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Weldal wrote:Brazilian literature: the books of Machado de Assis, José de Alencar, Jorge Amado and Érico Veríssimo.
Portuguese literature: the books of Eça de Queirós, Camilo Castelo Branco and José Saramago.
ekalin wrote:But all? I guess the idea was to select the best among the best... however difficult that might be!
Weldal wrote:but I think that all his books, even the first ones, were all good books, I can recommend all of them...
Patricia wrote:From Argentina:
All books by:
Weldal wrote:And I also think that such analysis is very difficult. I didn't mention wonderful Brazilian and Portuguese writers, such as Aluísio Azevedo, Guimarães Rosa, José Lins do Rego and Graciliano Ramos (Brazil) and Julio Diniz and Fernando Namora (Portugal)... because I chose the ones that I prefer, even if I like very much the other ones as well...
ekalin wrote:Yuck! To me Guimarães Rosa is the kind of author that should be forgotten.
Weldal wrote:Probably you are the first person who says so...
Then add to your "list" "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, in which the author writes exactly in the way that countryside people from that Missouri-Mississipi region speak.
ekalin wrote:Mark Twain may do that, but Guimarães doesn't. OK, he does, but he does more: and this is the problem. He used a whole lot of neologisms and invented words (a la James Joyce). For this reason, his books (at least some of them) are incomprehensible.
Luís wrote:Psi-Lord wrote:My Portuguese teacher could have orgasms talking about him
I guess you're not being literal here, but either way I think your teacher should see a pshychologist
Zoroa wrote:Wow ! I never thout I' d ever hear that Joyce wasn't worth reading !!!
Psi-Lord wrote:He's also making up his mind between Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" and Abbé Prévost's "Manon Leascaut", but I'm getting off topic here...
Weldal wrote:I have read "Scarlet Letter"and I liked it very much, later I watched the movie and I also liked it very much...
I have read "Manon Lescault" and I also liked it very much. I wonder if there is any movie about it...
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