All Dogs Are Blue

All Dogs Are Blue | Deborah Levy, Rodrigo De Souza Leao

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#ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Brazil ??
Souza Leão's autobiographical novel of his experience of forced institutionalisation for schizophrenia in a Brazilian psychiatric "hospital" is harrowing & insightful, sad & funny, raw & tender, coarse & literate. Self-loathing is part of the sadness in reading his story, & there's a lot of fatphobic language directed at himself, as well as scatological imagery & institutional abuse. It's beautiful, too. ❤️‍?

Bookwomble @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle My fifth country for the challenge 🙂 2y

Librarybelle Hooray!! 2y

azulaco Adding to my possibles list for #Brazil. This sounds good. 2y

Bookwomble @azulaco It's a challenging read, but I found it rewarding 🙂 2y

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All Dogs Are Blue | Deborah Levy, Rodrigo De Souza Leao

"I had moments of lucidity. They were few, but I had them. Sometimes the drugs did work. But there were people who didn't get better, even with the medicine. What good is hospitalisation, then? To gather together the human debris."

"My God! Fundamentalists are taking over the world. They're even coming here to recruit the utterly fucked. Religion nowadays just fucks with people."

- Rodrigo de Souza Leão

Bookwomble "Governments do so many things to destroy the lives of those who are a nuisance to them." 2y

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All Dogs Are Blue | Deborah Levy, Rodrigo De Souza Leao

"If you don't suffer, you're not alive. If you're alive, you eat French fries. It's a good thing there are always French fries to ease the burden." ?
- Rodrigo de Souza Leão

batsy All of the quotes you've posted from this are just 👌🏾 2y

Bookwomble @batsy It was as good as I'd hoped, if not quite what I'd expected, which was a positive thing 😊 2y

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All Dogs Are Blue | Deborah Levy, Rodrigo De Souza Leao

"All Dogs are Blue is a comic modernist novel about being messed up - and then being messed up even more by numbing doses of pharmaceuticals."
From the introduction by Deborah Levy.

The story of a Brazilian man diagnosed with schizophrenia and his treatment in a psychiatric facility, written from the author's perspective of having lived those experiences. From the bits I've scanned, I have high hopes for this one.

Bookwomble This is a second entry for #Brazil 🇧🇷 in my #ReadingTheAmericas2033 challenge, but depth is as important as breadth 😊
@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB 2y

Librarybelle Yay! 2y

BarbaraBB Sure thing 😀 2y

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batsy This sounds interesting! Thanks for putting it on my radar 🙂 2y

Bookwomble @batsy It is, though there's slightly more about masturbation than I was anticipating (which, to be honest, was none) in the opening section that I've read so far. It's graphic, but I think not gratuitous, which makes a difference. 2y

batsy @Bookwomble Oh, interesting! Certainly not what I might have expected either, but good to know that it doesn't feel gratuitous. 2y

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DrBird

All Dogs Are Blue | Deborah Levy, Rodrigo De Souza Leao

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Love it. read it twice. Which I don't normally do these days.

DrBird

All Dogs Are Blue | Deborah Levy, Rodrigo De Souza Leao

Read this twice: back-to-back. It is a truly astonishing voice. It feels almost like the opening section of THE SOUND AND THE FURY. Except better and more coherent. Note: Levy is the translator, not the author.

SoniaC

All Dogs Are Blue | Deborah Levy, Rodrigo De Souza Leao

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This is an amazingly original book. The story of a schizophrenic in an asylum in Rio by an author who walked that journey. It is quirky and funny and sad but mostly it manages to be powerful and beautiful even in its dark moments. I recommend this book to any adventurous readers. A glimpse into the mind of the mad and the underbelly of Brazil.

Lindy Your review makes it clear that this is definitely in my wheelhouse, plus I've loved the two Levy books I've previously read. I would have added this to my Litsy stack if it wasn't already there. 8y

SoniaC @Lindy I hope you enjoy it. It's so fascinating! 8y

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SoniaC

All Dogs Are Blue | Deborah Levy, Rodrigo De Souza Leao

Excited to start this one today. I have high hopes for it.

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