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8°, recent half citron morocco over marbled boards by Berger of Rio de Janeiro, smooth spine gilt with crimson and green morocco lettering pieces, author and title lettered gilt, date numbered gilt at foot, pink endleaves. Two tiny round wormholes in lower blank margins. Some toning and foxing. Overall in good condition. Small oval blindstamp of "Gaspar de Drummond // Advogado" on second and third leaves. 204 pp., (1 l.). *** FIRST EDITION, reprinted in 1991, 1996 and 1997. Alencar (1829-1877) was active in both politics and literature; during this period he served as Brazilian Minister of Justice. "An extremely important though little known work. This work's central theme is the minorities' right of representation"--Adriano Sérgio Lopes da Gama Cerqueira, in McGuirk, ed., Brazil and the Discovery of America, p. 28.A native of Algodiço Novo (Mecejana), 10 kilometers from the city of Fortaleza, capital of the province of Ceará, Alencar (1829-1877) has been described as "the unrivalled master of Brazilian romantic fiction . No novelist of the era from Spanish America can match his achievement in terms of breadth, narrative fluency and grasp of detail" (Martin, Cambridge History of Latin America III, 820). He is credited with introducing concern with stylistic values into Brazilian prose fiction, and with beginning the nationalistic reaction in favor of Brazilian forms. Putnam describes him as "a writer of extraordinary talent," and notes that "as a maker of plots he has few equals." He has been compared with Cooper and Chateaubriand, a comparison he himself rejected. After earning his law degree in São Paulo Alencar moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he was a journalist, jurisconsult, politician and orator. His first novel, O Guaraní, appeared in 1857 and was very successful; it was even turned into an opera, with music by Carlos Gomes. Alencar's collected works fill more than 30 volumes. His numerous novels include examples of Indianism (Guarani), the society novel (As Minas de Prata, A Guerra dos Mascates), and the regional novel (Iracema, O Gaucho, O Sertanejo).Provenance: Probably Gaspar Vasconcellos Menezes de Drummond Filho (1849-1906), lawyer, journalist and politician. He was a senator representing Pernambuco in the Brazilian national legislature, 1893-1894, and deputy to the Pernambuco state legislature, 1894-1896.*** Israel Souza Lima, José de Alencar, pp. 307-9. Sacramento Blake V, 80. Innocêncio XIII, 133. Brasiliana Itaú, p. 659. Not in Biblioteca Nacional (Rio de Janeiro), José de Alencar: catálogo da exposição comemorativa do centenário de morte. Porbase lists the title without any location, giving the author as Tristão de Alencar Araripe, and the publisher as B.C. Garnier, with 204 pp. only. Jisc cites only copies of the 1997 edition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 44423
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