O País do Carnaval
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O País do Carnaval is a Brazil
ian Modernist novel
. It was written by Jorge Amado
in 1931.It is an account of the Brazilian intelligentsia in the 1920s. Paul Rigger is the book's main character.In this first novel, already, though embryonic, the various themes of the author. Rigger Paulo, Brazilian intellectual training in Europe, want to participate in the political and intellectual life of the country. Disputes, in particular by the Carnival, mixing think that is a strong factor in the delay. Disillusioned, back to Europe.
Brazil
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ian Modernist novel
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....
. It was written by Jorge Amado
Jorge Amado
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school. He was the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and her Two Husbands in 1978...
in 1931.It is an account of the Brazilian intelligentsia in the 1920s. Paul Rigger is the book's main character.In this first novel, already, though embryonic, the various themes of the author. Rigger Paulo, Brazilian intellectual training in Europe, want to participate in the political and intellectual life of the country. Disputes, in particular by the Carnival, mixing think that is a strong factor in the delay. Disillusioned, back to Europe.