Bruno marked it as to-read Dec 23, Jean Emer added it Feb 20, Rosana Butler added it May 17, Guilherme Tirelli marked it as to-read Jun 03, Henrique Valle marked it as to-read Oct 14, Lilly marked it as to-read Jun 15, Tamires Brasil marked it as to-read Jul 25, George marked it as to-read Nov 20, There are no discussion topics on this book yet. He is one of the most famous writers of the first generation of Brazilian Romanticism, writing historical, regionalist and Indianist romances — being the most famous The Guarani.

He wrote some works under pen name Erasmo. He is patron of the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Invited by his friend Francisco Otaviano, he becomes a collaborator for journal Correio Mercantil. Also in , he wrote and published under feuilleton form his first romance: He was a personal friend of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.

Coincidentally, Alencar is the patron of the chair Assis occupied. He died in Rio de Janeiro in , a victim of tuberculosis. Trivia About Sonhos d'Ouro. No trivia or quizzes yet. Jun 30, Joselito Honestly and Brilliantly rated it liked it. My first book by Joselito Saramago, Nobel Prize winner for literature. Ricardo Reis, a middle-aged poet and doctor of medicine, left Portugal sixteen years ago for Rio de Janeiro Brazil but has decided to come back after learning about the death of his friend, the poet Fernando Pessoa.

At Lisbon, he stayed in a hotel and met a chamber maid named Lydia. They began an affair. After cleaning his room, Lydia cleans him too, using her natural juices as water and her body as a mop. Occasional tenants of the hotel, too, were the aristocratic Marcenda and her lawyer-father. They ostensibly visit Lisbon to get medical treatment for Marcenda's paralyzed left arm, but her father's real purpose is to see his mistress in the city.

Ricardo Reis and Marcenda almost had an affair, he even proposed marriage to her once something he never did to Lydia , but all they managed to do was to have some lip action a few times. Another frequent visitor of Ricardo Reis was Fernando Pessoa. You may ask why, when the latter, as per narration above, was supposed to have died already. Well, he was a ghost. Senor Pessoa, however, denies he is a ghost. He said ghosts come from another world, but he comes only from the cemetery where he was buried.

Eventually, Ricardo Reis leaves the hotel and rents an apartment. Lydia follows him there, taking breaks from her hotel work, and continues her cleaning chores for Ricardo Reis. Hitler and Mussolini gain power, civil war erupts in nearby Spain, and Ricardo Reis has lots of thoughts about religion, war, poetry, death, the baby and Portugal. When my eyes were reading this novel my brain was standing behind them peering over their shoulder and occasionally asking what did he say? Like when Ricardo Reis was reviewing a poem of his, about him thinking and feeling, he muses: Who will be feeling what I am feeling, or feel that I am feeling in the place where I am, because of feeling.

Who is using me in order to think and feel, and among the innumerable people who live within me, who I am, Who Who am I that others are not nor have been nor will come to be. He asked if he was like that who will be thinking at this moment what I am thinking, or think that I am thinking in the place where I am, because of thinking, who will be feeling what I am feeling, or feel that I am feeling in the place where I am, because of feeling, who is using me in order to think and feel, and among the innumerable people who live within me, who I am, Who Yes, but what did he mean by that.

We don't know, you're the brain here, you want us to read it again. Yes, please do read it again because I am blind. You may ask, what style is that, dialogues without quotation marks, the exchanges made into sentences and with questions ending with a simple period. Well, that's Joselito Saramago's style, at least in this book. If you don't like it, then don't read the book. After all, Senor Saramago, God bless his soul, said you're not expected to read everything-- "A man must read widely, a little of everything or whatever he can, but given the shortness of life and the verbosity of the world, not too much should be demanded of him.

We know what books are, we have lists of them, but what is time. Joselito Saramago, Nobel Prize winner, has the answer to that: Days and nights succeed each other in oppressive heat that both descends from the sky and rises fromm the earth. My eyes, then engrossed, said shhhh, we are reading, be silent. Ou eu sou demasiado pequena para ele. Vamos precisar de nos reencontrar daqui a uma ou duas dezenas de anos.

