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Brazil
Alexis Levitin
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Description for Brazil
Paperback. A collection of forty stories drawn from all corners of Brazil: the Amazon, the Northeast, the Central West, and the South, as well as from Brazil's two dominant cities, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Editor(s): Levitin, Alexis. Series: Traveler's Literary Companion. Num Pages: 256 pages, Maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; DQ; FYB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 274.
This vital collection is as eclectic and electric as Brazil itself. These stories -- ranging from vignettes, sketches, and prose poems to traditional narratives -- cover a wide geography, physically, thematically, and stylistically. Tales of nature and magic, humor and tragedy, brutality and delicacy, sex and violence are played out against every corner of this vast and diverse land: the Amazon, the Northeast, the Central West, and the South, as well as in Brazil's two metropolises, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The earliest story, Machado de Assis' "The Wallet," was written at the end of the nineteenth century. The ... Read more
This vital collection is as eclectic and electric as Brazil itself. These stories -- ranging from vignettes, sketches, and prose poems to traditional narratives -- cover a wide geography, physically, thematically, and stylistically. Tales of nature and magic, humor and tragedy, brutality and delicacy, sex and violence are played out against every corner of this vast and diverse land: the Amazon, the Northeast, the Central West, and the South, as well as in Brazil's two metropolises, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The earliest story, Machado de Assis' "The Wallet," was written at the end of the nineteenth century. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Whereabouts Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Traveler's Literary Companion
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
San Francisco, United States
ISBN
9781883513214
SKU
V9781883513214
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About Alexis Levitin
Alexis Levitin is a recipient of two NEA translation fellowships and two Fulbright Lectureships, as well as residencies at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre, The European Translators Collegium in Germany, and The Ford Foundation retreat at Bellagio, Italy. His translations have appeared in more than two hundred magazines, including Kenyon Review, New England Review, Partisan Review, Prairie Schooner, New ... Read more
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