Joaquim Manuel de Macedo
1820–1882
Biography
Joaquim Manuel de Macedo (1820–1882) was a Brazilian doctor by training who became one of the most popular writers of his country. He worked as a teacher and journalist in Rio de Janeiro, the imperial capital, and wrote poems, plays and novels alongside those duties. He is often named as a pioneer of the Brazilian novel, and he was a familiar figure in the literary life of his time.
His romance A Moreninha, published in 1844, is his best-known work. It follows a group of young people who spend a holiday on an island in Guanabara Bay, and its plot turns on courtship, teasing and light social comedy written in a sentimental manner. The book was a great success with the public, and it is regarded as an early model of the Romantic novel in Brazil. After his death, the Brazilian Academy of Letters named him patron of one of its chairs, a recognition of his place in the nation's letters.
The site holds A Moreninha and O Moço Loiro, another of Macedo's books. Reading the two together gives a sense of how his stories of young love and city society appealed to first readers, and why he still matters to historians of Brazilian literature.
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Books
A Moreninha
by Joaquim Manuel de Macedo
A Moreninha is the first urban novel in Brazilian literature. This novel was written by Joaquim Manuel de Macedo (1820–1882), and it was first published in 1844 (the same year the author graduated in medicine) in the format of newspaper serials and later it was adapted to the…
Summary from Wikipedia: A Moreninha (novel) (CC BY-SA 4.0)O Moço Loiro
by Joaquim Manuel de Macedo
On the afternoon of 6 August 1844 in Rio de Janeiro, a fair-haired young man comes to the fore and his appearance sets in motion an intrigue of families, wills and love affairs. Macedo's second novel, after A Moreninha, is a lively, sentimental story of Rio society in the 1840s.
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.