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A review by blueyorkie
A Casa dos Budas Ditosos by João Ubaldo Ribeiro
3.0
There are orgies, pederasty, lesbianism, incest, paedophilia and zoophilia. These unusual sexual practices lived and dictated by a terminally sixty-year-old journalist and published by the Bahian writer João Ubaldo Ribeiro make up the plot of The House of the Fortunate Buddhas.
In the preface, the Bahian writer clarifies that this narrative “is a true account” “and that its author is a 68-year-old woman, born in Bahia and residing in Rio de Janeiro”. A bourgeois in love with life, an intellectual who often quotes with profound wisdom, in a mix of slang and eruditeness, from the Latin poet Quintus Horatius Flaco to the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
Even with explicit descriptions of the sexual act, giving up metaphors and lyricism, the work is not mere pornography or sexual appeal for profit, The House of the Fortunate Buddhas is good erotic literature. However, it cruelly exposes a side of the “male man” and the “female-man” that the species itself refuses to admit that it has, opening up the hypocrisy of the “politically correct”.
Undoubtedly a novel that makes us think or rethink our concepts of sexual freedom.
In the preface, the Bahian writer clarifies that this narrative “is a true account” “and that its author is a 68-year-old woman, born in Bahia and residing in Rio de Janeiro”. A bourgeois in love with life, an intellectual who often quotes with profound wisdom, in a mix of slang and eruditeness, from the Latin poet Quintus Horatius Flaco to the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
Even with explicit descriptions of the sexual act, giving up metaphors and lyricism, the work is not mere pornography or sexual appeal for profit, The House of the Fortunate Buddhas is good erotic literature. However, it cruelly exposes a side of the “male man” and the “female-man” that the species itself refuses to admit that it has, opening up the hypocrisy of the “politically correct”.
Undoubtedly a novel that makes us think or rethink our concepts of sexual freedom.