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Jorge Amado
Jorge Amado is simultaneously one of Brazil's most prolific and widely read novelists and one of its most controversial. Seeking to offer for his English-speaking audience the same range of critical thinking that surrounds his work in Brazil, this volume provides an introduction and chronology to Amado's life, followed by a comprehensive survey of his major works by some of the world's leading Latin American Studies scholars. As the case of Jorge Amado is central to the emergence of Brazilian literature in the twentieth century, this volume of original essays will place him in clearer critical perspective for English language readers.
Jorge Amado (Brazi)
Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work. Each volume features: -- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works -- A brief biography of the author -- An accessible chronology outlining the life, the work, and relevant historical context -- Aids for further study: complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index -- A readable style presented in a manageable length
Sea of Death
A Brazilian modernist novel written by Jorge Amado. Amado wrote the novel in response to his first arrest for "being a communist". The novel follows the lives of poor fishermen around Bahia, and their relationship with the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, especially the sea goddess Iemanjá.
The Violent Land
From the great Brazilian author, an exotic tale of greed, madness, and a dispute between two powerful families over land on the cocoa-rich coast of Bahia A Penguin Classic The siren song of the lush, cocoa-growing forests of Bahia lures them all—the adventurers, the assassins, the gamblers, the brave and beautiful women. It is not a gentle song, but a song of greed, madness, and blood. It is a song that promises riches untold, or death for the price of a swig of rum . . . a song most cannot resist—until it is too late—not Margot, the golden blond prostitute who comes for love; not Cabral, the unscrupulous lawyer who works for one of the Cacao “colonels”; and not Juca, whose ruthles...
Pen, Sword, Camisole
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Tent of Miracles
Explores the life of Pedro Archanjo, a mulatto man who spent his life fighting prejudice.
Suor
En plein cœur de la vieille Bahia, une ancienne bâtisse coloniale, apparemment comme les autres, au n°68 de la Montée-du-Pelourinho. Quatre étages. Un escalier obscur. Le bistrot de Fernandes sur le devant. Dans les cent seize chambres, plus de six cents personnes, sans compter les rats. Isaac, dona Risoleta, la douce Linda, le Noir Henrique, Arthur dont la machine a broyé les deux bras, qui mendie et fait peur aux enfants, l'agitateur Avaro Lima... c'est tout un monde prétendu sans hygiène et sans morale que Jorge Amado met en scène dans ce seul lieu qui évoque l'arène du théâtre antique et où s'élevait autrefois le piloris destiné aux esclaves. Un monde malade, révolté, misérable, qui sue de la sueur des opprimés, dégage une odeur de chambre de défunt, mais qui aime et reste la vitalité même, et saura peut-être un jour bouleverser sa condition, pourtant la plus désespérée.
Jubiabá
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