Inglês de Sousa
1853–1918
Biography
Herculano Marcos Inglês de Sousa (1853–1918) was a Brazilian lawyer, teacher, journalist, novelist and politician. He was born at Óbidos, in the state of Pará, and died in Rio de Janeiro. He was one of the founders of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, where he held chair 28, and he served as the academy's treasurer in its early years.
He first wrote under the pen name Luiz Dolzani. His novel O Coronel Sangrado, published in Santos in 1877, is credited in Portuguese-language scholarship with bringing naturalism into Brazilian fiction, and his prose shows the influence of European writers such as Eça de Queirós and Émile Zola. His reputation grew after O Missionário (1891), the novel listed on this site under his name, which brought him wide literary recognition.
Politics ran alongside his writing. He joined the Liberal Party in 1878, sat as a provincial deputy for São Paulo, and was appointed president of the provinces of Sergipe and Espírito Santo. In the national elections of March 1918, a few months before his death, he was elected federal deputy for his native Pará. Readers who come to O Missionário can place it within the career of a writer who was also a public man.
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Books
O Missionário
by Inglês de Sousa
Father Antônio de Morais, a young and ardent priest, arrives in the Amazon river town of Silves to convert the Indian peoples of the interior, with a pious scheme in his head and no knowledge of the region. Inglês de Sousa's naturalist novel of 1891 follows him as the forest…
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