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Bones and the dog gone mystery
While looking for his lost magnifying glass in the park, young Detective Jeffrey Bones and his grandfather discover that Curly the detective dog is missing, too, and start tracking down clues.
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The impossible ‘mimesis’
Although the early poems and novels by Carlos de Oliveira can be viewed as works of Portuguese ‘neo-realism’ (a trend that spans from the 1940s to the 1960s),² his literary production as a whole still remains one of the most difficult to place among the canons of a literary school. His first four novels –Casa na Duna(1943),Alcateia(1944),Pequenos Burgueses(1948), andUma Abelha na Chuva(1953) – although ‘neo-realistic’ when first published, underwent (with the exception ofAlcateia) extensive revisions and transformations. In fact, what started as a series of minor stylistic modifications
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George Perec’s Un Cabinet d’amateur
George Perec’s last novel,Un Cabinet d’amateur,¹ published in 1979, represents an effort to climb out from under the shadow of his 1978 masterwork,La Vie mode d’emploi.In a June, 1981, interview, Perec refers to the obsessive weight ofLa Vie:“J’ai du mal á m’en sortir. C’est d’ailleurs la raison pour laquelle je n’ai pratiquement rien écrit depuis deux ans.” Addressing directly the relationship between his last two novels, he adds, “J’ai écritUn Cabinet d’amateur,récit que j’ai publié aprésLa Vie mode d’emploi.C’est un tableau qui représente une collection de tableaux et chaque tableau est
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