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The last will and testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo

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"Everyone in Cape Verde knew Senhor da Silva Araujo. Successful entrepreneur, owner of the island's first automobile, a most serious, upright, and self-made businessman, Senhor da Silva Araujo was the local success story. Born an orphan, he never married, he never splurged - one good suit was good enough for him - and he never wandered from the straight and narrow." "Or so everyone thought." "But when his 387-page Last Will and Testament is read aloud - a marathon task on a hot afternoon which exhausts reader after reader - there is shocking news, and not just for the smug nephew so certain of inheriting all of Senhor da Silva Araujo's property." "In his will, Senhor da Silva Araujo has left a memoir that is a touching web of elaborate self-deceptions. He desired so ardently to prosper, to be taken seriously, and to join (perhaps, if they would have him) the exclusive Gremio country club. But most of all, he wanted to be a good man. And yet, shady deals, twists of fate, an illegitimate child: such is the lot of poor, self-critical Senhor da Silva Araujo. A bit like Calvino's Mr. Palomar in his attention to protocol and in his terror of life's passions; a bit like Svevo's Zeno (a little pompous, a little old-fashioned, and often hapless) Senhor da Silva Araujo moves along a deliciously blurry line between farce and tragedy: a self-important buffoon becomes a fully human, even tragic, figure in the arc of this novel."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
New Directions
Language
English
Pages
152

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The last will and testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo
2004, New Directions
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
869.3/42
Library of Congress
PQ9942.9.A46 T4713 2004, PQ9942.9.A46T4713

The Physical Object

Pagination
152 p. ;
Number of pages
152

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3288656M
Internet Archive
lastwilltestamen00alme
ISBN 10
0811215652
LCCN
2004000951
OCLC/WorldCat
54356852
Library Thing
3461914
Goodreads
1200940

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