Espero que ele esteja igual. Ma nelle acque del fiume si riflettono anche le navi da guerra pronte a salpare: A strange, dreamy book that is as much about how life fades into death as early 20th Century Portuguese history. Saramago's voice dominates every page of the work to the extent that it seems to be a monologue about a fictional figure and not a novel in the traditional sense. Reis, the main character -- other than the narrator -- was a pseudonym used by the poet Fernando Pessoa, and here Saramago imagines his return to Portugal on the occasion of his creator's death after 16 years in Brazil.

It w A strange, dreamy book that is as much about how life fades into death as early 20th Century Portuguese history. It was a turbulent time of Marxist revolts and the rise of fascism in Europe, and Reis' support of monarchy and strict social classes is shaken by Franco's bloody rise to power neighboring in Spain and an awkward affair with a hotel chambermaid.

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Suffused first with rain and then with oppressive heat, the book seems blurred, dropping into the forgetfulness of death that dominates Reis' conversations with a ghostly Pessoa. While honestly a beautiful book, it is not an easy read, expecting a certain knowledge of Lusitanian history and literature from the audience. Saramago revels in minutiae and the events, weather, and even newspaper ads described in the book were meticulously researched from primary sources -- rich as a representation of period culture, the details can sometimes overwhelm.

In addition, dense, confusing sentences and paragraphs that can extend for a half-dozen pages or more are only made more trying by a poor translation that does neither the English nor the Portuguese justice. New translations of all of Saramago's books are in order given his status as a Nobel Prize winner. It is one of those novels where one expects to be rewarded after the brute force required of the reader.

I'm not entirely sure the payoff is worth it for most of the audience, but for a few it could be a profound book. Il 30 novembre del morirono, nello stesso giorno, cinque fra i migliori scrittori portoghesi. La lentezza della narrazione e lo stile sembrano anch'essi ricalcare certi libri di Pessoa: Anche il lungo finale, dove protagonisti sono i cambiamenti nella scena europea prossima all'arrivo del nazifascismo, riporta all'opera di Pessoa e a quanto l'autore, scomparendo quattro anni prima dello scoppio della guerra, ha lasciato con le sue opere letterarie.

Saramago purtroppo non riesce a sostenere tutto il peso di un omaggio del genere: Feb 14, Elizabeth Adams rated it it was amazing. Both were cold, yet between the two was the difference between the quick and the dead, between what can still be salvaged and what is forever lost. Dear Wah-Ming -- This letter, full of still-incomplete thoughts, comes to you because it was you who suggested Saramago's "The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis" to me, and you I've thought of often as I read the book.

Perhaps that seems strange, because we've never met and hardly know each other, although I read your excellent essay on Saramago just after his own death at 87 earlier this year; perhaps he feels now like our mutual friend. The real reason is clear to me, though. If every reading of every book is unique, as I believe, then as I read this remarkable novel I kept wondering about your reading of it, because mine felt so particular, and so dependent on reading it at the age that I am, preoccupied with certain thoughts because of that age.

You are, I think, in your thirties, while I am hurtling toward sixty.

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And while we both, as writers and readers, read this book -- I am quite sure -- breathless through Saramago's astounding sentences, wide-eyed at his minute but razor-sharp observations of place and personality, slack-jawed at his masterful construction of plot and narrative, and awed, in the aftermath, by the multiple layers of meaning that emerge -- I felt Ricardo Reis' cold hand on my shoulder as if I were a third party in the room, along with his visitor, the ghost of poet Fernando Pessoa, and I cannot imagine that you would have felt this; not yet.

Of course, he had no choice: Reis' age had to be 48 because the book follows him for a year after the death of Pessoa, at 47; Pessoa, the inventor of some heteronymns with distinct voices and personalities, of which one of the three main ones -- a melancholy flaneur and believer in fate rather than the possibility of happiness or choice -- was "Ricardo Reis. As I said, there are many ways this novel could be read, but for me, it is a book about the fatigue that comes at late middle age. I'm not talking about being jaded, because unless one has really been spoiled or profligate, one learns that there is always beauty to be seen and something new to be experienced.

It's a fatigue that happens when one is old enough to look back and see that much of life is past, that death has become a companion, and that what looms ahead is a choice requiring, on the one hand, great force of will: I see this now in friends facing retirement, whose children are gone and on their own, weary in both body and spirit, convinced their best work and best years are behind them.

