Agosto

novel by Fonseca

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  • In Rubem Fonseca

    Agosto (1990; “August”), usually considered his best-known work, tells the story leading up to the 1954 suicide of Getúlio Vargas, the former two-time president of Brazil. O selvagem da ópera (1994; “The Savage of the Opera”) takes 19th-century Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Gomes as its…

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