Noite (novel)

{{short description|Book by Erico Verissimo}} {{Infobox book |  | name = Noite | title_orig = | image = File:Noite.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Érico Veríssimo | cover_artist = | country = Brazil | language = Portuguese | series = | genre = Drama, Mystery | publisher = | pub_date = 1954 | media_type = Print (Paperback) }}

'''Noite''' (''Night'') is a novel written by Brazilian writer Érico Veríssimo in 1954.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Forster |first=Merlin H. |date=1962 |title=Structure and Meaning in Érico Veríssimo's "Noite" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/337356 |journal=Hispania |volume=45 |issue=4 |pages=712–716 |doi=10.2307/337356 |jstor=337356 |issn=0018-2133|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=Richard Cándida |date=2013 |title=Érico Veríssimo, a Brazilian Cultural Ambassador in the United States |url=https://doi.org/10.5533/TEM-1980-542X-2013173412 |journal=Tempo |volume=17 |issue=34 |pages=147–173 |doi=10.5533/tem-1980-542x-2013173412 |issn=1980-542X|doi-access=free }}</ref>

==Plot summary== In the 1950s, a man finds himself in the middle of the streets of Porto Alegre with a wallet full of money... and no memory of any past events.

He finds two "vultures of the night", enigmatic noctivague figures with a high penchant for bohemian lifestyles. The "vultures" (called The Master and The Hunchback) take the man on a surrealistic journey through the darkest places of the city, to "enjoy the night": a funeral parlor, the emergency service of a hospital, a deluxe whorehouse and a low-level working class cabaret.

At the same time, the two enigmatic figures surreptitiously try to make the man-with-no-memory assume that he committed a horrendous crime early that night, in which a woman was the subject of a brutal passion-related crime and no perpetrator was yet arrested by the police.

The book has a unique atmosphere in depicting the low-level bohemy that crowded some places in the Brazilian urban legends.

In the 1980s, Brazilian film director José Louzeiro conducted a movie loosely based on the book.

==References== {{Reflist}} Category:1954 Brazilian novels Category:Novels set in Porto Alegre Category:Brazilian novels adapted into films