History Creator / LuisFernandoVerissimo

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* CulturedBadass: The Analyst from Bagé, the personification of TestosteronePoisoning, is also a well read psychologist that has given lectures abroad. That said, most of his methods, such as building a Pavlovian response in a kleptomaniac by slapping the poor guy every time the he tried to steal his mate gourd, are far from sophisticated.

* Peter Vest-Pocket: A MartiniAndTuxedo styled spy, whose hypercompetent exploits are relegated to [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome Offscreen Moments of Awesome]], since his stories mostly center on ''haute cuisine''.

* The Devil's Garden: A PulpFiction writer is visited by a police inspector who tells him of a murder identical to the one described in his latest novel. The entire pulp book on which he's working is included as a [[ShowWithinAShow Novel Within a Novel]].

* The Spies: An alcoholic publisher becomes obsessed with a small-town amateur writer, believing her manuscript to be a ''Roman à la Clef''. He sends his bar buddies to her city as spies, believing heis thus going to "save her" from an abusive husband.

Usually his work is aimed towards a middle- to upper-class audience and has a distinctive left-leaning appeal. This includes SliceOfLife stories, genre fiction parodies and ObservationalHumor. A few stories do, however, take a turn for the dark, leading to a classic case of CerebusRollercoaster.

* The Old Lady from Taubaté - during the very unpopular terms of presidents Figueiredo, Sarney (1980s) and Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1990s), an old lady from Taubat&eacute, a city northeast of São Paulo, who was "the last person who still believes in what [[TheGovernment the government]] says". She was KilledOffForReal in 2005, when the governmental mess finally became too much for her.

* AuthorAppeal: Talking about his favorite soccer team (Internacional) his favoured political party (PT, short for Partido dos Trabalhadores, or Workers' Party), or actress (Luana Piovani), one of his inspiring muses.

Usually his work is aimed towards a middle to upper class audience and has a distinctive left-leaning appeal. This includes SliceOfLife stories, genre fiction parodies and ObservationalHumor. A few stories do, however, take a turn for the dark, leading to a classic case of CerebusRollercoaster.

* CatchPhrase: "Mort, Ed Mort, its in the sign [on the door]", [[IronicEcho Echoed]], and, later, "Mort, Ed Mort, its in the sign. Someone stole my sign".

Luis Fernando Verissimo (born September 26, 1936 in Porto Alegre, Brazil) is a best selling Brazilian writer, little known abroad. He rose to fame in the 70's, mastering a genre named [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage "Chronicle"]]: weekly or daily columns in a newspaper, ranging between humorous political commentary and witty short stories about daily urban life. In Brazil, chroniclers are usually considered short story writers or columnists, as opposed to historians.

Since then, he has published 40 books of short stories and newspaper columns, 7 novels and 15 comic books. In the meantime, he also plays the saxophone in Jazz 6, [[NonIndicativeName a sextet of five players]]. His father, Érico, was an important figure for brazilian literature, having written many classics, most notably the epic trilogy Time and The Wind.

* The analyst from Bagé - a Gaucho Freudian analyst. Enough said, if you know what a [[TestosteronePoisoning Gaucho]] is. Those stories usually have a satiric edge, though not everyone got that.
* The old lady from Taubaté - during the very unpopular terms of presidents General Figueiredo, José Sarney (1980's) and Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1990's), an old lady from the small city of Taubaté would become famous as "the last who still believes in what [[TheGovernment the government]] says". She was KilledOffForReal in 2005, when the government's mess was big enough to frustrate her.
* Ed Mort - a satire on HardBoiledDetective stories, set on Rio de Janeiro. The Ed Mort stories have been adapted to a series of [[GraphicNovel albums]], a feature film, a MadeForTVMovie and a short-lived TV Series.

* Pega pra Kaputt (untranslateable pun[[note]]To try and explain, its a pun on "Pega Pra Capar", an idiom meaning "all out brawl", [[ItAmusedMe Verissimo probably just thought it was funny]][[/note]]): After the fall of the Thir Reich, ThoseWackyNazis send Hitler's lone testicle to [[ArgentinaIsNaziLand Brazil]] with the intent of cloning him. The nut is cursed, accidentally falling on the hands of a hapless jewish dentist who's unaware of what it is. A mix of prose and comic strips.
* The Devil's Garden: A PulpFiction writer is visited by a police inspector who tells him of a murder identical to the one described on his latest novel. The entire pulp book on which he's working is included as a [[ShowWithinAShow Novel Within a Novel]].
* Club of Angels (Gluttony): A group of wealthy, decadent gourmets starts dying, one by one, after they hire a new mysterious cook. It's pretty obvious the cook is poisoning them, but the food is so good, they're okay with it. Part of a series on novels exploring the SevenDeadlySins.
* Borges and the Eternal Orangutans: An AssholeVictim is murdered during a meeting of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe scholars, all of whom are familiar with LockedRoomMystery tropes. Author Creator/JorgeLuisBorges is summoned as a consultant, due to his extensive knowledge on Poe. Part of a series exploring different writers.
* The Opposing: An incompetent detective travels into the Amazon Forest looking for a missing american scientist, who was involved with a pacifist native cult. Part of a series about individual ''fingers''.
* Twelfth Night: A retelling of the Shakespeare play, with characters reinterpreted as brazilian immigrants to France. The RecursiveCrossdressing gets a bit bizarre, since lots of the characters are reimagined as ''actual'' transexuals. [[RunningGag Part of a series of Shakespeare retellings]].
* The Spies: An alcoholic publisher becomes obsessed with a small-town amateur writer, believing her manuscript to be a ''Roman à la Clef''. He sends his bar buddies to her city as spies, assuming he's going to "save her" from an abusive husband.

