An inventor of modernist narratives, Machado de Assis is said to anticipate features of Proust, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot...

Brazilian literature general?
If so, then I'll shill this nigga a bit.

>Dá-me através de cânticos, de rezas,/O Bem, que almas acerbas torna ilesas.
>O Vinho douro, ideal, que purifica/das seivas juvenis a força rica.
>Ah! Faz surgir, que brote e que floreça/A Vinha douro e o vinho resplandeça.
>Pela Graça imortal dos teus Reinados/Que a vinha os frutos desabroche iriados.
>Que frutos, flores essa Vinha brote/Do céu sobre o estrelado chamalote.
>Que a luxúria poreje de áureos cachos/E eu um vinho de sol beba aos riachos.

Brazilian black writers must scare /pol/acks. If they understood Portuguese they would understand the skill these dudes have. Not to mention that slavery ended in Brazil in 1888, Machado was born in 1839.

Look at pic related.

Machado wouldn't be considered black in Brazil though. They used different racial categories to the anglo countries.

Machado de Assis is legit one of the greatest writers ever.

Best dedication ever written.

in english plz, this site was made in America, if you cant speak American, you can leave

This is now a brazilian Veeky Forums thread.

"O quadro de aflições que me consomem
O próprio Pedro Américo não pinta...
Para pintá-lo, era preciso a tinta
Feita de todos os tormentos do homem!

[...]

Melancolia! Estende-me a tu'asa!
És a árvore em que devo reclinar-me...
Se algum dia o Prazer vier procurar-me
Dize a este monstro que eu fugi de casa! "

And:

"Eu, filho do carbono e do amoníaco,
Monstro de escuridão e rutilância,
Sofro, desde a epigênese da infância,
A influência má dos signos do zodíaco."

To the maggot that first ate of my dead flesh I dedicate as a sad remembrance these posthumous memories.
Something like that.

come to brasil

>Brazillian literature
>Literally just Machado, br Céline, Graciliano, Lispector and br Zola.
Honestly, we shouldn't actually be proud of this.

What else is there to be proud of? Poor modern education, slums, ridiculously high crime rates, despicable government officials: all that doesn't leave a whole lot to be proud of. Let Brazilians pride themselves with the few literary masters they once had.

You forgot Paulo Coelho, Olavo de Carvalho and Lobão.

Augusto dos Anjos is edgy as fuck

Yes, he would. In fact, he is.

Who is your joyce?
Guimaraes rosa or something?

yeah

Yeah, thinking about it, that comparison is pretty much spot on.

Makes me happy seeing Machado here.

For other portuguese speaking gentlemen lurking, I recommend the brazillian Bukowski: Reinaldo Moraes. Read "Umidade" (short stories) or "Pornopopeia" (awesome pornographic epic).

Don't mind the monoglot mongoloids dissing Machado. They're sad for being stuck to english.

(As I would if couldn't read Hawthorne, Elliot, Blake and Hemingway in the originals).

You could put a Hemingway novel through google translate and not lose anything.

you clearly don't know his ouevre well enough, check Lamento das Coisas and his three Sonetos ao Pai

Been there, done that. It's not the same brah.

>not euclides da cunha

Blacks should stop trying to appropriate Machado. He hated his mulatto heritage and tried his hardest to assimilate into white, European culture, just like other African-Brazilians of the XIXth century.

When he died and was called a mulatto by the press, one of his friends, Joaquim Nabuco, said the following:

>"Your article in the newspaper is beautiful, but that phrase made me shudder: "A mulatto, he was, in fact, a Greek of the best time". I would not have called him a mulatto, and I think nothing would hurt him more than this. I urge you to remove this when you reduce the articles to permanent pages. The worst is not literary and is pejorative, just see the egymology. Machado for me was a white man, and I believe that he became one; when there was strange blood, it did not affect his perfect Caucasian character. At least I only saw the Greek in him. Our poor friend, so sensitive, would prefer forgetfulness to glory with the wantonness about its origins"

You just raised the chance of someone here actually reading him by 60%.

and Rubem Fonseca, Lima Barreto, Guimaraes, Jorge Amado. For such a big population, maybe you should have even more great writers, but what you have is still great.
>Coelho
Please don´t

>Ovalo de Carvalho
Epá, eu percebo o amor que os brasileiros têm por idiotas como Guimarães Rosa; mas pelo estúpido de o Olavo? Volta para o brchan e leva contigo a versão gasta do Nando Moura.

>No Euclides da Cunha
>No Guimarães Rosa
>No Jorge Amado
>No Hilda Hilst
>No Raduan Nassar
>No Antonio Callado
>No Rubem Fonseca

l a u g h a b l e

Something about the hyperdescent of Latin America is so fascinating to me.

Jorge Amado foi um lixo comunista que escrevia o que o Partidão mandava, não sei por que o levam a sério.

Although part of me respect Rubem for what he was trying, and for hooking me up to books when I was young, I can't honestly put him near Raduan, Hilst or even Euclides. Jorge Amado is just 'meh'.

Eu outra vez, E até fico ofendido pelos brasileiros por teres enunciado o Paulo Coelho como um dos Grandes. Vai para a real puta que pariu, filho de trinta putas.

Calma jovem, eu acho que ele estavas a tirar uma.

I suspect that user posted that in jest

Olavo não é estúpido. Estúpidos são os intelectuais "oficiais" tipo Emir Sader, Marilena Chauí, Vladimir Safatle etc

Olavo pode falar algumas merdas, por conta da overdose de redpills que ele tomou ao longo dos anos, mas a 80% do que ele diz tem valor e está correto

Pues que sea comunista o no, no le quita lo buen escritor. He aprendido a ignorar las opiniones políticas de los escritores que me gustan.

