by José de Alencar · tapa blanda · ISBN 5601072405578
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«Iracema» is the novel of Brazilian Romanticism written by José de Alencar, published in paperback in Portuguese.
The work tells the love story between Iracema, an indigenous woman, and the Portuguese coloniser Martim. Their union functions as an allegory of the formation of Brazil and as a founding myth of Brazilian national identity, with poetic prose and exuberant descriptions of the tropical landscape.
The work was originally published in 1865.
For readers interested in the classics of Brazilian Romanticism and in the literature of Brazil.
José Martiniano de Alencar was a Brazilian novelist, lawyer, politician, orator, and dramatist. He is considered to be one of the most famous and influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the 19th century, and a major exponent of the literary tradition known as "Indianism". Sometimes he signed his works with the pen name Erasmo. He was patron of the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
