Érico Veríssimo (1905-1975) was a Brazilian writer from the second modernist phase, called the consolidation phase. Considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century, it received several...
The Guarani is one of the most outstanding works by the writer José de Alencar. This Indianist novel was published in 1857 during the first phase of Romanticism in Brazil. Structure of...
O Ateneu is a work by the writer Raul Pompeia (1863-1895) which was published in serials in 1888. It is part of the realist movement in Brazil, being one of the most important of the...
Castro Alves (1847-1871) was one of the last great poets of Romanticism in Brazil. His work represents, in the evolution of Brazilian romantic poetry, a moment of maturity and...
Casimiro de Abreu was one of the greatest poets of the second romantic generation in Brazil. This period was marked by themes related to love, disappointment and fear. He lived and wrote little, in the ...
Iracema is a work by the romantic writer from Ceará José de Alencar. Published in 1865, it is an Indianist novel, with the presence of indigenous, mythological and...
The Parnassian triad is how the group of three most prominent Brazilian Parnassian poets became known: Alberto Oliveira, Raimundo Correia and Olavo Bilac. Parnassianism is a school...
Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant is a work by the Brazilian writer Manuel Antônio de Almeida. Divided into 2 volumes and 48 titled chapters, it was published in 1854 during Romanticism in the...
“O Grande Sertão: Veredas”, published in 1956, is one of the most emblematic works of the Brazilian modernist writer João Guimarães Rosa and one of the most important in literature...
Capitães de Areia is a work by the Bahian writer Jorge Amado, published in 1937. It is a modern novel of social denunciation with the theme centered on the misery of street children. The name of...
Claro Enigma is a work composed of 42 poems. It dates from 1951 and is written by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, a Brazilian modernist writer. Inserted in the Third Phase of Modernism, known as...
Parnassianism was a literary movement that emerged in France at the end of the 19th century. Test your knowledge of this period with 10 questions commented by our teachers...
Poetry-Práxis, coined as the “old vanguard”, represented a literary movement founded by the critic and poet Mário Chamie. This denomination emerged in criticism of the avant-garde movement...
Jorge Amado was a journalist and one of the greatest representatives of modernist Brazilian literature, with a work marked by regionalism and social denunciation. He was the fifth occupant of seat 23 on the ...
Condoreirismo is the name of a trend in 18th century romantic literature. It is inserted in the third phase of Romanticism in Brazil (1870 to 1880), which became known as “Generation...
Macunaíma is one of the most important modernist novels in Brazilian literature, written by the Brazilian poet Mário de Andrade and published in 1928. The story has an epic character, and it's...
Mario Quintana, known as the “poet of simple things”, was a Brazilian modernist writer, journalist and translator. He is considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. In 1980, Mario...
Jorge de Lima, known as “the prince of Alagoas poets”, was a modernist writer. In addition, he worked as an artist, teacher and doctor. Belonging to the second phase of the...
Cora Coralina was a contemporary Brazilian poet and short story writer. A writer of simple things, she is considered one of the most important in the country. Biography Ana Lins dos Guimarães Peixoto...
Fagundes Varela was one of the greatest exponents of Brazilian poetry in the second generation of romanticism and Patron of Chair No. 11 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL). Biography of Fagundes...
Sousândrade (1833-1902) was a Brazilian writer and teacher belonging to the third generation of romanticism, also known as the confectioner generation. It stood out for its boldness and originality...
Aluísio de Azevedo was a Brazilian writer, precursor of the naturalist movement in Brazil. Founder of Chair No. 04 of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL), he served between 1897 and ...
A Moreninha is a novel by Brazilian writer Joaquim Manuel de Macedo and one of the greatest classics of Brazilian literature. It was published in 1844 during the first romantic generation in the...
Raul Pompeia was a Brazilian writer belonging to the realist and naturalist movement. In his life trajectory, he was a journalist, short story writer, columnist, novelist and orator. Your work more...
The poem process was an avant-garde artistic movement that took place in Brazil between 1967 and 1972, during the Military Dictatorship. It appeared in two capitals of the country simultaneously: Rio de Janeiro (RJ) and ...
