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• PoetryObrasCláudio Manuel da Costa · 1768not translated into EnglishA collection in which the shepherds of Arcadia, brought from Italy and Portugal, are sung from the mining mountains of Brazil.Literature
• PoetryMarília de DirceuTomás Antônio Gonzaga · 1792not translated into EnglishA collection of lyrics in which a magistrate, under a shepherd's name, sings of his betrothed before writing to her from prison.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryCanto genetlíacoInácio José de Alvarenga Peixoto · 1794not translated into EnglishA court poem in which the birth of a governor's son becomes the occasion for a eulogy of Brazil and its men.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetrySuspiros poéticos e saudadesGonçalves de Magalhães · 1836not translated into EnglishA collection of verse written while travelling in Europe, in which a Brazilian poet sings of his faith, of landscapes and of the country he has left behind.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelA moreninhaJoaquim Manuel de Macedo · 1844not translated into EnglishA novel in which a fickle student bets that he will not become attached, over a few days spent off the coast of Rio.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetrySong of ExileCanção do exílioGonçalves Dias · 1846A poem in which a student exiled in Europe contrasts the palm trees and birds of the country he has left with the places where he lives.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryLira dos vinte anosÁlvares de Azevedo · 1853not translated into EnglishA two-faced collection: the dreamed love of a very young poet, then its own parody, ironic and macabre.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelMemoirs of a Militia SergeantMemórias de um sargento de milíciasManuel Antônio de Almeida · 1854A novel of manners in which a boy of Rio, abandoned by his parents, grows up as a rascal in the days of the Portuguese court.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe GuaranyO GuaraniJosé de Alencar · 1857A novel in which an Indian warrior pledges boundless loyalty to the daughter of a Portuguese fidalgo, in a fortified house surrounded by the forest.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryThe Slave ShipO navio negreiroCastro Alves · 1870A poem in which a fine night at sea reveals a ship loaded with chained Africans, dancing under the whip.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelO cabeleiraFranklin Távora · 1876not translated into EnglishA novel in which a boy from the sertão, trained in crime by his father, becomes the bandit whom a whole province fears.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe AlienistO alienistaJoaquim Maria Machado de Assis · 1881A satirical tale in which a physician, in the name of science, locks up in his asylum a growing number of his fellow citizens.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelMulattoO mulatoAluísio Azevedo · 1881A novel in which a man of colour, returned from Europe with a degree, comes up against the prejudices of the good society of his home town.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe AthenaeumO AteneuRaul Pompeia · 1888A novel about a boy boarding at a school in the imperial capital, told by the man he has become.Literature
• PoetryBroquéisJoão da Cruz e Sousa · 1893not translated into EnglishA Symbolist collection in which whiteness, the melody of words and carnal desire contend for a poet in search of the absolute.LiteraturePublic domain
• EpicRebellion in the BacklandsOs sertõesEuclides da Cunha · 1902A narrative in which a village of the destitute in the sertão holds out, one after another, against the expeditions of the republican army.LiteraturePublic domain
• Short storiesContos gauchescosJoão Simões Lopes Neto · 1912not translated into EnglishA collection of stories from the southern countryside, told in the voice of an old guide, a former soldier of the Farroupilha revolt.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Sad End of Policarpo QuaresmaTriste fim de Policarpo QuaresmaAfonso Henriques de Lima Barreto · 1915Novel about a patriotic civil servant in Rio whose every project to reform Brazil ends in disaster.Literature
• Short storiesUrupêsMonteiro Lobato · 1918not translated into EnglishA collection of short stories of the São Paulo countryside, in which Jeca Tatu appears, the figure of the peasant left to fend for himself.Literature
• CinemaAitaré da PraiaGentil Roiz and Ary Severo · 1925A silent film about a fisherman from Pernambuco whom misunderstandings drive away from the woman he loves.Cinema
• NovelMacunaímaMário de Andrade · 1928A novel in which an Indian hero without character, changeable and lazy, crosses Brazil to recover a stolen amulet.LiteraturePublic domain
• PoetryMartim CererêCassiano Ricardo · 1928not translated into EnglishA poetry collection that makes the conquest of the interior by the pioneers of São Paulo the founding myth of the country.Literature
