Whatever happened to Dulce Veiga?
Subtitle: a B-novel
By: by Caio Fernando Abreu ; translated from the Portuguese with an afterword and glossary by Adria Frizzi
Contributors: Frizzi, Adria
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Texas Pan American series; Texas Pan American series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780292705005; 9780292705012
Subjects: Gay journalists; Missing persons; Fiction
Work titles: Onde andará Dulce Veiga?
Description: "A forty-year-old Brazilian journalist reduced to living in a dilapidated building inhabited by a bizarre human fauna - fortune-tellers, transvestites, tango-loving Argentinean hustlers - is called upon to track down and write the story of Dulce Veiga, a famous singer who disappeared twenty years earlier on the eve of her first big show.

Thus begins a mad race through an underground, nocturnal Sao Paulo among rock bands with eccentric names, feline reincarnations of Vita Sackville-West, ex-revolutionaries turned junkies, gay Pietas, echoes of Afro-Brazilian religions, and intimations of AIDS . . . Constructed like a mystery, the novel unravels over a week, evoking a decadent and contaminated atmosphere in which the journalist's own search for meaning finds its expression in the elusive Dulce Veiga, who constantly appears to him as if in a dream, her arm pointing heavenward.

Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga? is a descent into the underworld of contemporary megalopolises where, like the inside of a huge TV, life intermingles with bits of music, film clips, and soap opera characters in a crazy and macabre dance, moving toward a possible catharsis."--BOOK JACKET.