Zero (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ignáciode Loyola Brandão
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Plot: Sociopolitical surrealism
- Time of Work: The late 1960’s
- Setting: A large city in Latin America
- Principal Characters: José Gonçalves, Rosa, Attila, Gê
- Genres: Long fiction, Surrealist literature, Political fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, Power, personal or social, Revolutions, Terrorism or terrorists, Latin America or Latin Americans, Torture
- Locales: Latin America
The Novel
Zero was written in Brazil in the late 1960’s, during the first years of the repressive military regime which took power in 1964. The setting of Zero as a “Latindian American country, tomorrow,” stated on the introductory page, is a thin disguise for Loyola Brandão’s contemporary Brazil. Certain dates, historical names, geographical references, and institutional acronyms link the novel to that country, although many of the events and the atmosphere could fit several other Latin American countries ruled by authoritarian military regimes. Finished...
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