• CinemaSão Paulo, a Metropolitan SymphonySão Paulo, a sinfonia da metrópoleAdalberto Kemeny and Rodolpho Rex Lustig · 1929A silent documentary film that follows the great city of São Paulo from dawn to dusk, in the manner of the European city symphonies.Cinema
• PoetryPoemasMurilo Mendes · 1930not translated into EnglishFirst collection by a modernist poet, placed under the sign of a parody of the most famous Brazilian song of exile.Literature
• PoetryLibertinagemManuel Bandeira · 1930not translated into EnglishA collection of free-verse poems in which the memory of a childhood in Recife stands alongside irony and illness.Literature
• NovelO QuinzeRachel de Queiroz · 1930not translated into EnglishA novel about a year without rain in the Nordeste, followed through a family who set out on foot and a schoolteacher from the city.Literature
• CinemaLimiteMário Peixoto · 1931A silent film in which three castaways adrift relive their past in fragments of images.Cinema
• NovelSerafim Ponte GrandeOswald de Andrade · 1933not translated into EnglishA novel in fragments in which a São Paulo civil servant drops everything to roam the world, parodying every genre.Literature
• EssayThe Masters and the SlavesCasa-grande & senzalaGilberto Freyre · 1933An essay that seeks in the domestic life of the colonial plantations the origin of a mixed-race country, between masters and slaves.Literature
• CinemaRough DiamondGanga brutaHumberto Mauro · 1933Film about a man acquitted of the murder of his wife, who falls in love, far from Rio, with another man's fiancée.Cinema
• CinemaO Caçador de DiamantesVittorio Capellaro · 1934An adventure film in which a young man in love sets off to look for diamonds far from the city, in the time of the bandeiras.Cinema
• NovelBarren LivesVidas secasGraciliano Ramos · 1938A novel about a family of Nordeste peasants driven out by drought, told in thirteen almost self-contained chapters.Literature
• NovelFogo mortoJosé Lins do Rego · 1943not translated into EnglishA novel of the decline of a sugar mill in the Nordeste, seen in turn by a saddler, a ruined master and an idealistic horseman.Literature
• TheatreWedding DressVestido de noivaNelson Rodrigues · 1943A play set in the mind of a young woman operated on after an accident, between memories and delirium.Literature
• PoetryA rosa do povoCarlos Drummond de Andrade · 1945not translated into EnglishA collection of poems written during the war and the Vargas dictatorship, in which private life joins collective destiny.Literature
• TaleContos tradicionais do BrasilLuís da Câmara Cascudo · 1946not translated into EnglishA collection of one hundred popular tales heard in Brazil, arranged by families and annotated by a folklorist.Literature
• NovelTime and the WindO continenteÉrico Veríssimo · 1949A novel in which the siege of a house in 1895 frames a hundred and fifty years of the history of southern Brazil, around a single family.Literature
• NovelWho if I Cry OutLições de abismoGustavo Corção · 1950A novel in the form of the diary of a man condemned by illness, who questions his life and death.Literature
• CinemaCaiçaraAdolfo Celi · 1950Film about a young woman released from an asylum through marriage, caught between her husband, his partner and a sailor passing through.Cinema
• CinemaThe BanditO cangaceiroLima Barreto · 1953A bandit film set in the sertão, in which a cangaceiro's love for an abducted schoolteacher divides an entire gang.Cinema
• PoetryRomanceiro da InconfidênciaCecília Meireles · 1953not translated into EnglishA collection of poems on the failed conspiracy of the gold mines, in which conspirators, traitors and the women of Vila Rica pass by.Literature
• TheatreOrfeu da ConceiçãoVinícius de Moraes · 1954not translated into EnglishA play that transposes the myth of Orpheus onto a working-class hill in Rio, the guitar standing in for the lyre.Literature
• PoetryThe Death and Life of a SeverinoMorte e vida severinaJoão Cabral de Melo Neto · 1955A dramatic poem in which an emigrant from the sertão goes down towards Recife and meets only death everywhere.Literature
• CinemaRio, 100 Degrees F.Rio, 40 grausNelson Pereira dos Santos · 1955A film about one Sunday in Rio, followed through five young peanut sellers who have come down from the favela.Cinema
• NovelThe Devil to Pay in the BacklandsGrande Sertão: VeredasJoão Guimarães Rosa · 1956A novel in a single unbroken block in which a former bandit of the sertão tells his life and wonders whether the devil exists.Literature
• NovelGabriela, Clove and CinnamonGabriela, cravo e canelaJorge Amado · 1958A novel about a cocoa town that is modernising, centred on a bar owner and his cook from the sertão.Literature
• NovelChronicle of the Murdered HouseCrônica da casa assassinadaLúcio Cardoso · 1959A novel in which the decay of a family from Minas Gerais is read through the contradictory papers of those who witnessed it.Literature
• CinemaA grande feiraRoberto Pires · 1961An ensemble film about a popular market in Salvador threatened with eviction by speculation.Cinema
