by Jorge Amado · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070314379
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«Le Pays du Carnaval» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by Folio in paperback format (224 pages, in French).
The story follows Paulo Rigger, a Brazilian who returns to his country after living in Europe and rediscovers Brazil in the late 1920s: a society of contrasts, miscegenation, large rural landowners, intellectuals and an intense popular vitality. Between the carnival festival and social contradictions, the novel explores the search for identity of a country where face and mask end up becoming confused.
It is Jorge Amado's first novel, written when he was a young journalist, originally published in 1931 as «O País do Carnaval». This French edition includes a translation by Alice Raillard and belongs to the Folio collection (no. 4012).
Recommended for readers interested in twentieth-century Brazilian literature and in the narrative beginnings of one of its most celebrated authors.
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria, known as Jorge Amado, was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, including Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1976, and having been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature at least seven times. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences.
