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A Normalista
''A normalista'' is a novel written by the Brazilian writer Adolfo Caminha Adolfo Ferreira Caminha (May 29, 1867 – January 1, 1897) was a Brazilian Naturalist novelist, famous for his polemical novel '' Bom-Crioulo'', which deals with race and homosexuality. Life Caminha was born in Aracati in 1867, to Raimundo Ferre .... It was first published in 1891. External links ''A Normalista'', the book 1891 Brazilian novels {{Brazil-lit-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolfo Caminha
Adolfo Ferreira Caminha (May 29, 1867 – January 1, 1897) was a Brazilian Naturalist novelist, famous for his polemical novel '' Bom-Crioulo'', which deals with race and homosexuality. Life Caminha was born in Aracati in 1867, to Raimundo Ferreira dos Santos and Maria Firmina Caminha. Orphaned when he was 10 years old, he went to live with his uncle in Fortaleza. In 1883, he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where another relative of his matriculated him in a naval school. In 1886, he published his first book: ''Voos Incertos'' (''Uncertain Flights''). In the same year, he made an instruction trip to the United States. In 1887 he was promoted to Second Lieutenant and published the short story books ''Judite'' and ''Lágrimas de um Crente'' (''Tears of a Believer''). In 1888 he returned to Fortaleza, but got involved on a scandal where he eloped with an ''alférez''s daughter. They had two daughters, and fled to Rio de Janeiro, where Caminha spent his life as a civil servant. By 1891, Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
