INSIGHT ABOUT BRAZIL
Rodell, Katherine
Insight About Brazil BRAZILIAN LITERATURE, an outline, by Erico Verissimo. Macmillan. $2. Reviewed by Katherine Rodell T'HIS charming and unpretentious little book will do much more than tell...
...An excellent and a delightful book...
...I am giving you this sketchy history of Brazilian literature because I am sure that the best key to the soul of a country is the works of its writers, and I know how important it is for us North and South Americana to know each other...
...Reviewed by Katherine Rodell T'HIS charming and unpretentious little book will do much more than tell you about Brazilian literature —it will tell you about Brazil...
...Its 160-some pages contribute more to a real understanding of the country and the people than do most of the scholarly tomes on Brazilian history and Vargas' "New State...
...but the value of his book is riot only that it helps us to understand a people about whom we know, lamentably little...
...Says Mr...
...Heavens no...
...Verissimo, "If I am now writing about such a thing as Brazilian literature it is not because I think it is really a vital subject, or that the writers and thinkers of my country are unusually important...
...it is also that in writing of literature he is never arty, never self-consciously critical, but always simple and unaffected...
...Of course he is right...
Vol. 9 • April 1945 • No. 17
