The Celebration, 1975, Ivan Ângelo. Translation by Thomas Colchie. Avon Bard (1982). No cover designer or artist credited. 223 pages.
From Theodore McDermott’s review of The Celebration in Context:
You can see something of Borges in The Celebration: in the way that the central event of the book—the event that gives it its title—is absent from its pages. You can see something of Cortázar in the way the chronology coils around and crosses over itself. You can see something of Nabokov in the fictional annotations that retell the story from an entirely new vantage, implying an endless number of other versions as yet untold. You can see something of Barth in the stylistic variations. You can see something of Machado de Assis, Osman Lins, and Ignacio Loyola Brandao in the peculiarly Brazilian integration of remarkable formal innovation and social and political engagement.You can see all of this, but what’s most apparent, and most important, is that Ângelo has written a book unlike any other.
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