Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga?

by Abreu, Caio Fernando; Frizzi, Adria

• ISBN13: 9780292705005
• ISBN10: 029270500X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

A forty-year-old Brazilian journalist reduced to living in a dilapidated building inhabited by a bizarre human fauna--fortune-tellers, transvestites, tango-loving Argentinean hustlers--is called upon to track down and write the story of Dulce Veiga, a famous singer who disappeared twenty years earlier on the eve of her first big show. Thus begins a mad race through an underground, nocturnal São Paulo among rock bands with eccentric names, feline reincarnations of Vita Sackville-West, ex-revolutionaries turned junkies, gay Pietas, echoes of Afro-Brazilian religions, and intimations of AIDS . . .Constructed like a mystery, the novel unravels over a week, evoking a decadent and contaminated atmosphere in which the journalist' own search for meaning finds its expression in the elusive Dulce Veiga, who constantly appears to him as if in a dream, her arm pointing heavenward. Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga? is a descent into the underworld of contemporary megalopolises where, like the inside of a huge TV, life intermingles with bits of music, film clips, and soap opera characters in a crazy and macabre dance, moving toward a possible catharsis.

Table of Contents

Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga?	1	(187)
Afterword	187	(12)
Glossary	199