{"id":230,"date":"2012-12-16T22:09:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T04:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/?p=230"},"modified":"2012-12-16T22:17:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T04:17:06","slug":"the-spies-by-luis-fernando-verissimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/2012\/12\/16\/the-spies-by-luis-fernando-verissimo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spies by Luis Fernando Verissimo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Review by Flavio Luiz Gomes<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0857051121\/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0857051121&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=halhelvivnoex-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.assoc-amazon.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0857051121&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=halhelvivnoex-20\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=halhelvivnoex-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0857051121\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cThe Spies\u201d by Luiz Fernando Verissimo, an editor receives a manuscript that intrigues him to the point of becoming an obsession. He shares the story with his friends, and little by little the obsession is generalized and a mismatched group of &#8220;spies&#8221; is formed with the purpose of releasing the manuscript &#8211; and its author \u2013 from anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Spies\u201d is another classic Verissimo \u2013 refined with a kind humor that exposes the human limitations in a generous manner. As in other Verissimo\u2019s books there are intellectuals debating at a bar\u2019s table, but this time they decide to take action. &#8220;Intellectuals&#8221; and &#8220;action&#8221; do not often appear in the same sentence, and the author takes advantage this oxymoron in all its amusing potential, but the human side prevails and reality settles ensuring a melancholic ending.<\/p>\n<p>As always, I could not stop reading it until the very last word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review by Flavio Luiz Gomes &nbsp; &nbsp; In \u201cThe Spies\u201d by Luiz Fernando Verissimo, an editor receives a manuscript that intrigues him to the point of becoming an obsession. He shares the story with his friends, and little by little the obsession is generalized and a mismatched group of &#8220;spies&#8221; is formed with the purpose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,54],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction-2","category-mystery","tag-luis-fernando-verissimo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}