by Jorge Amado · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080703880
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«Mar Morto» is the novel by Jorge Amado, published by Flammarion in paperback in 1982 (289 pages).
Set in the port of Salvador de Bahia, the novel follows the lives of the maritime workers: stevedores, sailors and fishermen, marked by Afro-Brazilian culture and the myth of Iemanjá, the queen of the sea. Among them stands out Guma, a young skipper of a saveiro, while two outsiders try to promote social change among the people of the docks.
Novel originally published in 1936. This edition, from the GF collection (No. 388), includes the translation by N.-A. François and Th. Gómez.
Classic of Brazilian literature, recommended for readers interested in social realism, the myth of Iemanjá and port life.
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.
