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The Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story contains a selection of short stories by the best-known authors in Brazilian literature from the late nineteenth century to the present. With few exceptions, these stories have appeared in English translation, although widely separated in time and often published in obscure journals. Here they are united in a coherent edition representing Brazil's modern, vibrant literature and culture. J.M. Machado de Assis, who first perfected the genre, wrote at least sixty stories considered to be masterpieces of world literature. Ten of his stories are included here, and are accompanied by strong and diverse representations of the contemporary story in Brazil, featuring nine stories by Clarice Lispector and seven by João Guimarães Rosa. The remaining 34 authors include Mário de Andrade, Graciliano Ramos, Osman Lins, Dalton Trevisan, and other major names whose stories in translation exhibit profound artistry.
The anthology is divided into four major periods, "Tropical Belle-Époque," "Modernism," "Modernism at Mid-Century," and "Contemporary Views." There is a general introduction to Brazilian literary culture and introductions to each of the four sections, with descriptions of the authors and a general bibliography on Brazil and Brazilian literature in English. It includes stories of innovation (Mário de Andrade), psychological suspense (Graciliano Ramos), satire and perversion (Dalton Trevisan), altered realities and perceptions (Murilo Rubião), repression and sexuality (Hilda Hilst, Autran Dourado), myth (Nélida Piñón), urban life (Lygia Fagundes Telles, Rubem Fonescal), the oral tale (Jorge Amado, Rachel de Queiroz) and other overarching themes and issues of Brazilian culture. The anthology concludes with a haunting story set in the opera theater in Manaus by one of Brazil's most recently successful writers, Milton Hatoum.
Contents
INTRODUCTION: World World Vast World of the Brazilian Short Story
PART I
Tropical Belle Epoque (1880s-1921)
ASSIS, JOAQUIM MARIA MACHADO DE (1839-1908):
Wedding Song
The Siamese Academies
The Fortune Teller
Life
The Nurse
The Secret Heart
A Woman's Arms
Dona Paula
Father versus Mother
Wallow, Swine!
VERISSIMO, JOSE (1857-1916):
Going after Rubber
Returning from Rubber Gathering
MELLO, EMILIA MONCORVA BANDEIRA DE:
(PSEUD. CARMEN DOLORES) (1852-1910):
Aunt Zeze's Tears
BARRETO, PAULO (PSEUD. JOAO DO RIO) (1881-1921):
The Baby in Rose Tarlatan
An Episode in a Hotel
LIMA BARRETO, AFFONSO H. DE (1881-1922):
The Man Who Knew Javanes
LOBATO, MONTEIRO (1882-1948):
The Funnyman Who Repented
PART II
Modernisn (1922-1945)
ANDRADE, MARIO DE (1893-1945):
It Can Hurt Plenty
The Christmas Turkey
MACHADO, ANIBAL (1895-1964):
The Death of the Standard-Bearer
The First Corpse
MACHAD0, ANTONIA DE ALCANTARA (1901-1935):
The Beauty Contest
Gaetaninho
ALPHONSUS, JOAO (1901-1935):
Sardanapalo
ACCIOLY, BRENO (1922-1966):
Joao Urso
RAMOS, GRACILIANO (1892-1953):
The Thief
Whale
AMADO, JORGE (1912-2000):
How Porciuncula the Mulatto Got the Corpse off His Back
QUIEROZ, RACHEL DE (1910-2003):
Metonymy, or The Husband's Revenge
REBELO, MARQUES (1907-1973):
Down Our Street
Verissimo, Erico (1905-1975):
Fandango
The Guerilla
The House of the Melancholy Angel
PART III
Modernism at Mid-Century
LISPECTOR, CLARICE (1920-1977):
The Buffalo
The Chicken
The Smallest Woman in the World
The Breaking of the Bread
The Fifth Story
Miss Algrave
The Body
Plaza Maua
Beauty and the Beast, or The Wound Too Great
GUIMARAES ROSA, JOAO (1908-1967):
The Girl From Beyond
Much Ado
Soroco, His Mother, His Daughter
The Third Bank of the River
Treetops
Those Lopes
The Jaguar
LINS, OSMAN (1924-1978):
Baroque Tale or Tripartite Unity
Easter Sunday
TREVISAN, DALTON (B. 1925):
The Corpse in the Parlor
The Vampire of Curitiba
GOMES, PAULO EMILIO SALLES (1916-1977):
Her Times Two
ANDRADE, CARLOS DRUMMOND DE (1902-1987):
Miguel's Theft
PART IV
Contemporary Visions (after 1980)
PINON, NELIDA (B. 1936):
Big-Bellied Cow
Brief Flower
TELLES, LYGIA FAGUNDES (B. 1923):
Just a Saxaphone
RUBIAO, MURILO (1916-1981):
Zacarias, the Pyrotechnist
VEIGA, J.J (1915-1999):
The Misplaced Machine
SCLIAR, MOACYR (B. 1937):
The Cow
The Last Poor Man
DOURADO, AUTRAN (B. 1926):
Bald Island
Lessa, Origenes (1903-1986):
Marta: A Souvenir of New York
FONSECA, RUBEM (B. 1925):
Large Intestine
CONY, CARLOS HEITOR (B. 1926):
Order of the Day
RAWET, SAMUEL (1929-1984):
The Prophet
HILST, HILDA (1930-2004):
Agda
GIUDICE, VICTOR (1934-1997):
The File Cabinet
STEEN, EDLA VAN (B. 1936):
Caril head Lina heart
ABREU, CAIO FERNANDO (1948-1996):
Dragons...
HATOUM, MILTON (B. 1952):
The Truth Is a Seven-Headed Animal
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX
