A descoberta da América pelos turcos : romancinho / Jorge Amado ; ilustrações e arte gráfica de Pedro Costa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001.

Language:

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Discoveries in geography.

America--Discovery and exploration--Arab--Fiction.

America.

Literatura--Brasil.

Local Subjects:

Literatura--Brasil.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xx, 171 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

De como o árabe Jamil Bichara, desbravador de florestas, de visita à cidade de Itabuna para dar abasto ao corpo, ali lhe ofereceram fortuna e casamento.

Esponsais de Adma.

Place of Publication:

Rio de Janeiro, RJ : Editora Record, 1994.

Summary:

"Author seems to repeat himself in this arabesque version of the discovery of the Americas, revisiting the cocoa plantations in the south of Bahia and filling them with pseudo-poets, this time reciting their verses in Arabic. Despite their Arab dress and names, Amado's depictions of Syrian and Lebanese nationals and their descendants, known rather generically as turcos in Brazil, seem too familiar, particularly during visits to Amado's established milieu of the whorehouse and its residents-for-life. Perhaps more important than this presentation of worn characters during the first quarter of the 20th century is Amado's introduction to the novel; here the reader glimpses Amado's viewpoint vis-à-vis such subjects as author's rights, editions, re-editions, among others"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas

Notes:

Title on prelim. pg. 2: A descoberta da América pelos turcos, ou, De como o árabe Jamil Bichara, desbravador de florestas, de visita à cidade de Itabuna para dar abasto ao corpo, ali lhe ofereceram fortuna e casamento, ou ainda, Os esponsais de Adma."

Other Format:

Online version: Amado, Jorge, 1912-2001. Descoberta da América pelos turcos.

ISBN:

8501041610

9788501041616

OCLC:

30948862