Jorge Amado: writer's works and biography

Jorge Amado is considered one of two great names in national literature.

A Bahian writer has a vast production of stories and romances that he values ​​the particularities of the Brazilian poor, especially the black and northeastern population.

He also contributed to the construction of our own cultural identity, always placing in his narratives the social questions of his interest.

Some of his stories were adapted for television and cinema, favoring that his ficas production be further understood.

A writer is also recognized as an outsider, being one of the two best-selling Brazilian authors all over the world.

Works by Jorge Amado

Jorge Amado's career was quite long. By having started writing ainda young man, for 70 years dedicated, among other interests, to literature.

Jorge was responsible for the creation of many narratives, I have 32 books published. Desses, many foram translated in 49 languages ​​and sold in 55 countries.

Assim, he became the second most successful Brazilian writer in other countries, behind only Paulo Coelho.

Year of publication	Construction site	Commentary
1931	Or carnival country	A portrait of a youth two years 30 in Bahia.
1933	Cacau	Work strongly committed to a social cause.
1934	Sweat	A naturalist, he addresses the inequalities and struggles for a better world.
1934	Jubiaba	It represents a leap of maturity in its production, being acknowledged not outside.
1936	Dead Sea	Written in 15 days, it tells about marinheiros, fishermen and others who live from the sea.
1937	Areia captains	Foi collected hair governed and burned in public praça. Depois becomes a success.
1941	ABC by Castro Alves	A biography of Castro Alves in lyrical tom.
1942	Or cavaleiro gives hope	A light on Luís Carlos Prestes and Coluna Prestes.
1943	Terras do sem fim	Discorre on the lutas and dominated terraces pela produção de cacau.
1944	São Jorge dos Ilhéus	Complementary work of Terras do sem fim.
1944	Bahia de Todos os Santos	A portrait of Salvador in the 1940s.
1944	O love of the soldier	It deals with the life of Castro Alves and his abolitionist atuação.
1946	Seara vermelha	A history of a family of retired Northeast Indians to São Paulo ..
1951	Or world gives peace	It narrates about the journey in the lands of the Soviet Union and the implantation of socialism.
1953	Gabriela, cravo and canela	A work of major success, it was spent years 20 in the Ilhéus region.
1954	The underground gives freedom	Nessa work or author takes up Luta do povo against a ditadura do Estado Novo.
1961	A morte de Quincas Berro D'Agua	It tells the story of Joaquim, a 50-year-old homem who revolts-coms his tedious life and transforms-not a rogue Quincas.
1961	Os velhos marinheiros	Tell the story of a homem that herda a herança and the same know how to navigate, embarks on a long voyage.
1964	You shepherds da noite	Three stories that contam on or poor business and mestiço na Bahia.
1966	Dona Flor and her husbands	A woman who married again continued to be in the presence of her deceased husband.
1969	Tenda dos Milagres	Following the own author: "This is a reflection on the formation of Brazilian nationality, which shows the importance of mixing and fighting against racism in Brazil."
1972	Tereza Batista tired of war	She tells Tereza's sophisticated costume and feminine resistance in an extremely hostile environment.
1976	O Malhado cat and andorinha Sinhá	In 1948 Jorge created this children's book for his filho, which was lost for a long time, and was published for 30 years.
1977	Tieta do Agreste	About the transformations that occurred in Bahia in the 70's. It narrates the story of a mulher who, depois de sair do interior baiano, returns completely changed.
1979	Farda fardão nightwear	The background is the intellectualized and literary sphere of Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s.
1981	O menino grapiúna	Autobiographical romance about a writer's childhood.
1984	To ball and or to goleiro	Children's book.
1984	Tocaia Grande	He tells about the formation of a vilarejo, with his personalities and dilemmas.
1988	O sumiço de santa: a story of feitiçaria	Recheated narrative of black and African cultural elements.
1992	Cabotagem navigation	Aos 80 years Jorge Amado reenacts his life and creates this autobiography.
1992	A descoberta gives America Turkish hairs	It tells about the Arab migrants in Baianas territories and their influences in the Cacau cycle.
1997	Or miracle two pass you by	It transforms an orality of a known "cause" of betrayal not in the Northeast in the literary context.

Branding personagens

Some books of the writer have been transformed into novels, films and theater pieces. Then, there will be more success and some people will become marks of his work.

Gabriela

Gabriela, cravo and canela Foi o first romance by Jorge Amado adapted for the audiovisual. On April 14, 1975, it was Gabriela, novel by Rede Globo. Its last chapter was shown on October 24 of the same year.

The main personage was interpreted by Sônia Braga and fez a huge success, permeating or imagining the people at that time.

Dona Flor and her two husbands

Go to work Dona Flor and her two husbands It was transformed into a film in 1976, directed by Bruno Barreto.