And though I never anticipated finding it in myself -- because as an artist, writer, and thinker I have no intention of "retiring, " ever -- there are times when I am so exhausted by the world, by a worn body and mind that have seen and felt too much, and by reminders of death, an increasingly frequent visitor, that this choice becomes much more obvious and imperative.

Saramago himself didn't achieve literary recognition until he was sixty, and wrote "Ricardo Reis" when he was 64; these ideas must have been very real to him or he couldn't have embodied them so convincingly in his characters: Reis, the doctor who refuses to heal; Marcenda whose hand "like a lifeless bird that she stroked in her lap" ceased to function after the death of her mother; the sleazy informer Victor, always announced by his leitmotif of onion breath; Lydia the chambermaid and her anarchist brother - the most vibrant characters in the book - who choose very different ways of seizing life with both hands.

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What is a valuable life? What is the role of hope and how far are we willing to go to find it? So there is this possibility: The story, like many other 20th century novels with a political setting, can also be read as a commentary on detached intellectualism. Or it can be read both as an account and an allegory about the choices faced by nations - by Portugal and Spain, sliding into Facism - or, by extension, perhaps even by nations in our own time.

It would seem that this was at least part of the author's intention: He memorized many of Reis' "Odes," including the unforgettable and - is it deliberately provocative? Later, much later, the apprentice, already with grey hairs and a little wiser in his own wisdom, dared to write a novel to show this poet of the Odes something about the spectacle of the world of , where he had placed him to live out his last few days: It was his way of telling him: She then went on to work as a clerk on Salvador's main record store to get closer to music.

Career Costa debuted her professional career on the n Fernando Ferreira Meirelles born November 9, is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for co-directing the film City of God, released in in Brazil and in in the U. For his work in the film, he was eventually nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. Early life "A great tragedy for the family. For a long time, it was a taboo. No one mentioned it. I was four when it happened, but I still remember him. In , he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva The Wedding Dress , considered revolutionary for the complex exploration of its characters' psychology and its use of colloquial dialog.

He went on to write many other seminal plays and today is widely regarded as Brazil's greatest playwright. In , the family moved to Rio de Janeiro after Mario ran into trouble for criticizing a powerful local politician. In Rio, Mario rose through the ranks of one of the city's major newspaper and, in , launched his own newspaper, a sensationalist daily. By fourteen Nelson was covering the police beat for his father; by fifteen he had dropped out of school; and by sixt Within a few years, Matogrosso started singing in a vocal quartet, performing at college festivals throughout Brazil.

With the hope of becoming a stage actor, Matogrosso moved to Rio de Janeiro in , where he lived as a hippie and made ends meet by selling arts and crafts. In the s, Matogrosso Roberto Burle Marx August 4, — June 4, was a Brazilian landscape architect as well as a painter, print maker, ecologist, naturalist, artist and musician whose designs of parks and gardens made him world famous. He is accredited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture to Brazil.

He was known as a modern nature artist and a public urban space designer. His work had a great influence on tropical garden design in the 20th century. Water gardens were a popular theme in his work. He was deftly able to transfer traditional artistic expressions such as graphic design, tapestry and folk art into his landscape designs. He also designed fabrics, jewellery and stage sets. He was one of the first people to call for the conservation of Brazil's rainforests.

More than 50 plants bear his name. He amassed a substantial collection of plants at his home, including more than philodendrons. Milton Nascimento Portuguese pronunciation: Biography Milton Nascimento was born in Rio de Janeiro. Nascimento was an occasional DJ on a radio station that his father once ran. In the early stages of his career, Nascimento played in two samba groups, Evolussamba and Sambacana. Martinho da Vila born February 12, is a Brazilian singer and composer who is considered to be one of the main representatives of samba and MPB. He is a prolific songwriter, with hundreds of recorded songs across over 40 solo albums.


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He also has many songs that were recorded by singers from different musical genres. As a singer, he is considered by critics as one of the top exponents of samba to have ever lived. Furthermore, Martinho composed some of the most important samba enredos samba school themed songs and has forged a solid partnership with the Vila Isabel samba school. Marisa de Azevedo Monte born 1 July is a Brazilian singer, composer, instrumentalist, and producer of Brazilian popular music and samba.

