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The Incredible Brazilian #3
The Incredible Brazilian: A Different World
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322 pages, Paperback
First published January 31, 1985
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Zulfikar Ghose
43 books36 followersZulfikar Ghose (born in Sialkot, India (now Pakistan) on March 13, 1935) is a novelist, poet and essayist. A native of Pakistan who has long lived in Texas, he writes in the surrealist mode of much Latin American fiction, blending fantasy and harsh realism.
He became a close friend of British experimental writer B. S. Johnson, with whom he collaborated on several projects, and of Anthony Smith. The three writers met when they served as joint editors of an annual anthology of student poets called Universities' Poetry. Ghose also met English poet Ted Hughes and his wife, the American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, and American author Janet Burroway, with whom he occasionally collaborated.
While teaching and writing in London from 1963–1969, Ghose also free-lanced as a sports journalist, reporting on cricket for The Observer newspaper. Two collections of his poetry were published, The Loss of India (1964) and Jets From Orange (1967), along with an autobiography called Confessions of a Native-Alien (1965) and his first two novels, The Contradictions (1966) and The Murder of Aziz Khan (1969). The Contradictions explores differences between Western and Eastern attitudes and ways of life.
He became a close friend of British experimental writer B. S. Johnson, with whom he collaborated on several projects, and of Anthony Smith. The three writers met when they served as joint editors of an annual anthology of student poets called Universities' Poetry. Ghose also met English poet Ted Hughes and his wife, the American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, and American author Janet Burroway, with whom he occasionally collaborated.
While teaching and writing in London from 1963–1969, Ghose also free-lanced as a sports journalist, reporting on cricket for The Observer newspaper. Two collections of his poetry were published, The Loss of India (1964) and Jets From Orange (1967), along with an autobiography called Confessions of a Native-Alien (1965) and his first two novels, The Contradictions (1966) and The Murder of Aziz Khan (1969). The Contradictions explores differences between Western and Eastern attitudes and ways of life.
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December 29, 2024
The last of Ghose’s sublime Incredible Brazilian trilogy, A Different World sees the third incarnation of the series’ antihero Gregório Peixoto da Silva Xavier cutting free from the bourgeois world of his landowning parents to become a reluctant revolutionary. The opening third exploring Gregorio’s childhood and sexual awakening as the workers begin plotting their way out of serfdom is the most entertaining section of the novel, while the remaining parts struggle through unfocused and overwritten passages as the narrator falls under the sway of a charismatic left-wing leader and embroils himself in murky political antics. These political and philosophical ruminations are some of the dullest and most muddled parts of the novel, out of keeping with the propulsive and picaresque approach of the preceding two works. An anticlimactic resolution to the trilogy, A Different World nevertheless completes the epic cycle, spanning from the 1600s to the 1960s, with panache. This trilogy is essential reading for fans of essential trilogies or trilogies in ipsis.
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