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Barba Ensopada De Sangue (2012)

by Daniel Galera(Favorite Author)

4.15 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

8535921877 (ISBN13: 9788535921878)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Companhia das Letras

review 1: Blood-Drenched Beard is an eerily intense and for me, almost indecipherable and difficult to review book. In the words of the unnamed protagonist, all I really can say is “Wittgenstein.” (A teaser. If you read the book, you’ll know what I mean.) Yes, our character doesn’t have a name (at least one that we know) and the face he has is his grandfather’s. He has a rare disease where he cannot recognize faces, not even his own, but learns to compensate by memorizing other identifying characteristics of a person’s identity. At the beginning of the story, when our leading character’s father returns home and before he commits suicide, he tells his son about his grandfather, giving him a photo he can use to compare to his own face in the mirror, cautions him not to g... moreo in search of the truth surrounding his grandfather’s death, and leaves with a request to dispatch his lame dog and companion, Beta, once the suicide is complete. “Dogs relinquish a part of their instinct forever in order to live with humans, and they can never fully recover it.” Another hint: When the father tells his son to read “The South” by Jorge Luis Borges, follow his advice and read “The South.”Our protagonist pays his father no heed and along with Beta, travels to Garopaba to search for the truth about his grandfather’s death. A myth contains some truth; an idol is a lie or falsification. Is Grandfather myth or idol? We see our main character through a couple of interesting, if not interchangeable relationships, and then follow him on a final, arduous quest for answers surrounding the mystery around his grandfather. In the end, Grandfather and Grandson’s stories appear to merge.I was immersed in this story and intrigued, but I think I missed over half of it. It cries out for discussion.
review 2: Me corrijam se eu estiver errado. Penso em deixar esse livro pela metade porque parece ser só auto-exaltação por meio de um alter ego. O protagonista não tem nenhum problema interno a resolver. Ele está em Garopaba para investigar a morte do avô, mas parece não se importar com como o avô viveu e morreu. É um cara macho, forte por dentro e por fora. Tem uma certa dificuldade de se relacionar com as pessoas, mas isso não tem nada a ver com sua incapacidade de reconhecer rostos: é consequência da sua genuinidade fora de série. Os protagonistas de Até o Dia em que o Cão Morreu e Mãos de Cavalo também são caras maneiros que sabem viver. Só que o herói do primeiro, apesar de ser craque na sua rotina roquenrrol de cigarros e cerveja pela manhã, sabe que aquilo tem que mudar e tem dificuldade em fazê-lo. E o Mãos de Cavalo, protagonista do livro homônimo, o melhor que li do autor, tem uma grande contradição interna que é o foco do livro. Este livro tem uma prosa cativante, mas tem uma razão de ser? less

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