Rhapsodias by Coelho Netto Henrique Maximiano (1 results)

8°, recent quarter mottled sheep over marbled boards, spine gilt with raised bands in six compartments, two green leather labels in second and fourth compartments from head, top edges rouged, other edges uncut; original lime green printed wrappers bound in (worn, remargined), red silk ribbon place marker. Partly unopened. Minor soiling on first and final leaves. Overall in very good condition. viii, 172 pp. *** FIRST EDITION of the author's first published book, a collection of short stories. This work appeared again in Rio de Janeiro and Paris, 1911, and Paris, 1923.Coelho Netto (1864-1934) was born in Caxias, Maranhão, to a Portuguese father and Indian mother. From his earliest years he was fascinated with native lore as well as the Portuguese and Latin classics; both had profound effects on his writings. He is difficult to classify, and has been called both a realist and a romanticist. Certainly he was one of the most vocal adversaries of the Modernist movement, and the Modernist authors responded by excluding his works from anthologies for many years. In the Academia Brasileira de Letras, however, he was held in such esteem that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1933. To Machado de Assis he was "dos nossos primeiros romancistas, e geralmente falando, dos nossos primeiros escritores"; to Silvio Roméro, he was one of the sixteen best Brazilian writers, and "o mais imaginoso de todos" (both quoted in Faria, pp. 126, 128).Coelho Netto left an enormous oeuvre of over 120 volumes, including novels, plays, short stories, folktales, and political and historical essays. His works have been translated into French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Swiss, Russian, Japanese, Danish and Esperanto. *** Coelho Netto, Bibliografia (1956) 2 (works are listed in chronological order; 1 is O meio, 1889, a periodical edited by Coelho Netto, suspended by the provisional government, and described as a great rarity). Coelho Netto Bibliografia (1972) 162. Not located in Porbase. Not located in Jisc. NUC: IU.