Domingos Olímpio
1851–1906
Biography
Domingos Olímpio Braga Cavalcanti was a Brazilian novelist, journalist, lawyer, diplomat and member of parliament. He was born at Sobral, in the northeastern state of Ceará, on 18 September 1851, and died in Rio de Janeiro on 7 October 1906. He worked as a journalist in Rio and conceived and edited Os Anais, a weekly that drew contributions from many Brazilian and Portuguese writers.
He is remembered above all for Luzia-Homem, a naturalist novel that first appeared in serial form in 1903 in the Rio newspaper O Comércio. It was reprinted many times, in cheap popular editions and in lavish illustrated ones, and a 1987 film directed by Fábio Barreto was loosely inspired by it.
The site holds Luzia-Homem, the novel for which he is best known, so it is the natural place to start with his work. Readers who come to it will find the book that has kept his name in print.
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Books
Luzia-Homem
by Domingos Olímpio
In the Ceará backlands during the great drought of 1877 to 1879, Luzia, a strong and silent woman who works like a man, lives with her mother and refuses to be a woman as the town expects. Domingos Olímpio's novel is one of the key works of the north-eastern naturalist school.…
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.