A production focuses on the comic character of history, featuring Dona Flor, also lived by Sônia Braga, who died husband Vadinho, played by José Wilker, and current husband, or pharmacist Dr. Teodoro Madureira, feito by Mauro Mendonça.

You also have other versions of the history on television and theater, size or recognition and identification of the public as characters.

Tieta do Agreste

Novel Tieta, based on Tieta do AgresteIt was not registered between August 14, 1989 to March 31, 1990. A history, based on Tieta do AgresteShe tells about a woman in the interior of Bahia that she is escaped from home by her country, that she does not oil her behavior free of her.

Assim, Tieta goes to São Paulo and becomes an influential cafeteria and diner. When she returns to a small city, she faces the same hypocrisy and conservatism of 25 years ago.

Betty Faria eternalized a personage with a strong and determined interpretation.

You can also be interested in: Livro Capitães da Areia, by Jorge Amado.

Biography of Jorge Amado

You first years

No day, August 10, 1912, Jorge Leal Amado de Faria came to the world. Born in a fazenda in the city of Itabuna, south of Bahia, Jorge Amado was the son of a cocoa producer, or a farmer João Amado de Faria, his mother was Eulália Leal Amado.

Before completing two years of life, he moved to live with a family in Ilhéus, escaping from a variety of variola. Or menino then he made his studies in Salvador.

Training and involvement with literature

For two 14 years he has been involved in writing in the universe of literature, working in a local printing press. It helps to found what became known as "Academia dos Rebeldes", a collective of young writers willing to Trazer freshness and renovation for Bahian literature and whose texts were published in magazines created by them.

In 1928, Jorge moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he entered the Direito da Universidade do Rio de Janeiro course, training-advocated, a profession that he never exercised. It is not a university environment that Jorge has great debates and reflections on politics and art, approaching communist ideology.

Seu first light, Or carnival country, it was launched in 1931. Two years ago, to work Cacau It has been published with few exemplars, which are published in little more than one month.

Nessa time Jorge married-se with Matilde Garcia Rosa, how he produced a book for the public child chamado Uncovered the world. Da união com Matilde is born her first filha, who will die as a young man, 14 years old.

Literary consolidation and participation in politics

Published in 1935 to work Jubiata, celebrated internationally.

Due to your political involvement as the ideias da esquerda e su affiliação ao PCB (Brazilian Communist Party), or A writer is persecuted and forced to exile himself, living in various countries such as Argentina, Uruguay, the Czech Republic and França. By chance, he meets various intellectuals, such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Pablo Picasso.

He returned to Brazil in 1942, when he was imprisoned under the government of Getúlio Vargas. In 1945 he married-also writer Zélia Gattai in the following year and elected federal deputy in São Paulo under the Brazilian Communist Party. He served or held office for two years, when he was persecuted again and went into exile, returning to the country in 1952.

It is important to note that its political participation was important for the creation of some measures that favor popular autonomy, such as freedom from religious worship, read in force at this page.

Years 50 and 60: a creation of classic works

A distance writer-communist militancy began in 1955 and began to dedicate himself exclusively to literature. In the 50s and 60s Jorge escreve his most emblematic romances, such as Gabriela, Cravo e Canela, A morte de Quincas Berro D'Água and Dona Flor and her two husbands.

At this time, he strengthened his commitment to African-based religions, being decorated, not candomblé, as Obá de Xangô do Axé Opô Afonjá.

In April 1961, he joined the Brazilian Academy of Letters, occupying Cadeira 23, which had been occupied by Machado de Assis. In 1966 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

For the following decades, some of Jorge Amado's histories formed on television and cinema. A more famous foi Gabriela, Cravo e Canela, released in 1975 by TV Globo.

Two years 80 years 2000

In the 80's and 90's, the writer also published other works, launching in 1992 an auto-biography, Cabotagem Navigation. His last book was born in 1997, Or miracle two Passaros.

Jorge Amado died in 2001, four days before reaching 89 years of age, due to cardiorespiratory complications. His body was cremated and the cinzas buried in his house, in Salvador, along with the cinzas of Zélia Gattai, who died in 2008.

Characteristics of the production of Jorge Amado

Jorge Amado was a very committed writer with social cause e to fight against oppression. Due to his involvement with humanitarian values ​​and with the policy of skeleton, his production has a huge influence on his death.

At the same time, Jorge considered writing a ferramenta of social transformation, producing many works that make clear his idea of ​​a new world. He also escolheu give the stage to his humble life, counting his lutas, anseios and mazelas.

Outra marking characteristic in his books and his theory regionalist. Jorge disagrees about the life of povo baiano and do povo negro com propriedade. Além disso el traça narrativas de maneira colloquial, using simple words and thermos.

Another writer managed to unite fictional histories of lyricism with important historical events.

Quanto à schola liteária, we can enquadrar or writer as belonging to second generation modernist It gives Brazilian literature, in which neo-realist and regional elements stand out.