by Jorge Amado · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070372997
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«Bahia de tous les saints» is the picaresque novel by Brazilian writer Jorge Amado, published by Folio in paperback (384 pages, in French).
The novel follows Antonio Balduino, a boy lost in northeastern Brazil who grows up between marginalization and adventure. He works as a boxer, tobacco worker, stevedore, and circus employee, and experiences loves with Lindinalva and Rosenda Roseda. A strike reveals solidarity to him and gives meaning to his struggle for liberation.
French translation by Pierre Hourcade and Michel Berveiller, published in 1981 in the Folio collection by Gallimard.
For readers interested in Brazilian literature and the social narrative of northeastern 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.
