Anonymous celebrity
By: Ignácio de Loyola Brandão ; translated by Nelson H. Vieira.
Contributors: Vieira, Nelson.
Edition: 1st English translation.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Champaign, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9781564784322
Subjects: Fame -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Work titles: Anônimo célebre.
Description: "What if a man were so shallow that he couldn't believe his life had meaning unless he was loved and desired by millions of people? What if everything he learned from his television, from the movies, from what he heard on the radio, was treated as an incontrovertible truth? And what, then, if this man was amoral, cunning, and willing to lie, seduce, and kill to save himself from anonymity? With an army of consultants, a library of "how-to" manuals, and an endless variety of product placements at his behest. The hero of Anonymous Celebrity sets out to become king of his own little world - which unfortunately turns out to be the same one the rest of us live in.

Equal parts Nabokov, All About Eve, and Big Brother, this is a bawdy, irreverent indictment of our self-absorbed culture of celebrity. Where to be anything less than famous means being something less than human."--Jacket.