Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant: A Novel (Library of Latin America) - Hardcover

Almeida, Manuel Antaonio De

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019511549X ISBN 13: 9780195115499

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 2000

Synopsis

First published in 1854, this novel of urban manners follows a ne'er-do-well militia sergeant through his romantic liaisons and scrapes with the law. The novel was long considered an early picaresque romance that emphasized the peculiarly roguish element in the Brazilian character.

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About the Author:

Thomas Holloway is a distinguished historian at Cornell University. His most recent book is Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a Nineteenth-Century City. Flora Sussekind is a professor at the University of Rio de Janeiro and a researcher at the Casa de Rui Barbosa Center for Research. Ronald W. Sousa is a professor in the department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Illinois, Urbana. He is a translator of Latin American fiction, as well as a literary critic and editor."

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About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 019511549X
• ISBN 13: 9780195115499
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184