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The Underground Gods marks Cristovam Buarque's definitive entry into the sphere of postmodern fiction.
"Bringing together science fiction resources and the portrayal of characters with intense intellectual and political motivation, Cristovam Buarque weaved a web of intrigue within which the contradictions of the contemporary world echo. He creates cybernetic heroes by exploring the human mind in connection with a complex computerized matrix, whose central memory comes from the gods. And he includes, in the dilettante adventure of enthusiastic students, an international plot, involving nations in a crisis of identity, with the collapse of the East. The art of the fiction writer resides in the cunning involvement of the reader in the discussion of eternal themes of literature, such as life, death, the power of art, the autonomy of the human being in the face of the action of the gods, whose survival, in turn, will depend on human consciousness. All this without studying the human/machine relationship. Interestingly, the novelist revolves the entire plot around a strategic location: Brasília, with its rational power and magical surroundings."
- FABIO LUCAS
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