Caio Fernando Abreu (1948-1996) was an award-winning journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and playwright who portrayed, as no other contemporary writer, the myriad contradictions of urban Brazil. His untimely death, as well as his courageous stand on AIDS and the growing popular interest in gay literature, will likely result in renewed attention to his playful yet urgent brand of postmodern writing.
Adria Frizzi is a translator and critic who teaches in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas at Austin.
Not since Alfred Appel's annotated Lolita clarified the subtle wordplay and allusions found in Nabokov's masterpiece has there been such an accessible assemblage beneath the packaging of compelling entertainment, all neatly explicated by translator Frizzi's analysis and glossary of terms.--Whitney Scott "Booklist" (2/1/2001 12:00:00 AM)
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