Memórias Sentimentais de João Miramar
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Memórias Sentimentais de João Miramar is a 1924 novel
by Brazilian
writer Oswald de Andrade
. It is one of the founding texts of Brazilian modernism
because it has the preface which is an important unfavorable self-reflection about Oswald's works.
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by Brazilian
Literature of Brazil
Brazilian literature is written in the Portuguese language by Brazilians or in Brazil, even if prior to Brazil's independence from Portugal, in 1822...
writer Oswald de Andrade
Oswald de Andrade
José Oswald de Andrade Souza was a Brazilian poet and polemicist. He was born and spent most of his life in São Paulo....
. It is one of the founding texts of Brazilian modernism
Modernism
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
because it has the preface which is an important unfavorable self-reflection about Oswald's works.