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Dedo Negro com Unha
Um dedo negro com unha é encontrado na pedreira do vilarejo de Baixo do Ribas. O que teria ocorrido ao ex-proprietário do anular decepado? E o que acontecerá a Evita, Lili e Adinho - os desafortunados garotos que o acharam? De fato, para descobrir aonde nos levará esta intrigante farsa, a única solução é seguir o destino apontado pelo dedo. E que circunvoluções e torções no pescoço da narrativa (e, em conseqüência, do leitor) pode aprontar um mero dedo negro com unha?
178 pages, Paperback
Published August 1, 2005
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September 13, 2011
[Dedo Negro Com Unha ("Black Finger With Fingernail") was written in Portuguese by a Brazilian author. There's currently no English translation, but, in the name of consistence and universality, I'll review it in English.]
Okay, so, uh, hey. What the fuck.
That may not be a very respectable way to begin a book review, but I can't think of anything more appropriate. Dedo Negro Com Unha is a roller-coaster ride over broken tracks crossing a surreal world that doesn't care enough about you even just to laugh at your horrified incomprehension. It's literarily subversive, narratively intoxicated, and metaphysically insane. Yep: it's that punk.
If a regular novel is built over the STURDY PILLARS of CHARACTER and STORY, Dedo Negro Com Unha is built over a bunch of haphazardly stacked crates filled with utter nonsense, arcane references, and obscure writing. Is this praise or criticism? I don't know. There's not much plot to speak of, and the little there is seems like it was made up on the spot. It's unfocused, meandering, apparently pointless, and quite sarcastic. Pellizzari gets kicks out of using shady and suspicious words and, I suspect, a few neologisms here and there – if I had stopped to check the dictionary each time I found a word I'd never seen before, this would have been a very tiresome reading. I didn't, though, and it still flowed nicely enough.
Now, should I tell you this novel is divided in three story arcs? That the first of these tells of a trio of kids who find a mutilated finger (black, with fingernail) buried in a quarry where there are no rocks? That the second tells of a murderous woman with two personalities, one of which is a monkey-like creature? That the third concerns her meeting with a bunch of bizarre characters as they head towards the village where the finger was found, now turned into a holy city governed by a dwarfish circus weightlifter with an enormous head?
I don't think I should. That would give you a wrong notion of what it is all about. Not that I know. Not that I think that anyone does.
(3.5 stars and 1 magic finger)
Okay, so, uh, hey. What the fuck.
That may not be a very respectable way to begin a book review, but I can't think of anything more appropriate. Dedo Negro Com Unha is a roller-coaster ride over broken tracks crossing a surreal world that doesn't care enough about you even just to laugh at your horrified incomprehension. It's literarily subversive, narratively intoxicated, and metaphysically insane. Yep: it's that punk.
If a regular novel is built over the STURDY PILLARS of CHARACTER and STORY, Dedo Negro Com Unha is built over a bunch of haphazardly stacked crates filled with utter nonsense, arcane references, and obscure writing. Is this praise or criticism? I don't know. There's not much plot to speak of, and the little there is seems like it was made up on the spot. It's unfocused, meandering, apparently pointless, and quite sarcastic. Pellizzari gets kicks out of using shady and suspicious words and, I suspect, a few neologisms here and there – if I had stopped to check the dictionary each time I found a word I'd never seen before, this would have been a very tiresome reading. I didn't, though, and it still flowed nicely enough.
Now, should I tell you this novel is divided in three story arcs? That the first of these tells of a trio of kids who find a mutilated finger (black, with fingernail) buried in a quarry where there are no rocks? That the second tells of a murderous woman with two personalities, one of which is a monkey-like creature? That the third concerns her meeting with a bunch of bizarre characters as they head towards the village where the finger was found, now turned into a holy city governed by a dwarfish circus weightlifter with an enormous head?
I don't think I should. That would give you a wrong notion of what it is all about. Not that I know. Not that I think that anyone does.
(3.5 stars and 1 magic finger)
July 28, 2018
Maluco, satírico, engraçado e farsante. Difícil esperar mais de um livro
December 18, 2013
Outro dos grandes.
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