Entusiasmo

"Final work in a trilogy that includes A via estreita (1995) and A juventude dos deuses (1996). In this age of cultural change, neither esthetic or ideological formalism nor thematic hegemony exist, which this work illustrates. Uses romantic pathos to describe the long, mythical voyage into the carioca bohemian night, sordidly treading Apolinean lines into the Bacchean abyss. Introduction by Miguel Sanches Neto is titled 'O Polo Dionisíaco.'"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.