An Invincible Memory Author:Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro This book promises us something that contemporary Brazilian fiction has tended to shy away from, but which is nevertheless an endeavor worth defending: a coherent and meaningful vision of his country’s historical experience ‘from below’, challenging the ‘Great Men’ theory of Brazilian history ‘as it was taught... more » to me in school’ (to quote the dust jacket). Indeed, the novel’s moral weight undoubtedly derives from its identification with the oppressed of Brazil and its insistent call for their liberation.« less