/lit/ - Literature

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>>650482
Go read Saramago, or Fernando Sabino.
Both of them are really good authors.

>>650482
And, btw, Dom Casmurro is Brazilian Literature, not Portuguese.

>>650511

>in Portuguese

>>650482

Pele: The Meteoric Rise of Soccer (except in America because we know it sucks)

This is supposed to be Portugal's epic or some shit, I dunno, never cared enough to give it a try.

>>650516

Sorry, my mistake.

>>650521

Luisíadas is da shit, but you have to know Portuguese pretty well, otherwise you won't be able to understand it.
Camões is like our "Shakespeare".

>>650511
OP asked for works "in Portuguese" as in terms of language, i think.
This >>650507, and Verissimo, Nelson Rodrigues, basically any modernist brazilian writer (1920-1950). There's a lot of good stuff before them too, but i'm not familiar with those periods.
AND AVOID PAULO COELHO

>>650544
Oh, Sertões too.

Op, you're into poetry or prose?
Or would you like to read both?

Thanks a bunch /lit/!

>>650558
Both.
I was just reading some Olavo Bilac.

>>650537
I figured it was something like that.

For BR stuff, although I live here I'm not very knowledgeable about national literature. I always hear that Machado de Assis was kind of our 'Shakespeare' and Luis Fernando Verissimo and Carlos Drummond de Andrade are the shit.

Pictured: One of the few national books I've read.

>>650574

Cara, leia Fernando Sabino, ele é simplesmente foda.
E nada de linguagem difícil e merdas do tipo.

>>650587

I gotta finish Catch 22 and Fragile Things, and I'd really to make Forever War or Jonathan Strange & Mr.Norrel my next purchase...but I'll put him in my List.

>>650587
Cut that shit

>>650604
OP, i have the same problem as you. Too much into non-regional stuff.
Got Clarissa because of it. Well, because of it, and because it reminds me of someone i didn't want to remember.

Op here.
How many Brazilians are on /lit/ right now?
>>650587
Ok I'll do that.
I thought about reading Capitães da areia just because I didn't read it in school and everyone says it's such a great book.
What does /lit/ think?

>>650604

Nice!
You won't be disappointed.
And good reading!

>>650636
Guess there are quite some Brazilian folks here, including myself.
Never read it either, although I was supposed to, last month.

>>650616
One here.How's Catch 22? Thinking about getting it.
And you actually like Neil Gaiman?
BROFIST.swf

>>650651
My teacher's face when I didn't read O Cortiço.

Any Portuguese people on /lit/?

Brazilian Literature student fag here, OP.
Os Lusíadas is a very good book but even for us brazilians is kinda hard to understand ( Portugal's portuguese is a lot different). If you ask about brazilian literature I'd say Machado de Assis is one of the best writers. Clarice Lispector is also awesome.

>>650655
(I'm awful at describing stuff)I'm not very far in it(200 out of 500), but so far it's pretty much what I expected: Insane things that almost make sense, some black humor(I loved the Martial Court scene with Clevinger) and a satire of army procedures and bureaucracy in general.

Actually, I got the Neil Gaiman stuff for my little sis, I'm just borrowing it because, eh, why not? However,I plan on getting Absolute Sandman I for my birthday in a couple of weeks.

>>650479
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>>650684
Holy shit OP, you're pretty awesome. You're not one of those indie kids, are you?

Good night guys, I have to wake up real early tomorrow.
Good luck OP and everyone else.
Falou!

>>650695
Yeah, i'll have to do the same OP. Fucking IBGE.
Good luck.

>>650695
Po kara tah de brinks neh mano?

>>650702
How fun...

>>650694
I'm not OP, I'm the guy that reccomended Lusiadas here>>650521 but thanks for the compliments. And nah, I'm just another geek('Cept for my soon-to-be, or at leastI hope, job).

>>650695
Boa noite.

I'm Op.
:3

>>650507
What do you think are Saramagos best novels? His best three, preferably. Where should I start?

>>650720
But i'm op, bro

OP here some good brazilian books:

Senhora (rich girl, pretentious guy twist)
O Cortiço (good realism/naturalism)
Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas (another Machado de Assis great book)

I HEARD SOME GREAT THING ABOUT O ALQUIMISTA
YOU SHOULD TRY IT, O-PEE

>>650723
Nah I'm pretty sure I'm OP..

>>650730
Ok so I'm the actual OP.
I've posted.
>>650482
>>650568
>>650572
>>650636
>>650670
>>650720
>>650741
I've read O Cortiço and I've heard good things about Memórias Póstumas but I didn't hear very good things about Senhora, what did you think?

>>650741
I'm pretty sure you're not. Then what would i be?

>>650752
PO.
I think so, because that's what Mr.Mouch would say to escape the blame of a bad decision

>>650766
If Atlas Shrugged ever became a movie I think that Emma should play Dagny.

>>650779
Pic related.
The real Dagny Taggart..
BTW OP should read more Camões.

>>650779
Do we really need a movie about uninteresting characters, doing nothing of interest, while pretending it is based on important literature? Wasn't Dune enough?

>>650808
No, it's never enough...

OP you should read "Quem é John Galt ?"

Fuck Ayn Rand bitch

The Book of Disquiet by Pessoa is enjoyable.