Brazil's Fonseca claims top award at Guadalajara book fair.

[Burns, Erik]

foax:
there's a blurb in here of Fonseca by TRP. haven't seen this one before.
Wonder if it's on the English version of Fonseca's books, or what.
etb

Quail's blurbamatic compendium
(http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_blurbs.html) cites TRP
in re Fonseca as per below, but the quote is different. Trs: "Each of his
books is not just a worthwhile trip: it's a somehow essential trip." (I use
"trip" for obvious reasons; "viagem" could just as easily be "journey".)

A confraria dos espadas
Rubem Fonseca
(2000)


According to the Pynchon Files, this Portuguese novel earned a blurb from
the Man.

  Pynchon writes: "Cada livro dele não é só uma viagem que vale a pena: é
uma viagem de algum modo necessária."

New cite follows:

> Brazil's Fonseca claims top award at Guadalajara book fair.
> PAISE00020031203dzc30000h
> By JOSE ANDRES ROJO.
> 244 Words
> 03 December 2003
> El Pais - English Edition
> El País - All Editions
> CTGPAS
> 5
> English
> (c) 2003 EL PAIS, SL/IHT.
>
> Two giants of Latin American literature conjoined last week at the
Guadalajara book fair as Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez handed over
this year's Juan Rulfo prize to the 78-year-old Brazilian Rubem Fonseca.
>
> Treated to a rapturous ovation, Fonseca, who refuses to give interviews to
the press, gave a brief speech about the inspiration he had received from
Rulfo's ground-breaking novel from the 1950s, Pedro Paramo. It was,
inevitably, left to others to pay tribute to the Brazilian writer, who has
described himself as "consumed by the present" - a violent, unstable, yet
humorous world. "I never thought I would be asked one day to kill a person,
but that is what happened yesterday," begins his novel The Hole in the Wall.
>
> US novelist Thomas Pynchon counts himself among Fonseca's admirers, and
has written that "the best thing in Fonseca's work is that you don't know
where it is heading. Every time I start one of his books, it's as if the
telephone rings at midnight: 'Hello, it's me. You are not going to believe
what's happening.'"
>
> Fonseca was born to Portuguese parents in the state of Minas Gerais in
1925, but moved to Rio de Janeiro at an early age. After graduating in
business studies, he worked in a host of different jobs, including one in a
police station.

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