7 major works of Lima Barreto explained

Sad fim by Policarpo Quaresma It is the most famous work of the writer Lima Barreto (1881-1922).

However, this genre of pre-modernist Brazilian literature also created other great titles that became classics in our literature such as Clara dos Anjos and Recordações do Escrivão Isaías.

1. Sad fim by Policarpo Quaresma (1911)

Published in 1911, no Jornal do Comércio, in the form of a folhetim, Sad fim by Policarpo Quaresma Virou finally released in 1915.

O protagonist of the history and Policarpo Quaresma, um homem comum, civil servant, more than nurturing deeply nationalist sentiments.

Acting as undersecretary of the Arsenal of War, Policarpo declares that his ideological convictions façam more and more of his life. He learns tupi-guarani (which suggests turning to the official language), only national authors, want to learn to play as modinhas no violão and cultivate typically Brazilian plants.

This radicalism will cause Polycarp to become a homem more and more solitary, ridiculed by those who are in love with him and zombified by his fanaticism.

By failing to confine himself to society, Policarpo ends up suffering severe consequences.

Além to offer for the reader a curious and interesting story, a work of Lima Barreto faz uma severe social criticism the context in which it was inserted. The author criticizes social inequality and government abandonment that, despite charging high taxes, was omitted due to poverty where a huge part of it was immense.

Because of this intricate labyrinth of streets and bibocas, a large part of the population of the city lives, whose existence or governo dated os olhos, embora lhe copper atrocious imposts, engaged in works inúteis and sumptuous our pontos do Rio de Janeiro

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2. Clara dos Anjos (1922)

Clara dos Anjos It was the last book written by Lima Barreto. Or work, completed not yet his death (1922), was released much later, just in 1948.

Or romance is mainly about do racism e do place da mulher na sociedade Preconceituosa carioca of the beginning of the XX century.

The main person here is Clara dos Anjos, a poor 16-year-old girl who lives in Rio de Janeiro. Filha de um carteiro as a housewife, a moça fell into the charms of Cassi, a musician, a white man, a writer.

The girl is engraved and leaves the logo to follow, leaving Clara helpless with a baby no ventre. As a lot of support to young people, she has been given a few years of her marginalized condition of her: poor, mestiça, more single and socially excluded.

A work traça a portrait from its time of her and courageously denounces a series of thorny subjects that customarily be socially abused.

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3. Recordações do Escrivão Isaías Caminha (1909)

Despite ter published Recordações do Escrivão Isaías Caminha In 1909, due to the abolition of the escravatura, Lima Barreto was a testament to a society that was extremely preconceived and was little receptive to black years.

A history told is not free, it passes not suburb of Rio de Janeiro, as a panorama from the background to poverty, the inhabitants of the suburban region and the relationships that the people go through. On the other hand, the romance also portrays Lima Barreto's intellectuais do tempo, facing a frontal criticism for being vain, messy, corrupt, hypocritical and only thinking not proper to be.

Mulatto, or protagonist Isaías, who is immersed in the context of working on the writing of a large wage, is condemned to a certain limiting social position despite his enormous culture.

As a position of continuous non-wage O Globo, Isaías desires, above all, to grow in life, to ascend professionally, nem that for isso it is necessary to sacrifice some two serious principles and ideas of him. Ambitious, or personagem, he is navigating according to the sea, trying to find a space that he has to occupy in the newsroom.

Or romance, which is a beautiful portrait of the time in which Lima Barreto lives, shows us how racial preconception Isaías condemned, or transforming into something that he was not originally-modifying or his character trying to adapt to the reality in which he was inserted.

Likewise, as the protagonist of the story, or writer Lima Barreto sought to rise professionally and faced similar racial barbarians as his protagonist Isaías. To accredit his meritocracy, Lima Barreto - who was the filho of a typographer as a libertarian escrava - was extremely frustrated with the functioning of the society.

Recordações do Escrivão Isaías Caminha It is a rich source for you to want to know more about the social and cultural life of Rio de Janeiro, not the beginning of the 20th century.

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4. Numa e a Nymph (1915)

A history of Numa e Ninfa It was written in just 25 days after Lima Barreto left Hospício, in October 1914. Published in the format of a leaflet, no year 1915, no wage A noite, the work was transformed into book in 1917.

At the time it was published or released as a subtitle "Romance da vida conteorânea", denouncing Vontade de Lima Barreto wrote about a society in which he was immersed in the period in which he viveu.

