Description
A disgraced, unemployed poet awakens in a strange new life after being abruptly removed from jail and delivered to a secluded countryside manor where his every need is met—on one condition: he must write poetry. As the household’s enigmatic figures—Kurt and Otávio—circle around him, and the alluring maid Amália and her ailing charge, Gerda, complicate his sense of reality, the story turns into a tense, disorienting puzzle about control, consent, and the stories people tell to survive. In João Gilberto Noll’s distinctive postmodern style, time feels unstable and cause-and-effect slips away, echoing the unsettling logic of dream and the uncanny surfaces of modern life. Set against the backdrop of Brazil’s transition from dictatorship to democracy, the novel explores identity, moral ambiguity, and the unsettling possibility that freedom can arrive with invisible strings attached.
Available Editions
paperback
Two Lines Press
Published Jan 1, 2016
120 pages
ISBN: 9781931883511
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Details
First Published
2016
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Quiet Creature on the Corner by João Gilberto Noll.