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Antonio, by Beatriz Bracher, translated by Adam Morris, possesses many of the ingredients of a good novel. It is dappled with beautiful anecdotes. Its drama is oblique. Its formal conceit is elegant, and at times, Bracher writes lines of true and lasting wisdom. But vague characters, wooden prose, and forced metafictional outbursts condemn the novel to flatness. Antonio, by Beatriz Bracher, tr. Adam Morris. New Directions, 176 pp., $15.95.
Bracher is one of Brazil’s most respected living novelists. She has won several awards, including the Sao Paulo Prize, the Rio Prize, and the Clarice Lispector Prize. She came of age during the military dictatorship (1964-1985), a regime notorious for torturing dissidents, and her second novel,