Brazilian Tales - Couverture souple

De Assis, Joaquim Maria Machado

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438509014 ISBN 13 : 9781438509013

Editeur : Book Jungle, 2009

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. The noted Brazilian critic, José Verissimo, in a short but important essay on the deficiencies of his country's letters, has expressed serious doubt as to whether there exists a genuinely Brazilian literature. 'I do not know,' he writes, 'whether the existence of an entirely independent literature is possible without an entirely independent language.' In this sense Verissimo would deny the existence of a Swiss, or a Belgian, literature. In this sense, too, it was no doubt once possible, with no small measure of justification, to deny the existence of an American, as distinguished from an English, literature. Yet, despite the subtle psychic bonds that link identity of speech to similarity of thought, the environment (which helps to shape pronunciation as well as vocabulary and the language itself) is, from the standpoint of literature, little removed from language as a determining factor. Looking at the question, however, from the purely linguistic standpoint, it is important to remember that the Spanish of Spanish America is more different from the parent tongue than is the English of this country from that of the mother nation.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Dr. Isaac Goldberg, noted authority on Latin-American literature, selected for this volume half a dozen of the best-known short stories in Brazilian literature, and accompanied them with an extensive essay on Brazilian fiction in which he discusses the criteria that constitutes the birth of a national literature; for, Brazil was still under a linguistic and cultural domination of Portugal. This volume gives an opportunity to learn about and to know some of the outstanding authors of the great nation of Brazil in the Southern Hemisphere.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Book Jungle
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1438509014
• ISBN 13: 9781438509013
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 76