Mário de Andrade: Macunaíma (Macunaíma)
The latest addition to my website is Mário de Andrade's Macunaíma (Macunaíma). When it first appeared, this was quite a revolutionary book, in that it was unlike other Brazilian novels…
The latest addition to my website is Mário de Andrade's Macunaíma (Macunaíma). When it first appeared, this was quite a revolutionary book, in that it was unlike other Brazilian novels…
The latest addition to my website is Adriana Lisboa's Azul-corvo (Crow Blue). Our heroine is Evangelina, known as Vanja, a thirteen year old, born in the US but who has…
The latest addition to my website is Erico Veríssímo's Caminhos cruzados (Crossroads). This tells the stories of a host of characters who live on or have connections with a street…
The latest addition to my website is Graça Aranha's Canaã (Canaan). We initially follow two German immigrants to Brazil who are looking to buy a plot and grow coffee. The…
The latest addition to my website is Nélida Piño's A república dos sonhos (The Republic of Dreams). This is a long and complicated family saga, which jumps around chronologically -…
The latest addition to my website is Rodrigo de Souza's Todos os Cachorros São Azuis (All Dogs are Blue). Rodrigo de Souza suffered from mental health issues and, for a…
The latest addition to my website is Roberto Drummond's Hilda Furacão (Hilda Hurricane). This is a very witty novel about a young woman from a prosperous background who gives it…
The latest addition to my website is Lima Barreto's Triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma (The Patriot; later: The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma). The book is set in the 1890s…
The latest edition to my website is Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands; later: Backlands: The Canudos Campaign). This is not a novel but has had considerable…
Every year at around this time, after returning from our annual escape-the-English-winter holiday, I focus on the literature of just one country. This year the country is Brazil. Brazil has…