Kramer Vanguard Fr-440

- Lucio's confession

The writer Lucio Vaz is an artist of the fin de siècle "appropriate. When he the poet Ricardo de Loureiro in Paris, both of their beloved city, meets, develops a deep friendship. When they meet again in Lisbon, lived with Ricardo Marta. The same holds if covered her past remains, which also returned to Lisbon Lucio, a mystery. Between Lucio and Magda kindled an affair, in keeping with the previously met in Paris artistic pleasure. However, when it decreases the frequency of meetings, as in Lucio matures the assurance that Magda has other lovers, he is tormented by doubt and jealousy. Especially because he still learns nothing from her, and he therefore also can not withdraw to the status of the first lover. This, for him, that the non-noticing the affairs by Ricardo, converts his feelings towards him in contempt because of his seemingly lack of pride, later moving to Paris. When he accidentally found then returns to Lisbon and Ricardo met by chance one day, he makes his feelings. Ricardo, horrified asserts that he has done so only out of love for Lucio - goes with him to his house and shoots Magda. Interestingly, however, is dead before Lucio Ricardo himself

is this love triangle. If it's an - and unless behind it not just a homosexual relationship between Lucio and Ricardo hides. The option is not the only reason why open because Marta remains only vaguely, and in the memory configured Lucios which he writes down after ten years in prison. It is also so open because Lucio himself has his doubts about the femininity Marta's because he kisses the two (the end) than the same feel and because Ricardo has indicated that it is only in a change of sex in fact a relationship with a person of the same sex might lead. Lucio could have done it, but they have to some extent displaced and the spare figure of Marta have created - so it would even death at the end, can be explained as a murder at the end.
Or the whole thing is just an experiment, Ricardo, complete control over a woman, in a way even the identity with it, the other he will be given to suggest - a way to control these. Such indeed find itself in de Sade.

With this permanent uncertainty about the true relationship in the novel, but this is interesting. The uncertainties in addition to permanent suicidal hints let him appear even more uncertain than the whole picture beautiful. Oh ...



(14 [literary features -> Selvagismo], 23 [own contempt]; 29ff [lust-art], 35 [the beginning of friendship with Ricardo] sleep 45 [can];] Switch 59 [sex, 61 [expression of life], 73 [ Marta disappear] in the chair, 86 he [should have said that it is not reflected], 91 [not there -> not] alive, 127 [the last work] into the fire, 131 ["We are we-both!" ], 135 [shot himself], 141 ["it still gives me"])