Philip Graham
Department of English
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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“Meanwhile, I've reread Gonçalo M. Tavares's Mister Valery, one of a number of short books that make up the Portuguese author's growing fictional "neighborhood." Each book - in deft translations by Roopanjali Roy - features very short stories by or about characters whose personalities are based on the work of famous writers: Mr. Brecht, Mr. Henri, Mr. Calvino, Mr. Valéry, etc. (Tavares even provides a little street map with the locations of his characters). Tavares's work will first appear in the United States this fall in the magazines Hunger Mountain and Ninth Letter.” |
E.J. Van Lanen
Senior Editor - Open Letter Books
University of Rochester NY |
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“Gonçalo Tavares has been awarded the Portugal Telecom prize for his novel Jerusalem. We found out about Tavares at Frankfurt and got our hands on a few of his ‘Neighborhood’ books - some of which have been translated into English by TransBooks in India.
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They’re incredible little books, and the stories remind me a lot of Augosto Monterroso’s. For the most part the stories are very short—some are only a few lines long - and fable-like, and some of the stories feature the writer/artist as main characters.
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