by Jorge Amado · Seix Barral. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432222009
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«Los viejos marineros» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by Seix Barral in hardcover (335 pages, in Spanish).
This volume brings together two stories with the sea as a backdrop: Vasco Moscoso de Aragón, an orphan who inherits a fortune and obtains a deep-sea captain's diploma without ever having sailed, and Quincas Berro Dagua. Both stories narrate the lives of characters who reject routine and let themselves be carried away by fantasy and extravagance.
Novel originally published in 1961 as «Os velhos marinheiros ou o capitão de longo curso». Translation by Basilio Losada. Volume 38 of the Obras Maestras de la Literatura Contemporánea collection.
For readers of Brazilian fiction with humor, magical realism and characters who defy conventional life.
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.
