Author: Dilip Loundo
Publisher: National Book Trust
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 248
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8123734875
Description
This volume is an anthology of modern Brazilian literature with a comprehensive introduction and brings together eighteen of the finest writers with some of the translations being done for the first time.
Brazil, once the only country in Latin America to be colonized by the Portuguese, now, presents a vibrant picture of multi-cultural dynamics, born of a commingling of its native Indians, the enslaved Africans and the Portuguese conquerors. Its literature, thus shaped by a process of culture homogenization, provides a lively account of conflict and reconciliation.
While reflecting the major trends, this anthology covers a vast ground transcending literary genres, to bring together eighteen of the finest writers, with some of the translations being done for the first time. A comprehensive introduction, serves as a scholarly background to the understanding of the growth and development of Brazilian literature.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
PART I: NOVEL (excerpts)
Barren Lives : Graciliano Ramos
Macunaima : Mario De Andrade
Extinct Fire : Jose Lins do Rego
Time and the Wind : Erico Verissimo
The Devil to Pay in the Backlands : Joao Guimaraes Rosa
Violent Land : Jorge Amado
PART II: POETRY
MANUEL BANDEIRA
The Cactus
I’m Going Away to Pasargadae
Poetics
Morning Star
Song of the Two Indias
A Moment in a Café
Preparation for Death
New poetics
MURILO MENDES
Love and Cosmos
The Latest Prometheus
The Child of the Century
The March of the History
Dialectic Poem
When
Clashes
Time
CECILIA MEIRELES
Motive
Acceptance
Reinvention
Self- portrait
4th Motive of the rose
Inscription
Participation
It’s no Longer Me But the flower
CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE
Poem of Seven Faces
In the Middle of the Road
Secret
The Feeling of the World
The Shoulders Bear the World
Hand in Hand
Search for Poetry
The Flower and the Nausea
VINICIUS DE MORAES
Sonnet of Fidelity
Atomic Bomb
Departure
Sonnet of Farewell
Sonnet of Separation
Sonnet of the Rose
Rose of Hiroshima
Poem of the Beloved’s Eyes
JOAO CARBAL DE MELO NETO
Fable of an Architect
Little Mineral Ode
The Engineer
Psychology of Composition
Poem
The Hen’s Egg
Lesson of Poetry
PART III: SHORT STORY
When the Earth was Round : Jose J Veiga
The Groom : Lygia Fagundes Telles
Large Intestine : Rubem Fonseca
Imitation of the Rose : Clarice Lispector
A Visit to the Teacher : Dalton Trevisan
Harvest : Nelida Pinon
Glossary
Bibliography
Brief Chronology of Brazilian History
Map of Brazil