by John Updike · Seuil · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782020311915
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«Brésil» is the novel by John Updike, published by Seuil in paperback (327 pages, in French).
In the Copacabana of the 1960s, Tristão, a young Black man from the favelas of Rio, and Isabel, a young white woman from the upper bourgeoisie, fall in love. Pursued by a family curse and the hostility of her father, their love drags them to the Mato Grosso, where they face poverty, hunger, and violence without losing faith in their common destiny.
French translation of the novel «Brazil» (1994), signed by Michèle Hechter. The work reinterprets the legend of Tristan and Isolde, setting it in Brazil.
For readers of literary fiction and magical realism, with an interest in the reworking of the tragic love myth and in 20th-century Brazil.
John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career.
