by Jorge Amado · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401811869
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«Uniforme, frac y camisón de dormir» is a novel by Jorge Amado published in 1991 by Plaza & Janés in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Rio de Janeiro in the 1940s, against the backdrop of World War II and the Estado Novo dictatorship, the novel opens with the death of the poet and academic Antonio Bruno upon learning that the Germans have entered Paris. His vacancy at the Brazilian Academy of Letters pits a fascist colonel against a democratic general, in a ferocious satire of the elites and the world of letters.
It belongs to the Great Anthology of Universal Literature of the 20th Century, number 46. The novel was originally published in 1979 under the title «Farda fardão camisola de dormir».
For readers of satirical fiction and Brazilian literature, with an interest in mid-20th-century Brazil.
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.
