjoy the book and I will read more Updike. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
A Stepping Stone to Brazilian Culture
It is an interesting book, though not one of Updike's best. It did however spark my curiosity about Brazil and eventually inspired me to delve into writers I knew nothing about --... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 31. März 1999 veröffentlicht
John Updikes most beautiful novel
After reading the first paragaph of "Brazil", I was immediately seized by the richness and color of Updike's prose. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. August 1997 von alise@auto-dev.com
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