5 works by Rachel de Queiroz to meet the author

Rachel de Queiroz (1910 - 2003) was a Brazilian journalist, writer and translator, known mainly for romances and chronicles. However, his literary production was vast and also included theater pieces and infant-juvenile histories.

Part of the modernist movement, a northeastern foi uma pioneer figure: Além from being the first woman to join the Brazilian Academy of Letters, she was also the first woman to win or Prêmio Camões.

1. O Quinze (1930)

Rachel was born in Fortaleza, but her family had to move for some years, due to a devastating dry sequence. Logo na youth, the author began to perceive various social inequalities and began his political activity, militant for the Brazilian Communist Party.

In 1930, ten or ten years old, she was Or Quinze, his first romance, when he recovered from a lung doença. A work denounces the conditions of poverty and fosters lived hair Northeast povoduring the dry of 1915.

Accompanying the destiny of the cowboy Chico Bento and his family, a regionalist narrative that guarantees notoriety to the writer also follows the paixão lived between the cousins ​​Conceição and Vicente.

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2. As Três Marias (1939)

In a short time, Queiroz began to be persecuted for his ties to the national team and to be imprisoned. Also, in 1939, she ended up leaving for Rio de Janeiro, few of them had seen her books burned and prohibited from the repressive state.

Nesse anus, she crept As Três Marias, a romance focused on three female protagonists, associated with stars that make up the famous constellation: Maria Augusta, Maria da Glória and Maria José.

As young I know my internment of Freiras I created a great friend, but I ended up following quite different paths when I left the premises.

3. 100 Chronicles Escolhidas (1958)

An important facet of the author's work was her production as a journalist and chronicler, having been published for decades in the magazine Or Cruzeiro e no O State of S. Paul, between others.

Discussing some social themes, stories from the past and life in the Northeast, its chronicles also deal with various issues of artistic and cultural life of the time.

In 1958, it was launched at Coletânea de selected texts by the author that later viria to be titled Um Alpendre, Uma Rede, Um Açude.

4. Dôra, Doralina (1975)

As tempo, or political quadrant of Rachel de Queiroz mudou. Years after being abandoned or the Communist Party, a writer became a supporter of the 1964 military coup and a member of the Federal Council of Culture.

Dôra, Doralina tells the story of Maria das Dores, uma moça who lives on a fazenda in the interior of the Northeast, where she needs to comply with the rigorous orders of my day. A narrative accompanies or seu process of descoberta and sacrifice when he moves, traveling to Fortaleza and to Rio de Janeiro.

In 1977, after the launch of romance, Queiroz entered the Brazilian Academy of Letters, occupying Cadeira 5, and represented a remarkable victory for the women who created Brazil. Ha in 1982, Dôra, Doralina ganhou uma adaptation for o cinema directed by Perry Salles.

5. Maria Moura Memorial (1992)

82 years old, Rachel de Queiroz escreveu Maria Moura Memorial, one of his two most famous books, which was adapted by Rede Globo, in 1994, as a miniseries of the same name.

O romance follows the narrative of a northeastern mulher who lost me and precisely battle with family members pela herança: a site that fica na Serra dos Padres.

In the number of violence and territorial disputes, a guerreira begins to lead one side and defies all the conventions of the macho and patriarchal society.

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