Inventário do ir-remediável

"Distinguished author, aware of approaching death, presents second edition of prize-winning collection. Theme is traumatic military period (1964-84); and style is allegorical, used to evade censorship. A writer's writer, author was 21 when he first published Inventário do irremediável (original title, opposed to new, 'avoidable voyage')"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.