Avalovara (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Osman Lins
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Existentialism
- Time of Work: 200 , 1908-1940, and 1938-1970
- Setting: Pompeii; France; the Netherlands; Italy; Germany; England; and São Paulo, Recife, and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Genres: Long fiction, Existential literature
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, France or French people, Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, England or English people, Brazil or Brazilians, Mysticism, Italy or Italians, Clocks or watches, Germany or German people, Greek or Roman times, Netherlands or Dutch people, Space and time
- Locales: France, England, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Pompeii, São Paulo, Brazil
Characters Discussed
Abel (ah-BEHL), a writer from Northeastern Brazil, where he was born in 1935. He is a student in Paris at the age of twenty-seven, then a cashier at the Brazilian Fiscal Commission in Recife. He makes love with three women at different times in his life. He is married but separated from a woman who kills herself. He is murdered by Hayano.
Anneliese Roos (Rose), his German lover in Paris, where she has been since 1951, though she has worked as a receptionist in Amsterdam. She leaves Abel for her husband, who is in a Lausanne sanatorium.
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