by Jorge Amado · Ediciones B · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788440692115
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«Els vells mariners» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by Ediciones B in paperback format, in Catalan.
The story focuses on Commander Vasco Moscoso de Aragão, a captain of great defeat, and the need to restore the full truth about his disputed adventures. Through the memory of a narrator who admits no doubt, the novel blends the real and the imaginary, with humour and nostalgia, as it reconstructs the life of a legendary sailor.
The original edition was published in Portuguese in 1961 under the title «Os Velhos Marinheiros ou o Capitão de Longo Curso»; this Catalan version is a translation by Xavier Moral.
For readers interested in twentieth-century Brazilian narrative, humour and magical realism.
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.
