Face (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Cecile Pineda
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: Brazil
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Doctors, 1980’s, Surgery or surgeons, Barbershops or barbers, Brazil or Brazilians, Masks, South America or South Americans, Latin America or Latin Americans, Face or faces
- Locales: Brazil
Characters Discussed
Helio Cara, the protagonist and central character of the novel. Helio starts out in the novel as a barber in the huge Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. By no means a successful or extraordinarily happy man, Helio nevertheless has the rudiments of life: a job, a girlfriend, and basic acceptance by others. All of this is jeopardized when he falls off a cliff and severely damages his face. Forced to wear a white handkerchief over his face to conceal injuries that other people find repulsive, Helio at first tries to go on with his life as if nothing had...
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