The Guarani

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The Guarani: Brazilian Novel
Cover of the first edition, financed by Alencar himself
AuthorJosé de Alencar
Original titleO Guarani: Romance Brasileiro
TranslatorJames W. Hawes
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese
Publication date
1857
Published in English
1893
Media typeSerial (hardcover and paperback)

The Guarani: Brazilian Romance (Portuguese: O Guarani: Romance Brasileiro) is a 1857 Brazilian novel written by José de Alencar. It was first serialized in the newspaper Diário do Rio de Janeiro, but due to its enormous success Alencar decided to compile his writing in a volume. A plausible explanation for this success might be in the fact that the novel spoke of freedom and independence, arguing for a nativeness that could be found in tropical nature and in the indigenous people of Brazil.

Years later the novel was turned into an opera performed in Italian and called Il Guarany (1870), by Carlos Gomes, among other places it was presented in Milan and New York (it is a known fact[citation needed] that the author did not appreciate the final result). The Guarani is regarded a foundational text of Brazilian Romanticism, but it gained international projection by being translated into Spanish, German (Der Guarany, Brasilianischer Roman, Maximillian Emerich, 1876) and English (The Guarany, Brazilian novel, James W. Hawes, 1893).

The novel is still widely read nowadays, especially at Brazilian schools as an introduction to novel reading, but also by anyone who enjoys a thrilling adventure story. Literary criticism has tended to link The Guarani to the works of

Chateaubriand and the noble savage from the Rousseauian tradition. However, this interpretation of the novel has become outdated as recent academic works show also how dark, sexual, gothic and lyrical (over narrative, unlike the Fenimore Cooper model) the novel is. [1]

Plot introduction

The Guarani is set back in 1604, a period when Portugal and its colonies submitted to Spanish dominion due to a lack of heirs to ascend to the throne. Alencar takes advantage of this dynastic complication to resurrect the historical figure of Dom Antônio de Mariz, one of the founders of the city of Rio de Janeiro and a pioneer settler. This historical (factual) background, which orients the novel throughout, is set in the first two chapters; then fantasy, both violent and erotic, starts to prevail.

D. Antônio establishes himself in a deserted inland region, a few days’ travel from the seaside city of Rio. The land was granted to him through his services to the Portuguese crown, whose legitimacy the nobleman now distrusts. To be politically independent (if not economically) and keep to the Portuguese codes of honour, he builds a castle-like house to shelter his family in Brazilian soil where he lives like a feudal lord with his family and retainers.

His family consists of his severe wife D. Lauriana, his angelic fair, blue-eyed daughter Cecília, his

Aimoré Indian
woman by D. Diogo.

Comic adaptations

The Guarani is the Brazilian novel with the largest number of adaptations for comics.

Ubirajara, for the publisher Vida Doméstica. Another adaptation was made by Nilo Cardoso and published by La Selva.[11] In the 1970s it was adapted by Edumundo Rodrigues.[12] Rodrigues also illustrated a new version of the novel by José Alberto Lima.[13] In 2009, the brothers Walter and Eduardo Vetillo published an adaptation by Editora Cortez.[14][15] The same year the publisher Editora Ática printed an adaptation by Ivan Jaf (script) and Luiz Ge (art),[16] In 2012, Editora Scipione (a publisher of the "Grupo Abril", which also is part of the Editora Ática), published an adaptation of the opera of Carlos Gomes, scripted by Rosana Rios, with drawings by Juliano Oliveira, inks by Sam Hart.[17]

Film adaptation

Modern fiction

In the short story "The Last of the Guaranys" by Brazilian writers Octavio Aragão and Carlos Orsi, published in the anthologies The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 3: Portraits of the Trickster (Michael Croteau, ed., Meteor House, 2012) and Tales of the Wold Newton Universe (

Titan Books, 2013),[18] Peri is one of the identities adopted by time traveler John Gribardsun (meant to be Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan)[19] in Time's Last Gift, a novel by Philip José Farmer in his Wold Newton family series.[20]

References

  1. ISBN 9788854830332
  2. ^ Moscato, Daniela Casoni [UNESP (2006-03-28). "Traços de Peri: leituras do leitor José de Alencar para a composição do indígena em sua obra O Guarani - 1857". Aleph: 109 f.
  3. ^ Cirne, Moacy (January 24, 2011) Quadrinhos - Nos braços de Peri Archived 2012-11-05 at the Wayback Machine. Revista de História da Biblioteca Nacional.
  4. ^ de Rosa, Franco (2019). Prado, Joe; Freitas da Costa, Ivan (eds.). Grande Almanaque dos Super-Heróis Brasileiros (PDF) (in Portuguese). Brazil: Chiaroscuro Studios. p. 133.
  5. ^ "O Guarany - do romance de José de Alencar" (PDF).
  6. ^ Clássicos em HQ
  7. ISBN 9788535905823
  8. ^ Carlos Patati, Flávio Braga. Almanaque dos quadrinhos. [S.l.]: Ediouro Publicações, 2006. 44 p. 9788500016905
  9. ^ Cirne, Moacy Literatura em quadrinhos no Brasil: acervo da Biblioteca Nacional. [S.l.]: Nova Fronteira, 2002. 9788520914960
  10. ISBN 9788571394612
  11. Oscar C. Kern
    . (1981).Historieta (5) "Entrevista Gedeone Malagola"
  12. ^ Toni Rodrigues, Sidney Gusman (September 13, 2012). HQ nacional de luto: morreram Naumim Aizen e Edmundo Rodrigues
  13. ^ Campos, José Alberto de Lima in Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
  14. ^ Bira Dantas (June 14, 2010)Entrevista: Walter Vetillo. Bigorna.net
  15. ^ Iara Tatiana Bonin and Daniela Ripoll (January/April, 2011). Universidade Estadual de Maringá / Revista Teoria e Prática da Educação
  16. ^ Adilson Thieghi (October 21, 2009).O Guarani Archived 2013-09-28 at the Wayback Machine. HQManiacs
  17. ^ Carlos Costa (May 10, 2012). Editora Scipione lança adaptação de O Guarani. HQManiacs
  18. ^ "The Last of the Guaranys". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
  19. ^ Dennis E. power. "Triple Tarzan - Tangle or A few incidences of time travel in the Wold Newton Universe". PJFarmer.com.
  20. ^ Carey, Christopher Paul. "Tales of the Wold Newton Universe, Part 2 of 4". Black Gate. Retrieved 30 October 2013.

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