Jorge Amado (1912–2001)
Autor de Gabriela, clavo y canela
Sobre El Autor
Jorge Amado, August 10, 1912 - August 6, 2001 Elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Jorge Amado possesses a talent for storytelling as well as a deep concern for social and economic justice. He was born in Bahia, Brazil, in 1912. Some critics claim that his early works suffer from his mostrar más politics. Others commonly express reservations concerning Amado's sentimentality and erotico-mythic stereotyping. In the works represented in English translation, his literary merits prevail. The Violent Land (1942) chronicles the development of Brazilian territory and struggles for its resources, memorializing the deeds of those who built the country. Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958), which achieved critical and popular success in both Brazil and the United States, tells a sensual love story of a Syrian bar owner and his beautiful cook. Home Is the Sailor (1962) introduces Captain Vasco Moscoso de Aragao, a comic figure in the tradition of Don Quixote. In Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1966), Amado introduced the folk culture of shamans and Yorube gods. The protagonists of Shepherds of the Night (1964) are Bahia's poor. (Bowker Author Biography) Jorge Amado has been called the greatest twentieth-century Brazilian novelist. He was born in 1912 in Ilheus, in the northeastern-most state of Bahai. This area serves as the backdrop for most of Amado's work, which reflects a deep appreciation of the Brazilian essence. Amado's works have made him a national figure in Brazil. Amado's early novels were shaped by a belief in Marxism, and relate the sufferings of humble fishermen and cocoa plantation workers. By the 1950s, he had turned his attention to the plight of middle-class Bahains. This more jovial approach brought him worldwide acclaim, and his keen comic sense and appreciation of the common man have drawn comparisons to the novels of Charles Dickens. Music, cuisine, and passion figure prominently in Amado's literary output. Amado's works have been translated from Portuguese into more than forty languages, have sold over fifty million copies worldwide, and have been reworked for film, television, and stage. His portraits of commanding female characters, including Gabriela from Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, and Dona Flor from Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, have been adapted to the screen, and actress Sonia Braga earned her initial success in these roles. Other titles include The Sand Captains; Memory of a Child; The War of the Saints; and Home Is the Sailor. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de Jorge Amado
La cucina di Bahia, ovvero Il libro di cucina di Pedro Archanjo e Le merende di dona Flor (1994) 17 copias
Jorge Amado - Literatura comentada 3 copias
Rua Alagoinhas 33, Rio Vermelho: A casa de Zelia e Jorge Amado (Casa de palavras) (Portuguese Edition) (1999) 3 copias
Boa Noite, Querido Coelhinho 2 copias
Boa Noite, Querida Panda 2 copias
O cavaleiro da esperança 2 copias
Farda Fardão camisola de dormir 2 copias
Romanzi - Volume I 2 copias
os ásperos tempos I 1 copia
Tieta do Agreste, 19ª edição 1 copia
Suor, 45ª edição 1 copia
Werkstatt der Wunder Roman 1 copia
SÂO JORGE DOS ILHÉUS 1 copia
o amor de soldado 1 copia
Fotobiografia 1 copia
O gato malhado a andorinha Sinhá 1 copia
Titel aus Agreste 1 copia
perminio asfora 1 copia
São Jorge dos Ilhéus Edição 22 1 copia
o gato malhado 1 copia
LITERATURA BRASILEIRA 1 copia
Seara Vermelha 1 copia
O gato malhado e a Andorinha 1 copia
Cacau 1 copia
miecio tati rio dos fogados 1 copia
Obras de Jorge Amado. 4, Jubiaba — Autor — 1 copia
Três Contos Ilustrados - De Como o Mulato Porciúncula Descarregou Seu Defunto; O Milagre dos Pássaros; As Mortes e o… (1983) 1 copia
Amado Jorge 1 copia
Jubiabá — Autor — 1 copia
Bahia Boa Terra Bahia 1 copia
Bahia Colorida 1 copia
Conversa com Fuanga Félé,(...) Mario de Andrade, chefe da luta de Angola - Tempo Brasileiro, 1 1 copia
Obra conjunta 1 copia
DEN BLODDRÄNKTA JORDEN 1 copia
Tendas dos milagres 1 copia
Mucizeler Dükkanı 1 copia
Alınteri 1 copia
רועי-לילה 1 copia
A B C de Castro Alves 1 copia
Jorge Amado 1 copia
Viva o Povo Brasileiro 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The eye of the heart; short stories from Latin America (1973) — Contribuidor — 156 copias, 2 reseñas
A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America (1991) — Contribuidor — 149 copias, 3 reseñas
Antaeus No. 64/65, Spring/Autumn 1990 - Twentieth Anniversary Issue (1990) — Contribuidor — 12 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Amado, Jorge
- Nombre legal
- Amado de Faria, Jorge
- Otros nombres
- AMADO DE FARIA, Jorge
AMADO, Jorge - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1912-08-10
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2001-08-06
- Lugar de sepultura
- Cremated, Ashes in his garden
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Brasil
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Itabuna, Brazil
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Salvador, Brazil
- Lugares de residencia
- Itabuna, Bahia, Noordoost-Brazilië
Salvador de Bahia, Brazilië - Ocupaciones
- politician
writer - Relaciones
- Gattai, Zelia (wife)
- Organizaciones
- Brazilian Academy of Letters
- Premios y honores
- Prémio Camões (1994)
- Biografía breve
- Blurb: Jorge Amado, geboren in 1912, wordt beschouwd als de grootste schrijver in Brazilië. Met meer dan 8 miljoen exemplaren van zijn boeken in druk is hij de spreekbuis en getuige van zijn geliefde volk. Hij weet zowel hun armoede als hun strijd, hun hartstochten en hun dromen op onnavolgbare wijze op te roepen. Amper 19 jaar oud publiceerde Amado zijn eerste werk en reeds op 23-jarige leeftijd was hij een der succesvolste auteurs van Zuid-Amerika. De tientallen romans die deze eminente volksverteller heeft gecreëerd, waaronder de internationale bestsellers Gabriele, Dona Flore en haar twee echtgenoten, Vlinders van de nacht en Tereza Batista, zijn vertaald in 45 talen en gepubliceerd in 60 landen. Tocaia Grande, in drie haar tijd geschreven, is de meest gedurfde en meest luisterrijke roman uit Amado’s roemrijke schrijversloopbaan. Deze wonderlijke, onvergetelijke geschiedenis van een werkelijk unieke stad, waarin opnieuw de zelfkant van de Braziliaanse samenleving centraal staat, is wederom onmiddelijk een wereldwijde bestseller geworden (flaptekst).
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Group Read, May 2016: Gabriela, Cinnamon and Clove en 1001 Books to read before you die (mayo 2016)
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