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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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