THE LAST SONGS OF AUTUMN - The Shadowy Story of the Mysterious Count of Lautréamont

RUY CÂMARA

Amazon

2010

494 páginas

16h 28m

ISBN-16: 13:9781439259238

The novel follows the story of a young writer whose mother commits suicide when he was a two-year old infant. Due to wars and diseases in Latin America he’s sent over to France by his father. There he spends most of his teen years as a prisoner in a boarding school. Orphaned, depressive, toying with the idea of suicide to break free from the establishment, at the tender age of 18 he leaves school, shuts himself away from his father and writes a book that later on is universally acclaimed. Despite his loneliness and a feeling of forlornness and his hatred towards the world he pines for affection. His hatred is far from genuine. When he is 24 the Franco Prussian war breaks out, and his father and financial backer goes bankrupt, causing the young man’s free flow of cash to stop. Now in the throes of depression, amidst cadavers in the streets of Paris, he tries to live in his private bubble of leisure, writing what he considered literature as a refuge from his pains, and fighting his own war against suicide. Will he survive? Will he end his own life?

THE LAST SONGS OF AUTUMN is a novel populated by troubled, conflicted, and all-to-human characters. Author Câmara has written a literary masterpiece that speaks to an international audience about the best and the worst in human nature. Mixing a fine balance between literature, history, and human drama, Ruy Câmara offers up a wholly original and breathtaking story that will please lovers of Universal literature, as well as readers of historical and epic, or saga fiction. Written in poetic, visual, and mesmerizing prose, readers will find much that will captivate, titillate, and invigorate the imagination. Author Câmara has written a novel that transcends geography to embrace universal human truths. This is a must read for universal literature buffs, or for anyone who loves a great story well told. (Amazon.com - USA and UK)

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THE LAST SONGS OF AUTUMN is a novel populated by troubled, conflicted, and all-to-human characters. Author Câmara has written a literary masterpiece that speaks to an international audience about the best and the worst in human nature. Mixing a fine balance between literature, history, and human drama, Ruy Câmara offers up a wholly original and breathtaking story that will please lovers of Universal literature, as well as readers of historical and epic, or saga fiction. Written in poetic, visual, and mesmerizing prose, readers will find much that will captivate, titillate, and invigorate the imagination. Author Câmara has written a novel that transcends geography to embrace universal human truths. This is a must read for universal literature buffs, or for anyone who loves a great story well told. (Amazon.com - USA end UK)

After achieving success in Brazil, Spain, Romania, and Spanish-speaking Latin America, Câmara’s debut novel is finding new venues of publication and winning over readers in more than thirty countries, and is becoming recognized as a masterpiece of contemporary literature.

THE LAST SONGS OF AUTUMN, his first novel, was a first Finalist for the Jabuti Prize of the Brazilian Book Chamber in 2004; was awarded the Fiction Prize by the Brazilian Academy of Letters as the Best Novel of 2004 and Prize for Translation 2009, by Writers' Association of Bucharest.

The Last Songs of Autumn can already be considered as one of the leading novels to have appeared in this new millennium. Here is an extraordinarily well-written book, esthetically perfect, which can be appreciated and understood by all generations. (Continente Magazine)

It is a monumental novel, frightening and moving, which should be read and reread with care. (Ziarul Financial Magazine)