Joaquim Manuel de Macedo was a Brazilian writer of the first romantic generation (1836–1852). She is considered one of the founders of the novel in Brazil, with her work entitled “A Moreninha”, ...
Lygia Fagundes Telles is a Brazilian modernist writer. She is part of the Paulista Academy of Letters (APL) and also of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL). In 2005, Lygia received the “Award...
Social poetry is a type of literary production that addresses issues of political and social value. In the history of Brazilian literature, some moments were essential for the propagation of...
The starting point for Prosa Realista in Brazil was 1881, with the publications of Posthumous Memoirs by Brás Cubas, by Machado de Assis, and O Mulato, by Aluísio Azevedo. This last one...
Junqueira Freire, patron of Chair No. 25 of the Academia Brasileira de Letras, was part of the second generation of romantic poets. Biography Luís José Junqueira Freire was born in Salvador in the...
Alphonsus de Guimaraens (1870-1921) was one of the most emblematic writers of the Symbolist movement in Brazil. This literary movement began with the publication of the work Missal e Broqueis de...
Manuel Antônio de Almeida was an important writer of the first Romantic generation, a phase marked by the nationalism-Indianism binomial. He was Patron of Chair No. 28 and still practiced...
Augusto dos Anjos, known as Poeta da Morte, was a Brazilian symbolist writer. He occupied chair No. 1 at the Academia Paraibana de Letras. Biography of Augusto dos Anjos Augusto de...
The armorial movement, which emerged in the 70s in Brazil, was an artistic-cultural aspect of valuing the popular arts of the Northeast. The main objective was to create Brazilian art...
Murilo Mendes was a Brazilian writer belonging to the second phase of modernism in Brazil. He is considered one of the most relevant Brazilian poets of the 20th century. Biography Murilo Monteiro...
The 1926 Regionalist Manifesto is one of the manifestos published in the First Phase of Modernism in Brazil (1922-1930). In addition, the following deserve mention: Manifesto da Poesia Pau-Brasil...
The language of premodernism is colloquial, simple, hybrid, libertarian, social, critical, regionalist, historical, political and marginal. Historical Context Pre-modernism in Brazil was a...
Love is the most common feeling among people. Because it is a timeless and inexplicable theme and, above all, because it goes through everyone, it could not be forgotten by poets, who have in this theme one of the...
Intimate prose (or psychological prose prose) is a literary style in which the emotions and feelings of the writer and characters in the work are reflected in the writing. In other words, the biggest focus...
Naturalist prose is the style that explores the slow, impersonal narrative, elaborated on details and the taking of an analytical and scientific posture. The author Aluísio de Azevedo (1857-1913) is the main...
Symbolism in Brazil began with the publication of the work Missal e Broquéis de Cruz e Souza in 1893. In addition to being a precursor of the movement, he was certainly one of the most emblematic writers of...
Manoel de Barros was a Brazilian modernist writer belonging to the third modernist generation, called “Geração de 45”. He is considered one of the greatest Brazilian poets, who was ...
The works of Romanticism take on different characteristics according to the stage to which they belong. This literary school is divided into three phases, which are mainly characterized by...
Ferreira Gullar was a poet, journalist, art critic and precursor of the neoconcrete movement in Brazil. Through an experimental, radical and engaged literature, Gullar is considered one of the...
Caio Fernando Abreu was a Brazilian writer and journalist, considered one of the greatest short story writers in the country. Owner of a timeless work, Caio was awarded three times by the “Jabuti Prize of...
Joaquim Nabuco represented one of the most important figures in the abolitionist movement in Brazil in favor of the liberation of slaves. He excelled in politics, literature, history and career...
Arcadism is a literary school that started in Europe. One of its main characteristics is its opposition to the Baroque, previous literary school. While Arcadianism presents...
Sagarana is a short story work by the Brazilian modernist writer João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967) which was published in 1946. Structure of the Sagarana Work brings together nine short stories: O Burrinho Pedrês A...
Carlos Heitor Cony (1926-2018) was an outstanding Brazilian journalist and writer. About his work, he left seventeen novels, short stories, chronicles, biographical essays, children's and a lot ...
Ultraromantismo is a current of the literary school of Romanticism in which the works are characterized by melancholy, escapism (escape from reality) and a taste for the morbid. This negative feeling that...