• CinemaAssault on the Pay TrainAssalto ao trem pagadorRoberto Farias · 1962A heist film drawn from the news, in which the loot from a pay train divides a gang from the favela.Cinema
• CinemaThe Turning WindBarraventoGlauber Rocha · 1962A film about a man returned from the city who wants to tear his people away from what he regards as religious resignation.Cinema
• CinemaThe Given WordO pagador de promessasAnselmo Duarte · 1962Film about a peasant who comes to keep a vow made in a terreiro, and from whom the Church closes its door.Cinema
• CinemaThe GunsOs fuzisRuy Guerra · 1964A film about soldiers charged with guarding food supplies in a starving town, where the crowd follows an animal it believes to be sacred.Cinema
• CinemaMacunaímaJoaquim Pedro de Andrade · 1969A film that has the characterless hero of the 1928 novel live through the time of the dictatorship and urban guerrilla warfare.Cinema
• NovelO Romance d'A Pedra do Reino e o Príncipe do Sangue do Vai-e-VoltaAriano Suassuna · 1971not translated into EnglishA novel about a prisoner of the sertão who claims to be heir to a kingdom, in which the chivalric romance meets popular chapbooks.Literature
• NovelO caso MorelRubem Fonseca · 1973not translated into EnglishA novel about an artist imprisoned for murder who entrusts his manuscript to a former policeman turned writer.Literature
• CinemaAll Nudity Shall Be PunishedToda nudez será castigadaArnaldo Jabor · 1973Film about a widower who has sworn never to remarry and falls in love with a prostitute.Cinema
• PoetryDirty PoemPoema sujoFerreira Gullar · 1976The poem of an exile who returns, line after line, to his native city in the Nordeste and to his youth.Literature
• NovelThe Hour of the StarA hora da estrelaClarice Lispector · 1977A novel about a poor typist from the Nordeste, told by a writer who constantly questions the act of writing.Literature
• NovelThe Centaur in the GardenO centauro no jardimMoacyr Scliar · 1980A novel about a child born a centaur into a Jewish immigrant family in southern Brazil, who dreams of being like everyone else.Literature
• CinemaO homem que virou sucoJoão Batista de Andrade · 1980Film about a cordel poet who emigrated to São Paulo, mistaken for a murderer and forced into hiding.Cinema
• CinemaBye Bye BrazilBye Bye BrasilCarlos Diegues · 1980A film about a travelling fairground troupe crossing a Brazil that is converting to television.Cinema
• CinemaGaijin: Roads to FreedomGaijin, os caminhos da liberdadeTizuka Yamasaki · 1980A film about the first Japanese immigrants on the coffee plantations of São Paulo state, told by a young wife.Cinema
• CinemaThey Don't Wear Black TieEles não usam black-tieLeon Hirszman · 1981A film about a strike in the metalworking industry of São Paulo, which sets a trade-unionist father against his son.Cinema
• NarrativeThe Obscene Madame DA obscena senhora DHilda Hilst · 1982A monologue narrative of a widow withdrawn under her staircase, torn between mystical quest and obscenity.Literature
• CinemaVerdes anosCarlos Gerbase and Giba Assis Brasil · 1984A film about a weekend of provincial gaúcho high-school students, at the height of the military regime.Cinema
• CinemaTwenty Years LaterCabra marcado para morrerEduardo Coutinho · 1984A film halted by the military's arrival in power, then resumed nearly twenty years later with the peasants it had shown.Cinema
• CinemaKiss of the Spider WomanO Beijo da Mulher AranhaHéctor Babenco · 1985A film about two cellmates, a dreamer who tells films and a political militant, in a South American prison.Cinema
• CinemaSonho sem fimLauro Escorel Filho · 1986A film about one of the first gaúcho filmmakers, ready to do anything, driving stunts included, to draw the public to his images.Cinema
• CinemaVeraSérgio Toledo · 1986A film inspired by the life of a poet, about a young trans man out of an orphanage who looks for his place and finds love.Cinema
• CinemaFulaninhaDavid Neves · 1986Film about an idle filmmaker who, between drinks with his friends, dreams of a teenage girl glimpsed in the street.Cinema
• CinemaHour of the StarA hora da estrelaSuzana Amaral · 1986A film about a young typist from the Northeast, lost in the great city of São Paulo.Cinema
• NovelThe AlchemistO AlquimistaPaulo Coelho · 1988Novel about an Andalusian shepherd who sets off for Egypt in search of a treasure seen in a dream, an initiatory and allegorical tale.Literature
• CinemaO QuatrilhoFábio Barreto · 1995A film about two households come from Italy, partners in the south of Brazil, between whom a forbidden love is born.Cinema
• NovelUm crime delicadoSérgio Sant'Anna · 1997not translated into EnglishA novel in which a critic accused by a young woman writes his defence, without our knowing how far to believe his account.Literature
• CinemaCentral StationCentral do BrasilWalter Salles · 1998A film about a public letter-writer at a railway station who, without having meant to, takes an orphaned boy in search of his father across rural Brazil.Cinema

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