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...Maria G. Gatti Abstract Brazilian novelist Érico Veríssimo (1905–75) was an ambiguous subject of the Good Neighbor Policy: invited to the United States by the Department of State, he was also accused of anti-Americanism by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). An international police...

... for the study of a complex episode of Brazilian history. The only major error of fact that this reviewer noted was a confused biography of Antão de Mesquita de Oliveira, chancellor of the Relação and early leader against the Dutch attack on Bahia in 1624. According to Veríssimo Serrão, Bishop D. Marcos...

...Anyda Marchant Gato prêto em campo de neve. Romance de uma viagem aos Estados Unidos . 2d . ed. By Veríssimo Erico . Rio de Janeiro, Pôrto Alegre, and São Paulo , 1961 . Editôra Globo . Coleção Catavento. No. 34 . Pp. 340 . Paper . Copyright 1965 by Duke University Press...

...D. M. P. His Excellency, the Ambassador . By Veríssimo Érico . Translated by Barrett Linton Lomas and Barrett Marie McDavid . New York , 1967 . Macmillan Company . Pp. 439 . $6.95 . Copyright 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Gabriel Heliodoro Alvarado...

...E. Bradford Burns O Arquipélago . Vol. 2 . By Veríssimo Erico . Porto Alegre , 1961 . Editôra Globo . Pp. 305 . Paper. Copyright 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 In accordance with the editorial plan to print the final third of the trilogy O Tempo e o Vento in three...

...Benjamin Keen Iberoamérica, una comunidad . Edited by Barba Enrique M. , Prendes José Manuel Pérez , Pietri Arturo Uslar , Serrão Joaquim Verissimo , and Zavala Silvio . 2 vols. Madrid : Ediciones de Cultura Hispánica , 1989 . Illustrations, index . 896 pp...

...Leo Kirschenbaum Copyright 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 Brazilian Literature. An Outline . By Veríssimo Erico . ( New York : The Macmillan Company , 1945 . Pp. ix , 184 . $2.00 .) ...

...Daniel Wogan México; História duma viagem . By Veríssimo Erico . Porto Alegre , 1957 . Editôra Globo . Bibliography . Pp. 299 . Paper. Copyright 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 ...

...Stanley Robert Ross Mexico . By Veríssimo Erico . New York , 1960 . The Orion Press . Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. v , 341 . $6.00 . Copyright 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 ...

...R. E. Dimmick Historia da literature brasileira . By Verissimo Jose . Rio de Janeiro , 1954 . José Olympio Editora . Coleção Documentos Brasileiros, 74 . 3rd edition. Pp. 359 . Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 ...

...E. Bradford Burns O arquipélago . By Veríssimo Érico . Porto Alegre , 1961 . Editôra Globo . Pp. 304 . Paper . Copyright 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 O arquipélago , the final part of the trilogy O tempo e o vento , is being published, confusingly enough, in three...

... qualities reflected in the novels of Erico Verissimo. Though of uneven merit and based upon no important new research, these often prolix essays contain a few insights that will be stimulating to the specialist. Copyright 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 Figuras e ciclos da história rio...

... Camara Cascudo; from the writer Erico Veríssimo; from the Sociologist Gilberto Freyre; from the President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters Austregésilo de Athayde; and from important Brazilian journalists who published graciosamente (gratis) several articles favoring his campaign (which is not very...

... of continuity than rupture. The reader may concur with many of the provocative readings, and especially the inclusion of such writers as the memorialist Humberto de Campos and the unnos-talgic, vibrant Erico Veríssimo. But the interpretations of João Guimarães Rosa and Clarice Lispector warrant more discussion...

... unfamiliar with recent Brazilian literature and cultural history will have much to learn from Baden’s well-researched study. She devotes a few pages to a dozen works of fiction, and paragraphs on many more, including important narratives by luminaries such as Veríssimo, Callado, Ivo, Fonseca, J. J. Veiga...

... the impact for Brazilian authors of the wartime “books as weapons” campaign and the OCIAA's book translation scheme. Gatti's analysis of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files on writer Érico Veríssimo is particularly fascinating. The following chapter, by Eliza Mitiyo Morinaka, also takes book...

... Goldstein, p. 247). In addition, the volume includes a testimonial piece written by Bruna Verissimo, who grew up in the streets of Recife, Brazil. A short story, “The Children’s Rebellion,” reflects on the sometimes offensive and exploitative nature of elite efforts to help abandoned children...

... (Fiction Having Folkway Background) cites thirty-three items from Alencar s 0 Guarany (1857) to Lins do Rego s Pedra Bonita (1938). Some works by Mario de Andrade, Jose Am4rico de Almeida, Jorge de Lima, and Erico Verissimo could be added with profit. Part VI (Music and Poetry) lists forty-six items...

... by luminaries such as Érico Veríssimo, Antonio Callado, Lêdo Ivo, Rubem Fonseca, José J. Veiga, Autran Dourado, Silviano Santiago, Loyola Brandão, and Lygia Fagundes Telles. This also means that the “analyses” are in fact little more than plot summaries. This analytic insufficiency becomes fatal for the book...

... Grande do Sul in an atmosphere out of the pages of Érico Verissimo’s Time and the Wind , opted for law and a career within the system. Both memorialists tend to be more detailed regarding their less complex earlier years, both focus on their political, as against personal, lives, and both leave us...