O romance tells the story of Numa Pompílio de Castro, who was born a humble family and was formed, with effort, directly. Moved by financial interests, he married Edgarda Cogominho, an important woman from Senator Neves Cogominho.

After getting into a good family, he was elected deputed as a help from the sogro. All that Numa was conquering life was through indications and influences, never by her own merit. A critical work of Lima Barreto himself, who aspired to a society that precedes meritocracy.

Despite not working for the first year and half of the mandate, Numa enfim reached the deserved fame of fazer of a brilliant speech in parliament. From then on, more and more exceptional speeches follow each other, nenhum written by Numa. Or that no one knew was that, presumably, what was the secret of his speeches was to a woman, a cultured Edgarda, who passed on to make interventions each time more memories for her husband. And so Numa was gaining more and more social recognition.

Numa reviravolta unexpectedly, Numa finally discovers that the speeches entrusted to a woman were written by the lover of his wife, or cousin Benevenuto.

Depois da uncovered, Numa fica entered the cross and the sword because it depended at the end of the lover of the wife to maintain the image that Faziam gave:

He was or cousin... Eles se beijavam, deixando de beijar, escreviam. These sheets of paper were written by him and passed the logo to Limpo Pela Mulher. Was he then? Was it not her? What devia fazer? A carreira... or prestige... senator... President... Pray balls! E Numa turned, vaguely, but stopped, stopped or read, where he always slept peacefully.

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5. Or cemetery two alive (1956)

To unfinished work Or cemetery two alive It was built on the basis of annotations that Lima Barreto was admitted when he was admitted to the National Hospital of Alienados do Rio de Janeiro between 1914 and 1919.

Estou no Hospício ou, melhor, in various dependencies of the, from or day 25 of the last month. Estive no pavilhão de observações, which is a previous stage of fire, like us, enters here for more of the police. Throw us to roupa that we trace and give us an outra, only capable of charging nudez, and nem chinelos or tamancos give us.

It's about a text Muito linked to the biography of the author e is loaded with sauce. Em Or cemetery two alive We see a portrait of how the society treats those who were attacked by mental health.

O livro is quite critical of how the social environment lives both from a medical and human point of view as psychiatric patients interned in asylum.

Or free Or cemetery two alive It is found in the public domain and can be read free of charge.

6. Intimate diary (1953)

Intimate diary é um livro that drinks a lot of the biography of the writer faking about his condition of intellectual of him not Rio de Janeiro context, about the racial preconceptions that he faced and about his luta com a doença psychiatric.

Apart from telling his own personal costume, in an intimate diary we see a photograph of Rio de Janeiro da sua geração, tendo Lima Barreto raised a true record of the social, political and cultural panorama at the time that he viveu.

The author addresses, for example, the present misery of the Fluminense population and the abyss between the classes You socialize with a well-endowed bourgeoisie that dominates the city in proportion to the deprived population, it was successively bad treated:

The narrative that dates back to 1904. To the police they are repaying torto and to direct people that they found on the street. He collected the delegations, together with the Central Police. There, violently, humbly, snatching up the shoes of the shoes and the empurrava in the large patio. Together that fossem a few dozen, he tucked in to ilha das Cobras, where they were surreptitiously.

7. Vida e morte by M.J. Gonzzaga de Sá (1919)

Second or Intimate diary, Lima Barreto começou to escrever Vida e morte de M.J. Gonzaga de Sá Ainda no princípio da carreira, in 1906 (despite the first published in 1919).

Or narrator-personagem dessa historia é Augusto Machado, who guides us through twelve independent chapters. O romance addresses two dislocated characters (Augusto Machado and Gonzaga de Sá), who work together and do not adapt to or where they are. The colleagues of public distribution are testemunhas of the Brazilian bureaucracy.

Inmates and solitaries, you two friends pass or go free commenting on the life of the city of Rio de Janeiro, which was modernized not in the beginning of the 20th century.

Through the olhar of Augusto Machado and Gonzaga de Sá or leitor meets melhor a city, you are social parents, you politicians of the time as or Barão do Rio Branco, for example:

face of Rio de Janeiro to its face… It does not give satisfaction to any… Julga-it grows from the Constitution and the leis

Lima Barreto comments on various aspects of Rio's urban daily life from a bureaucracy to ethical dilemmas that people face every day.

To work Vida e morte de M.J. Gonzaga de Sá find-it is available for download.