>Not reading someone due to their political affiliations

I'm a leftist and love Celine and Hamsun is literally one of my favourite writers. Also, I don't remember who exactly, but there was an author involved with integralism who Jorge Amado personally interceded in favor with some university, because he wasn't a retarded cuck.

I honestly haven't read him in a while, and I'm afraid I won't like him as much as when I was a kid, but I can sorta see you're probably right.

lmao.

>be me
>working at a public library
>gentleman comes asking for "le aleph"
>I know he means Borges
>"oh, that amazing book from paulo coelho?"
>linklaugh.jpg
>guy turns yellow
>"can I talk to your boss?"

no, he's a pardo. Obama wouldn't be considered "black" in Brazil either.

Here comes "this guy"

Estás a confundir senso comum ganhado por ele ser de origens humildes e ainda ter ligações a essa humildade com pensamento crítico e racional. Intelectual era o Éneas Carneiro, esse sim. Quem me dera que Portugal tivesse a oportunidade de ter um Éneas. Grande Homem e Grande Pessoa.

I believe these communist writers did terrible damage to the country, with his books portraying criminals as heroes and agents of the law as villains, they have normalized a climate of disrespect with the law, and enshrined the criminal element as a victim of society instead of abusive thug, which is partly responsible for the 60,000 yearly homicides of the country.

Jorge Amado began his literaly career with a book glamourizing street criminals. He did it at the behest of the Comintern, which during the 1930s ordered the Brazilian Communist Party to develop alliances with criminals in order to enlist them as revolutionary army.

It doesn't matter how talented a writer is, I can't respect them if they sell their pen like this for a subversive and morally repugnant cause, and Jorge Amado isn't even that good anyway so that such crimes could be forgiven.

>Quando sua Pepsi não vem com fetos

>Enéas
>muh nióbio

>Jorge Amado isn't even that good

my dude it's VERY clear you haven't read a thing by him, I was just reading a book from his in which the soldiers are all heroic partisans while the outlaws are a bunch of rapists sanctioned by a corrupt senator (you're now gonna tell me these never existed in Brazil and commies invented them, right)

>Pessoa com carácter
>mau
>LULA PRESIDENTE E BOLSOMITO VICE, VLW CARA? BLZ
Tu, e pessoas como tu, são a razão pelo qual o teu país tem sido altamente MAL governado nas últimas décadas. Reza para que o Lula não ganhe em 2018.

Bêbado fodido, peão analfabeto > profissional respeitadíssimo com formação acadêmica em diversas áreas

Oooh, that's who McGuane was talking about, any recs?

The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is his greatest work

That's a typo.
He means Dom Casmurro.

Learn Portuguese if you don't speak it and read Dom Casmurro.

>Something about the hyperdescent of Latin America is so fascinating to me.
Would someone say the same if they went on a road trip to all the walmarts in America?

The wild multiplication of the masses + industrial abundance + hot sun + fat asses =

>which is partly responsible for the 60,000 yearly homicides of the country.
How do you know the government isnt responsible for those? Because if 60,000 more people stayed living a year, the economy would break in the country? So they grind those people up and feed them to the people in prison and old folks homes?

This is bullshit.
First thing: Brazilian naturalism is shit, O Cortiço, supposedly to be the most important book of the genre is just shit. Sure there are some good parts, specially when the Cortiço wakens up, it reminded me of the coal mines in Geminal by Zola but it is about that, Aluísio de Azevedo can't be compared with Zola. His naturalism fails much more than naturalism (I reccomend you to read criticism on it, I like Huysmans thoughts on it, but you are a dumb guy and won't)

Second thing, if you want consistently good brazilian literature you'll have to look at the northeast. The only place that managed to absorb the iberic influence and merge it with the african and native brazilian culture in a organic and more natural way, far from the Macunaíma and the caricature of brazilian culture portrayed not only by Mário de Andrade but other modernists.

Who is Graciliano Ramos, Guimarães Rosa, José Lins do Rego?

And if you look at poetry, there is so many great authors.
Only from Rio de Janeiro there is:
Jorge de Lima, Cecília Meireles and Vinicius de Moraes.
And then there are other great authors such as Carlos Drummond and Manuel Bandeira (again northeast master race).
And this is only 20th century brazilian poetry.
And now, who is Gonçalves Dias and Castro Alves? And Augusto dos Anjos?
You know who can compare to these three?
Wordsworth, Blake and W. Whitman, there is Donne too... And even then I'd choose the brazilians in a heart beat.
(though I must add that the 20th century poetry in english is superior to the brazilian poetry at the same time)

BR user, you don't deserve our literature.

Go back to Paulo Freire and be brainwashed with what was left of our superior education.

Before you say a shit thing such as
>muh our universities
I ask you, who are the heirs of Gilberto Freyre and Miguel Reale?

Just shut the fuck up and learn literature before you say shit things like that.
I could keep talking about the greatness of our literature but you are too much of a uncultured swine and does not deserves my help.

Cool thanks man, gonna check out those names I don't know

>Hawthorne
>worth reading

Fuck outta here.

>northeast
funfact: the most interesting brasilian things are from the north. The south is an european wannabe meme.

>european wannabe meme.
check the Movimento Armorial whose leader was Ariano Suassuna and the manifestations of it in the northeast culture.

(For the non-portuguese speakers: google Armorial Movement

it seems they don't like capoeira .

Cabral de Melo Neto was a great admirer of Sterne