{"id":294756,"date":"2013-08-02T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2013\/08\/02\/latest-review-the-book-of-emotions-by-joao-almino\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:09:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:09:44","slug":"latest-review-the-book-of-emotions-by-joao-almino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2013\/08\/02\/latest-review-the-book-of-emotions-by-joao-almino\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: "The Book of Emotions" by Jo\u00e3o Almino"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition<\/a> to our Reviews Section<\/a> is by Chad W. Post on The Book of Emotions<\/em> by Jo\u00e3o Almino, from Dalkey Archive Press.<\/p>\n

Here’s the beginning of the review:<\/p>\n

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Jo\u00e3o Almino\u2019s The Book of Emotions<\/em> is the prototypical Dalkey Archive book. Not that all of Dalkey\u2019s books are the same, but there is a certain set of criteria that a lot of their titles have\u2014and which Almino\u2019s novel has in spades:<\/p>\n

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  1. It\u2019s a book about someone trying to write a book.<\/li>\n

    \nbq. From Mulligan Stew<\/em> to At Swim-Two-Birds<\/em> to The Journalist<\/em>, this is a set-up that runs through a lot of Dalkey\u2019s titles. In this case, Cadu, a former photographer is constructing a memoir about his life in Bras\u00edlia out of some of his old photos. The text alternates from his personal \u201ccurrent moment\u201d experiences (which mostly revolve around trying to set up his goddaughter while sexually crushing on the girl helping him organize his photo files) and the text of his book, entitled \u201cThe Book of Emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n

  2. The main character\u2019s life didn\u2019t turn out the way he had hoped.<\/li>\n

    \nbq. If you\u2019ve never read the \u201cLetters to the Editor\u201d from the back of the Review of Contemporary Fiction<\/em>, you really should. A good number of them are quite hysterical, generally featuring a decrepit old man whose life has unraveled. In the case of The Book of Emotions<\/em>, the aforementioned photographer is still pining away for Joana, the woman he loved who left him for a corrupt politician. Not that our protagonist doesn\u2019t have his share of women\u2014it seems like he\u2019s slept with everyone\u2014but that never seems to work out either: the boy he fathered doesn\u2019t know him and is in prison, the woman he marries dies tragically young, etc.<\/p>\n

  3. The protagonist has mental or health issues.<\/li>\n

    \nThis is true of most every book in the world, but in keeping with the sad sack people who write into RCF<\/span><\/em> with their problems, Cadu is blind and pretty much bed ridden. His best days are behind him, and he\u2019s trapped with just the memories of his life, loves, and pictures. Which brings up the fourth key aspect to a \u201ctypical\u201d Dalkey book . . .\n<\/ol>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    For the rest of the review, go here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The latest addition to our Reviews Section is by Chad W. Post on The Book of Emotions by Jo\u00e3o Almino, from Dalkey Archive Press. Here’s the beginning of the review: Jo\u00e3o Almino\u2019s The Book of Emotions is the prototypical Dalkey Archive book. Not that all of Dalkey\u2019s books are the same, but there is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67456],"tags":[9196,7666,17496,48796,48786,1646,52486],"class_list":["post-294756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-brazilian-literature","tag-chad-w-post","tag-dalkey-archive-press","tag-elizabeth-jackson","tag-joao-almino","tag-review","tag-the-book-of-emotions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310516,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294756\/revisions\/310516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}