by Jorge Amado · EL PAIS · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489669581
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«Los viejos marineros» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by El País in hardback (334 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Commander Vasco Moscoso de Aragón, a character whose biography wavers between real and invented feats, with the sea and women as the settings of his adventures. With Amado's characteristic ironic and realistic tone, the narrative plays with the possibility of knowing the truth and hints at the fascination and danger of that quest.
This volume belongs to the Clásicos del Siglo XX collection, number 38. The translation is by Basilio Losada and the original title, Os velhos marinheiros.
For readers of classic fiction and Brazilian literature, particularly those who enjoy humor and a magical-realist tone.
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.
