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Teoria Geral do Esuecimento review Á 103 Outside seeps into Ludo's life through snippets on the radio voices from next door glimpses of someone peeing on a balcony or a man fleei. A General Theory of Oblivion relates the story of Ludo who at the beginning of Angola s civil unrest literally barricades herself into her apartment by building a wall and stays there for 30 years As well as her survival story told partly through her journal entries we also get vignettes of other players in the war These are told in a factual way similar to news reports By the end we can see how the strands weave together No ambiguity here what a relief after reading The Many prior to thisThe writing is poetic and lyrical but also manages to be concise The book has the feel of a fable with symbolic animals and portents but doesn t feel too unrealistic either The balance is perfectI very very rarely re read books but this one made me want to go back to the beginning and start again Yes I loved it that muchHighly recommended

Teoria Geral do Esuecimento review Á 103 As the country goes through various political upheavals from colony to socialist republic to civil war to peace and capitalism the world. Ludo is agoraphobic even back in Europe she was afraid of sky Even at age of seven she would carry a umbrella to school no matter what the weather And so when she finds herself alone in a continent of vast skies she doesn t know in a time of chaos Angola s independence she bricks herself into her flat and lives alone except for company of her dog who later dies and books living like a cast out on birds and animals in a small unviable hole that the world around her is oblivious of She sits in there suffering needlessly looking out with a fear that has become a habitual illusion The writing as far as her life is concerned is beautiful both the third person and first person parts My weakness my vanishing eyesight it means I stumble over letters as I read I read pages I ve read so many times before but they re different now I get things wrong as I read and in those mistakes sometimes I find incredible things that are rightIf I still had the space charcoal and available wallsI could compose a great work about forgettinga general theory of oblivionI talk to myself believing that I m talking to the sweet soul of a dog In any case these conversations do me goodShe felt as she went on burning those books after having burned all the furniture the doors the wooden floor tiles that she was losing her freedom It was as though she was incinerating the whole planet When she burned Jorge Amado she stopped being able to visit Ilh us and S o Salvador Burning Ulysses by Joyce she had lost Dublin Getting rid of Three Trapped Tigers she had incinerated old Havana She did come out towards the end pulled by cares of an orphan boy and discovers as the people coming out of closet often do that life isn t really that scary and beauty is worth the scarsIt was first written as a movie script and that might be possible flaw here Ludo s life touches lives of a few characters While chapters on these side characters draw picture of lives of Portuguese settles post independence the period of communism and afterwards and have some pretty great writing to themselves to me they were just annoying distraction from chapters on Ludo s life which are ironically much shorter and yet powerful Also Portuguese settlers is the word there are comparatively few Afro characters in the story

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Teoria Geral do Esuecimento review Á 103 Ng his pursuers  A General Theory of Oblivion is a perfectly crafted wild patchwork of a novel playing on a love of storytelling and fab. I missed this one when it was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize back in 2016 so thanks to the 21st Century Literature group for selecting it for a group read this monthThis was my fourth Agualusa book and probably the most enjoyable the rest were all 9 or 10 years ago and are not fresh in the memory but the poetry a little surrealism and the fresh perspectives on life in Angola during the conflicts before and after independence are common to all of themThe heart of this one is the story of Ludovica a Prtuguese woman who moved to Angola with her sister and her Angolan brother in law living in their spacious apartment with a roof garden in Luanda When they disappear during the upheavals that led to Angolan independence Ludo walls herself into the apartment with only a dog for company and survives there into old ageHer story is told in a mixture of prose and a little poetry and is interspersed with various seemingly unrelated stories of others caught up in the conflicts which all converge in an entertaining scene in which most of them meet towards the end of the book Ludo is redeemed by her relationship with a young street boy who has managed to climb in using scaffolding on a neighbouring buildingThe book is shorter than the page count would suggest as there are plenty of short chapters and blank pages but I suspect that anything longer might have worked less well