Antônio Castilho de Alcântara Machado de Oliveira (May 25, 1901 – April 14, 1935) was a Brazilian journalist, politician and writer. He didn't take part of the Week of Modern Art (1922) in

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, but even though wrote a great many

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s and

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and also an unfinished novel. Antônio de Alcântara Machado's extensive correspondence with journalist Prudente de Moraes Neto was published in 1997.''Pressão afetiva & aquecimento intelectual: cartas de Antônio de Alcântara Machado a Prudente de Moraes, neto (1925–1932)'' edited Cecília de Lara – 1997 Page 27

Bibliography

* ''Terra Roxa e Outras Terras'' * ''Pathé-Baby'',

, 1926 * ''Brás, Bexiga e Barra Funda'', short story, 1927 * ''Laranja da China'', short story, 1928 * ''Mana Maria'',

novel A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ...

, 1936 * ''Cavaquinho e Saxofone'', essay, 1940

Translations

* ''Pathé-Baby'', foreword by

Oswald de Andrade José Oswald de Souza Andrade (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic. He was born in, spent most of his life in, and died in São Paulo. Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism ...

, illustrations by Paim, French translation, notes and afterword by Antoine Chareyre, Paris, Editions Pétra, coll. "Voix d'ailleurs", 2013, 272p.

References

1901 births 1935 deaths 20th-century Brazilian male writers {{Brazil-writer-stub