Books by Chico Buarque
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review 1: Very Buarque and very good. Yes, at the times it is really in the key of the typical South American key of old man reminiscing of the things past "south of the equator where there is no sin". But as you go along the kernel of the story becomes more obvious, and more intimate and ...
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review 1: Book Club 1 Unrated (I recuse myself from rating this book)I understand this book, the metaphor the old gentleman is the Old Brazil of slave holders, prejudices and power of the ruling upper class and Eurocentric while his wife Matilda is the new Brazil or the masses or the "vul...
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review 1: I admire the style. He portrays an elderly, dying man who is losing control of his life (or actually lost it years ago) and desperately wants to be remembered by someone and to tell his story, which changes with each retelling. If only the protagonist had been a more likeable c...