* ArcNumber: every single time he needs a random number, he uses either 17 or 117. Every. Single. Time. It was even discussed in a newspaper column of his, in the late 1990's.
* AuthorAppeal: Talking about his soccer team Internacional, his favoured political party, PT, or actress Luana Piovani, one of his inspiring muses.
* CatchPhrase: "Mort, Ed Mort, its in the plaque", [[IronicEcho Echoed]] later with "Mort, Ed Mort, its in the plaque. They stole my plaque".
* CulturedBadass: The Analyst from Bagé, the personification of TestosteronePoisoning, is also a well read psychologist that has given lectures abroad. That said, most of his methods, such as building a pavlovian response in a kleptomaniac by slapping the poor guy every time the he tried to steal his mate gourd, are far from sophisticated.
* PerpetualPoverty: Ed Mort's schtick, he's so dirt poor the roaches in his office band together to laugh at him.

* In the detective novel "Borges And The Eternal Orangutans", the UnreliableNarrator is the single eye witness to a highly symbolism-heavy crime scene that is quickly messed up. The body is was a V position, close to a mirror, making a sign, but he can't remember exactly what was the sign it formed (and somehow this is significant for solving the crime). The chapters are properly named X, O, W, M and <>.

* FanNickname: During Fernando Henrique Cardoso's tenure as Brazilian president, Verissimo always called him "Efe agá" ("Eff ache").[[invoked]]

* Pega pra Kaputt (untranslateable pun): After the fall of the Thir Reich, ThoseWackyNazis send Hitler's lone testicle to [[ArgentinaIsNaziLand Brazil]] with the intent of cloning him. The nut is cursed, accidentally falling on the hands of a hapless jewish dentist who's unaware of what it is. A mix of prose and comic strips.

Since then, he has published 40 books of short stories and newspaper columns, 7 novels and 15 comic books. In the meantime, he also plays the saxophone in Jazz 6, [[NonIndicativeName a sextet of five players]]. His father Erico is a noted writer.

A best selling Brazilian writer, little known abroad. He rose to fame in the 70's, mastering a genre named [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage "Chronicle"]]: weekly or daily columns in a newspaper, ranging between humorous political commentary and witty short stories about daily urban life. In Brazil, chroniclers are usually considered short story writers or columnists, as opposed to historians.

* CatchPhrase: "Mort, Ed Mort, its in the plaque", [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] later with "Mort, Ed Mort, its in the plaque. They stole my plaque".

* CatchPrhase: "Mort, Ed Mort, its in the plaque", [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] later with "Mort, Ed Mort, its in the plaque. They stole my plaque".

* TrueArtIsAngsty: The narrator of "The Spies" seems to base his life on this belief.
* StrawLoser: A recurring theme.

A best selling Brazilian writer, little known abroad. He rose to fame in the 70's, mastering a genre named [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage"Chronicle"]]: weekly or daily columns in a newspaper, ranging between humorous political commentary and witty short stories about daily urban life. In Brazil, chroniclers are usually considered short story writers or columnists, as opposed to historians.

A best selling Brazilian writer, little known abroad. He rose to fame in the 70's, mastering a genre named "Chronicle": weekly or daily columns in a newspaper, ranging between humorous political commentary and witty short stories about daily urban life.

* The analyst from Bagé - a Gaucho Freudian analyst. Enough said, if you know what a [[TestosteronePoisoning Gaucho]] is.
* The old lady from Taubaté - during the very unpopular terms of presidents General Figueiredo, José Sarney (1980's) and Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1990's), an old lady from the small city of Taubaté would become famous as "the last who still believes in what [[TheGovernment the government]] says". She was KilledOffForReal in 2005, when the government's mess was big enough to frustrate her!
* Ed Mort - a satire on noir detective stories, set on Rio de Janeiro.

* MeaningfulName: In the same novel, there's a detective whose name is Cuervo (spanish for crow), who's also a specialist in [[Creator/EdgarAllanPoe Poe]]'s work. A friend of his (Borges) jokes that Cuervo has the "privileged point of view of an insider".

* AuthorAppeal: Talking about his soccer team Internacional or his favoured political party, PT.

* MeaningfulName: In the same novel, there's a detective whose name is Cuervo (spanish for crow), who's also a specialist in [[EdgarAllanPoe Poe]]'s work. A friend of his (Borges) jokes that Cuervo has the "privileged point of view of an insider".

Since then, he has published 40 books of short stories and newspaper columns, 7 novels and 15 comic books. In the meantime, he also plays the Saxophone.

* DetractorNickname: During Fernando Henrique Cardoso's tenure as Brazilian president, Verissimo always called him "Efe agá" ("Eff ache").[[invoked]]

* The analyst from Bagé - a Gaucho Freudian analyst. Enough said, if you know what a Gaucho is.
* The old lady from Taubaté - during the very unpopular terms of presidents General Figueiredo, José Sarney (1980's) and Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1990's), an old lady from the small city of Taubaté would become famous as "the last who still believes in what [[TheGovernment the government]] says".

!!In his short stories and boos there are examples of:

* RunningGag: a lot, really, a lot, thanks to the newspaper-column thing.

* The analyst from Bagé - a [[Gaucho]] Freudian analyst. Enough said, if you know what a [[Gaucho]] is.

* [[ArcNumber]]: every single time he needs a random number, he uses either 17 or 117. Every. Single. Time. It was even discussed in a newspaper column of his, in the late 1990's.
* [[RunningGag]]: a lot, really, a lot, thanks to the newspaper-column thing.