The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray
Author(s): Jorge Amado (tr. Gregory Rabassa)
Along with "The Discovery of America by the Turks," two masterworks by the greatest Brazilian novelist of the twentieth century, published for the centennial of his birthWidely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, "The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray" comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa. It tells the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, who drops dead after he abandons his life of upstanding citizenship to assume the identity of Quincas Water-Bray, a "champion drunk" and bum who is whisked along on a postmortem journey that climaxes in his loss at sea.
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"Swift, funny, and occasionally even slapstick." --Rivka Galchen, from the Introduction
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (1912 - 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school. He was the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos) in 1978. His work reflects the image of a mestizo Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. A cheerful and optimistic country and at the same time, with deep social and economic differences. He occupied the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1961 until his death in 2001.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Publishing Group
- : Penguin Publishing Group
- : 0.086
- : 01 August 2012
- : 198mm X 129mm X 18mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jorge Amado (tr. Gregory Rabassa)
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 869.341
- : 96
- : FA