About Jorge Amado: Jorge Leal Amado de Faria 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.
Life was good, one had only to live it.
Friends, we have a hero living among us.
Porque - eu vos digo - temos olhos de ver e olhos de não ver, depende do estado do coração de cada um.
Not even God who made us all can kill everybody at once. He kills people one by one, and the more he kills the more people are gonna be born and grow up and go on being born and growing up and mixing, and no son-of-a-bitch is gonna stop 'em!
The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.
Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.
I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.
Night was running ahead of itself.
I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.
He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or that he didn't suffer. He suffered very much, but he did not despair; he still drew nourishment from what he had been given. Bu...
I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.
