![]() Teodoro is a romantic and is therefore kind of terrible in bed. Vadinho likes sex and doesn’t feel uncomfortable about it at all. Amado’s characters’ complicated humanity could be summed up like this: Flor likes sex, a lot, but feels kind of uncomfortable about it. Amado deals, primarily, in clichés and while this novel isn’t really allegorical (because the sex stands in for sex, and the concern for reputation is represented by nothing other than itself, for example), its characters look flatly allegorical. But it’s not subtle and it really offers almost nothing in terms of insight into what makes people tick. This is not to say it isn’t fun and generally well-written, for it is both these things. In this battle between spirit and matter, the body wins out and Dona Flor finds a way to appear to inhabit both these realms to her own (nearly infinite) satisfaction.ĭona Flor and Her Two Husbands is rather a silly novel. It isn’t much of a battle, in the end–having known extremities of sexual joy with her first husband, the roguish and incorrigible Vadhino, Dona Flor tries to re-imagine herself as a staid and entirely respectable woman in her second marriage to the gentle but dull Teodoro. Jorge Amado’s Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands claims, in its subtitle, to be about “the fearsome battle between spirit and matter”. ![]()
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