“A Death in Brazil”
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 05.19.04 | 12:42 AM ET
In today’s New York Times, critic Richard Eder reviews Peter Robb’s new quasi-travel memoir, “A Death in Brazil.” Eder liked the book. “‘A Death in Brazil’ is not strictly about travel,” Eder writes. “It deals with Brazil’s history, landscapes, society, culture, food and the baroque flamboyance of its political life. Think of travel as the verb-mode in which the book is written, bypassing subjunctive, conditional, indicative and imperative to get to ultra-active.” I’m not sure exactly what that last sentence means, but it sounds impressive, doesn’t it? Newsday reviewer John Freeman also recently found much to admire in “A Death in Brazil,” calling it “an intoxicating cocktail of a book.”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