Marisa is considered by Rolling Stone Brasil to be the second greatest singer, behind only Elis Regina. On her father's side, she is descended from the Saboias, one of the oldest Italian families in Brazil. She studied singing, piano, and drums as a child, and began studying opera singing at After failing to break through into s Brazilian pop ro She works as columnist of the Zero Hora and O Globo newspapers.

She moved for nine months in Chile, and she began to write poems. Coming back to Porto Alegre, she began writing as a journalist also continuing her literary way. A Morte Devagar A slow death , one of her poems written in , has for a long time been erroneously attributed to Pablo Neruda. He discovered his gift for the theater from the setting of stage plays made in the Rio Branco School, where he studied. Fagundes began on Rede Globo in , on the telenovela Saramandaia. He also served for several years as protagonist of the series Carga Pesada, from to , and from to The actor has four children: Career Television Year Title Role One of the greatest names in Brazilian popular music, Noel gave a new twist to samba, combining its Afro-Brazilian roots with a more urban, witty language and making it a vehicle for ironic social commentary.

Early life Rosa was born in Rio de Janeiro into a middle-class family of the Vila Isabel neighbourhood. An accident with a forceps at his birth caused a disfigured chin. Although Noel started medicine studies, he gave most of his attention to music and would spend whole nights in bars drinking and playing with other samba musicians.


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Soon he started composing sambas, and he had his breakthrough with "Com que roupa? Life Early years Couto was born in the city of Beira, Mozambique's second largest city, where he was also raised and schooled. He is the son of Portuguese emigrants who moved to the Portuguese colony in the s. Hermeto Pascoal born June 22, is a Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist.

He was born in Lagoa da Canoa, Alagoas, Brazil. Pascoal comes from a remote corner of northeastern Brazil, an area that lacked electricity at the time he was born. He learned the accordion from his father and practised for hours indoors as, being albino, he was incapable of working in the fields with the rest of his family. These now-classic albums and the musicians involved Edu Lobo, Elis Regina, Cesar Camargo Mariano established widely influential new dir His first solo feature film as a director was King of the Night Babenco had an international success with Pixote — A lei do mais fraco In the words of E.

Ruby Rich while it concerns "a pair of boys who form a symbiotic sexual union", the film ca He first began making films in , when he and some friends attempted to make a film about World War I. In he completed his first film Douro, Faina Fluvial, a documentary about his home city Porto made in the city symphony genre. Among the numerous factors that prevented Oliveira from making more films during this time period were the political situation in Portugal, family obligations and money.

In Oliveira made his second feature narrative film Past and Present, a social satire that both set the standard for his film career afterwards and gained him recognition in the global film community. He continued making films Eliseu Cama de Gato Severo Tardivo Duas Caras Vik Muniz Portuguese pronunciation: Initially a sculptor, Muniz grew interested with the photographic representations of his work, eventually focusing completely on photography.

Primarily working in series, Muniz incorporates the use of quotidian objects such as diamonds, sugar, thread, chocolate syrup and garbage in his practice to create bold, ironic and often deceiving imagery, gleaned from the pages of pop culture and art history. His work has been met with both commercial success and critical acclaim, and has been exhibited worldwide. In , Muniz was featured in the documentary film Waste Land, directed by Lucy Walker, which featured Muniz's work on one of the world's largest garbage dumps, Jardim Gramacho, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Marieta Severo da Costa born November 2, is a Brazilian theater, film and television actress.

Career Severo starred in her first telenovela in In , she played Leila Diniz' mother in the biopic of the same name. In , public acclaim came with the telenovela Que Rei Sou Eu? In , critical acclaim came with the film Carlota Joaquin Vinicius Felix de Miranda, performed for a decade as a solo musician before approaching Leandro e Leonardo for help finding a partner. They introduced him to Marrone b.

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Their debut was released by Warner Bros. Records in ; they have enjoyed a successful and prolific career since then, releasing more than one album per year. Bruno e Marrone — Vol. Cilada De Amor Sonhos, Planos, Fantasias Rolling Stone in Portuguese 25 ed. After some early works in the eclectic manner, he adopted Modernism in In Costa established a partnership with Russian-born Brazilian architect Gregori Warchavchik, and also became the Director of the National School of Fine Arts where he had studied.

Even though he found students eager to be taught in the "new style," his ruthless administration won him As a child he worked alongside his family in the fields. At the age of 10 he saw "corta capim" for the first time.