Benny Profane
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Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881-1922), our "Sad Visionary", was an afro-brazilian writer who was born during an intese period of changes in Brazil.
As I said previosly:
Lima Barreto who was an alcoholic and suffered a lot with mental disorders was a victim of those changes.
His father was a notable man of Brazil Empire and the family lost everything with the swap of that government with intense persecutions by the fact of his family to be black.
Barreto had a libertarian verve but he was a moralist too in a monarchist way.
And about the book [The Tragic Fate of Policarpo Quaresma], well, it's very satirical, critical and almost nihilist with some peronal perceptions swaped with his characters.
For example, he criticized a lot the geist of Brazilian Armed Forces with the fact that they are flatterers of United States (the blueprint of Brazilian Republic's flag and governement was very similar than United States), positivists and boastful (the criticism of the use of Tupi, the original brazilian language, is very clear).
The key themes in his works are: racism, nihilism, pessimism, disfuctions of bureaucracy etc.
Works:
en.wikipedia.org
As I said previosly:
Lima Barreto who was an alcoholic and suffered a lot with mental disorders was a victim of those changes.
His father was a notable man of Brazil Empire and the family lost everything with the swap of that government with intense persecutions by the fact of his family to be black.
Barreto had a libertarian verve but he was a moralist too in a monarchist way.
And about the book [The Tragic Fate of Policarpo Quaresma], well, it's very satirical, critical and almost nihilist with some peronal perceptions swaped with his characters.
For example, he criticized a lot the geist of Brazilian Armed Forces with the fact that they are flatterers of United States (the blueprint of Brazilian Republic's flag and governement was very similar than United States), positivists and boastful (the criticism of the use of Tupi, the original brazilian language, is very clear).
The key themes in his works are: racism, nihilism, pessimism, disfuctions of bureaucracy etc.
Works:
- Recordações do Escrivão Isaías Caminha (1909)
- Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma (1911)
- As Aventuras do Dr. Bogoloff (1912)
- Numa e a Ninfa (1915)
- Vida e Morte de M. J. Gonzaga de Sá (1919)
- Histórias e Sonhos (1920)
- Os Bruzundangas (1923), póstumo
- Bagatelas (1923), póstumo
- Clara dos Anjos (1948), póstumo
- Diário Íntimo (1953), póstumo
- Feiras e Mafuás (1953), póstumo
- Marginália (1953), póstumo
- Vida Urbana (1953), póstumo
- Cemitério dos Vivos (1956), póstumo e inacabado
- Coisas do Reino de Jambon (1956), póstumo
- Impressões de Leitura (1956), póstumo
- Correspondência (1956), póstumo, 2 volumes
- O Subterrâneo do Morro do Castelo[nota 1] (1997), póstumo
- Sátiras e outras subversões: textos inéditos (2016), póstumo, organizado por Felipe Botelho Corrêa
