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Brazil also holds its own literary academy, the Brazilian Academy of Letters, a non-profit cultural organization pointed in perpetuating the care of the national language and literature. [4] Brazilian literature has been very prolific. Having as birth the letter of Pero Vaz de Caminha, the document that marks the discovery of Brazil, the ...
Category: History of literature in Brazil. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 21st-century Brazilian literature (2 C) L.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Portuguese: [ʒwɐˈkĩ maˈɾiɐ maˈʃadu d͡ʒ(i) aˈsis]), often known by his surnames as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho [1] (21 June 1839 – 29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Films based on works by Brazilian writers (5 C, 1 P) H. History of literature in Brazil (5 C) I. Brazil in fiction (16 C, 7 P) L.
Os Sertões is considered one of the most important Brazilian works from this historical period, an effort to represent the nation as a totality. Despite its outdated scientific and historical ideas, Da Cunha's book is a cornerstone of Brazilian literary and political culture.
In the context of Brazilian literary history, ‘Realism’ refers to a commitment from writers to provide “authenticity” to literary works which engenders a sense of national identity. [38] Brazilian Realism was an important facet of nation-building during the colonial and post-colonial eras and is said to have resulted in the rejection of ...
Indianism (Portuguese: Indianismo) was a Brazilian literary and artistic movement that reached its peak during the first stages of Romanticism in the country, though it had been present in Brazilian literature since the Baroque period.