O caso Morel / El caso Morel
Novel , 1973
Nova Fronteira
Pages: 200
The first novel by the master of Brazilian noir genre. A terrifyingly sordid thriller.
Photographer Paul Morel receives an unexpected visitor in his prison cell. Commissioner Matos and his friend Vilela, a famous novelist, are willing to do anything to find out everything about the crime Morel is accused of. Apparently, the latter is writing an autobiography in which he intends to confess acts that not even in his most twisted nightmares Matos could imagine. But where is the frontier between fiction and reality in such an extreme, delirious text? Sex, violence, depravity and abuse... everything finds a place in Morel’s story. Or perhaps his life was actually like that?
Rubem Fonseca, one of the most international Brazilian writers of all time, tears the reader’s soul to shreds in a novel loaded down with the worst side of the human condition. Using stark, direct language, and in a style that is both thoughtful and disturbing, this is undoubtedly one of the most controversial literary works in its genre.