by Ivan Angelo

Ivan Angelo (b. 1937) was part of an important intellectual generation that formed in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in the 1950s, and that included such notable writers as Fernando Gabeira, Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna, and Silviano Santiago. A practicing journalist throughout his literary career, Angelo began writing short stories in the 1950s. His first volume of short stories, Homem sofrendo no quarto, won the City of Belo Horizonte Award in 1959. Other works include Duas faces (1961), A casa de vidro (1979; The Tower of Glass, 1986), A face horrível (1986), all of which are collections of short stories, and the novella Amor? (1995). He has also published numerous works of fiction for young people. The Celebration, his only novel to date, concerns Brazilian society at the time—or very shortly before— Ivan Angelo wrote the work.

Events in History at the Time of the Novel

The Celebration deals...