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Portugal and Brazil in Transition was first published in 1968. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Through a series of essays on various aspects of Portuguese and Brazilian culture, this book presents an enlightening picture of contemporary civilization in the two countries and a forecast of what the next twenty years or so may bring. The authors discuss subjects in such basic fields as literature, linguistics, history, the social sciences, geography, the fine arts, music, and natural science. Taken as a whole, the contents demonstrate the...
“Ask an authority on Brazilian culture what he considers to be the most significant artistic event in Brazil during this century,” observes John Nist, “and he will quickly reply, ‘The Modern Art Week Exhibition, staged in Sao Paulo in February, 1922.’ This public demonstration and aesthetic manifesto represented a cut with the past, a violent break with tradition unparalleled in Brazilian history. The fact that Brazilians still discuss the poetical renovation achieved by Modernism shows how strongly the movement attacked and questioned traditional attitudes, cherished preconceptions, prejudiced aspects of a national sensibility that still persists, in some quarters, to this day. As...
In this book, both beginning and experienced translators will find pragmatic techniques for dealing with problems of literary translation, whatever the original language. Certain challenges and certain themes recur in translation, whatever the language pair. This guide proposes to help the translator navigate through them.
V Living and Learning arrives at the right time for eighty-seven years, as if an almost romantic report on life and accounting, with balance sheets and balance of experiences and coexistence. Shows life as if in group work, school with students from different grades. Predestination or destiny of many souls, paths on multiple paths, human family with akashic records, as the Indians think. My lessons, my choices, my problems. My story, my stories: no disappointment, not one at all! At different times, family members, companions, colleagues, friends, brothers, confreres, nuns, coreligionists, opponents, critics, everyone in eternal learning and teaching. Who? With whom? By whom? For whom? From who? What? Where? To where? As? When? How much? Why? For what? Each one, each thing, each company, each event, at the right time, in the right place, formal or non-formal learning. Many verbs conjugated in all moods and tenses: to be/not to be, to have, to act, to see/be seen, to see from the inside or from the outside, to watch/represent, to enter, to leave, to stay, to feel, to believe, to substitute/be substituted, to agree/not to agree. Diversified the exercise of living and acting.
One of three independent but coordinated studies on Brazilian regionalism, this book examines the complex dynamics of state-level and political structures in the politically important state of Minas Gerais.
Marcoré, first published in Rio de Janeiro in 1957, won the coveted prize for fiction awarded by the Brazilian Academy of Letters and has been praised by leading critics and writers in Brazil. The novel has maintained favor with the Brazilian public and has also been published and received with enthusiasm in Portugal. Adopting the intimist, introspective approach characteristic of such writers as Machado de Assis and Graciliano Ramos, Pereira tells a moving, bittersweet tale of personal problems and family relationships. The central character of Marcoré is the narrator, a modest, introverted individual who, aware of his own human condition, tends to view life with pessimism tempered with c...