Noite (novel)
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| Author(s) | Érico Veríssimo |
| Original title | Noite |
| Country | Brazil |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Genre(s) | Drama, Mystery |
| Publication date | 1954 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Noite is a novel, written by the famed Brazilian writer Érico Veríssimo in 1954.
[edit] Plot summary
In the 1950s, a man finds himself in the middle of the streets of Porto Alegre with a wallet full of money... and no memory of any past events.
He finds two "vultures of the night", enigmatic noctivague figures with a high penchant for bohemian lifestyles. The "vultures" (called The Master and The Hunchback) take the man on a surrealistic journey through the darkest places of the city, to "enjoy the night": a funeral parlor, the emergency service of a hospital, a deluxe whorehouse and a low-level working class cabaret.
At the same time, the two enigmatic figures surreptitiously try to make the man-with-no-memory assume that he committed a horrendous crime early that night, in which a woman was the subject of a brutal passion-related crime and no perpetrator was yet arrested by the police.
The book has a unique atmosphere in depicting the low-level bohemy that crowded some places in the Brazilian urban legends.
In the 1980s, Brazilian film director José Louzeiro conducted a movie loosely based on the book.
