Lins, Osman

Avalovara
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Difficult, yet Remarkable
  • Sensual, meticulous, erotic, with a complex plot
  • Can you imagine a fusion of Borges and Garcia Marquez?
 Avalovara
Osman Lins
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ASIN: 0394498518

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A work remarkable for both its form and execution, Avalovara belongs to the tradition of contemporary writing that Gregory Rabassa calls "the inventive novel." These novels include such works as Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch and Italo Calvino's Mr. Palomar, and are "narratives where the author produces the raw materials and hands them over for the reader to give them shape or structure and sometimes meaning."

The protagonist's courtship of three women constitutes the main plot of Avalovara. He pursues the sophisticated and inaccessible Roos across Europe; falls in love with Cecília, a carnal, compassionate hermaphrodite; and achieves a tender, erotic alliance with a woman known only by an ideogram. Reinforcing the inventive nature of Lins's masterpiece, the action develops within a rigorous, puzzlelike design--visually represented by a spiral and a five-word palindrome.

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4 out of 5 stars Difficult, yet Remarkable.......2003-11-12

The feeling that remains in any normal human being who stumbles through that passage is one of complete and utter disorientation. In fact, throughout the book, the reader is likely to feel lost more often than not. But, in a twisted sort of way, that is the whole point behind Lins' book. After all, what is life but a journey through which we know no end, no point, no destination? Instead of telling the story of Abel's three affairs in 330 pages of neatly packaged prose, complete with beginning, end, climax and character, Lins takes the reader on a journey that is much more real.
Avalovara will prove to be a colossal struggle for anybody that attempts to "understand" it as he or she is reading it. In short, those looking for plot will, much like Bono, never find what they're looking for. Instead, the beauty of the novel lies in the language. Lins' writing is rambling, Faulkneresque, stream of consciousness at some points, and brilliantly beautiful lyricism at others. At most points, it is a luscious combination of the two. "The smell of dust is dissipated by her presence or by the lukewarm afternoon air coming in through the window," Lins writes on page seven. "Our tongues repeat the game of advance and retreat. Our incisors touch at times and then our muscles retract." On page 223, he writes, "I suck in Abel's mouth, I speak in his mouth, inside his mouth, I say that I love him, with his tongue entangled in mine he says that he loves me, the word "love" rolls between our teeth." The repetition is incredibly simple, but incredibly poetic.
Love, human emotion, human attraction, sexuality: all are among the most common words and phrases in the English language, but all are utterly impossible to define in a sentence or two. They are among the most complex subjects ever studied by the minds of man. They are mysteries, enigmas, riddles. They are, much like the magic square and its accompanying spiral, puzzles for which we may never have the entire answer. Lins writes his book in such a way. Instead of getting lost in people, places, things and events, the readers is lost in a dizzying array of feelings, emotions and desires, the same way anybody involved in a love affair is lost. There are novels that require you to think, novels that require you to follow, novels that require you to decide. Lins' novel requires you to feel, and the answer behind the puzzle that adorns the first page of the novel lies in the way these characters feel - about each other, about the world, about their desire for one another.
Lins' book is not for everyone. There is no quest, no mission, no end. There is no Holden, no Demian, no George. There is, however, a brilliant trip through the minds, hearts and souls of the characters - minds, hearts and souls that take the readers into and through the very essence of human emotion. Th Nicolas de Crécy. Monographie

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Le seul reproche serait l'aspect général du livre, pour une monographie sur Nicolas De Crécy l'objet n'est pas à la hauteur de ce quil renferme. En effet le livre est de facture plutôt légère, mais les illustrations de N De Crécy sont de toute beautées!! On peut y découvrir de nombreux travaux réalisés par N De Crécy bien avant sa renomée, des planches de BD, des illustrations réalisées pendant ses études à Angoulême... L'habit ne fait pas le moine, le contenu de cette monograhie est riche en images. Pour tous les adeptes du trait De Crécy, à acheter, pour les autres un bon moyen de découvrir l'univers picturale de l'auteur, pour les fans de l'objet collector vous serez un peu déçus.

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      This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on September 22, 1995. The length of the article is 4580 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.<BR><BR><strong>Citation Details</strong>
      <strong>Title:</strong> The Head Carried in Triumph. (fiction) (excerp)
      <strong>Author:</strong> Osman Lins
      <strong>Publication:</strong> <em>The Review of Contemporary Fiction</em> (Refereed)
      <strong>Date:</strong> September 22, 1995
      <strong>Publisher:</strong> Review of Contemporary Fiction
      <strong>Volume:</strong> v15 <strong>Issue:</strong> n3 <strong>Page:</strong> p178(8)<BR><BR>Article Type: Excerpt<BR><BR>Distributed by Thomson Gale
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