How good is Jorge Amado's language! Smooth and soft, melodious and strong. Each sentence, like a sea wave, covers you headlong with the salty life of distant...

“Coasting Voyage” can hardly be called a memoir. Rather, it is a memoir novel, consisting of numerous short stories, serious or humorous. They are united by ...

One of the most mischievous and witty novels by the great Jorge Amadou. Three seemingly incompatible storylines... An anecdotal and farcical election campaig...

Latin American prose is the brightest stone in the necklace of fiction of the 20th century. The names of Márquez, Cortázar, Borges and other authors rise abo...

Jorge Amado is known throughout the world as an unsurpassed singer of sunny Brazil. His books mix all the imaginable colors of a distant, hot country, where ...

The classic of world literature, Jorge Amado (1912-2001), is famous not only for his outstanding writing talent, but also for his humanistic ideas. In his wo...

One of the late novels of the great Brazilian. One of his best works. A tense, fascinating plot coexists with sophistication of style, realism with mystical ...

Published in the journal “Foreign Literature” Nos. 1,2 1990

From the section “Authors of this issue”

...The novel “The Disappearance of a Saint...

In his highly social novels, the writer talentedly developed the mythopoetic traditions of magical realism literature. Without the work of Jorge Amado (born ...