Luis Fernando Verissimo: Difference between revisions

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Since then, he has published 40 books of short stories and newspaper columns, 7 novels and 15 comic books. In the meantime, he also plays the saxophone in Jazz 6, [[Non-Indicative Name|a sextet of five players]]. His father Erico is a noted writer.

* Ed Mort - a satire on noir detective stories, set on Rio de Janeiro.

 

* [[Arc Number]]: every single time he needs a random number, he uses either 17 or 117. Every. Single. Time. It was even discussed in a newspaper column of his, in the late 1990's.

* [[Author Appeal]]: Talking about his soccer team Internacional or his favoured political party, PT.

* [[Running Gag]]: a lot, really, a lot, thanks to the newspaper-column thing.

 

* In the detective novel "Borges And The Eternal Orangutans", the [[Unreliable Narrator]] is the single eye witness to a highly symbolism-heavy crime scene that is quickly messed up. The body is was a V position, close to a mirror, making a sign, but he can't remember exactly what was the sign it formed (and somehow this is significant for solving the crime). The chapters are properly named X, O, W, M and <>.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: In the same novel, there's a detective whose name is Cuervo (spanish for crow), who's also a specialist in [[Edgar Allan Poe|Poe]]'s work. A friend of his (Borges) jokes that Cuervo has the "privileged point of view of an insider".