Erico Verissimo
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Erico Verissimo (1905-1975) is an important Brazilian writer, who was born in Rio Grande do Sul. His father, heir of a rich family in Cruz Alta, met financial ruin during his son's youth. Verissimo worked in a pharmacy before arriving at Editora Globo, a book publisher, where he translated and released works of writers like Aldous Huxley. During the Second World War, he went to the United States. This period of his life was retold in some of his books, like Gato Preto em Campo de Neve (Black Cat in a Snow Field) and A Volta do Gato Preto (The Return of the Black Cat), plus História da Literatura Brasileira (History of Brazilian Literature), which contains some of his lectures at UCLA. His epic O Tempo e o Vento (The Time and the Wind) became one of the great masterpieces of the Brazilian novel, alongside Os Sertões by Euclides da Cunha, and Grande Sertão: Veredas by Guimarães Rosa.
Four of Verissimo's works, Time and the Wind, Night, Mexico, and His Excellency the Ambassador, were translated into the English language by Linton Lomas Barrett.
He was the father of another famous writer of Rio Grande do Sul, Luis Fernando Verissimo.
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- Fantoches e Outros Contos
- Clarissa
- Caminhos Cruzados
- A Vida de Joana D'Arc
- Música ao Longe
- Um Lugar ao Sol
- As Aventuras de Tibicuera
- Viagem a Aurora do Mundo
- Olhai os Lírios do Campo
- Saga
- Gato Preto em Campo de Neve
- O Resto é Silêncio
- A Volta do Gato Preto
- O Tempo e o Vento (Saga)
- O Continente 1
- O Continente 2
- O Retrato 1
- O Retrato 2
- O Arquipélago 1
- O Arquipélago 2
- O Arquipélago 3
- México
- O Senhor Embaixador
- Noite / O Prisioneiro
- Israel em Abril
- Incidente em Antares
- Um Certo Henrique Bertaso / Artigos Diversos
- Solo de Clarineta 1
- Solo de Clarineta 2
