Party. Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira was born in the city of Quebrangulo, in the Brazilian state of Alagoas, on October 27, 1892, to Sebastião Ramos de Oliveira...

as Barren Lives) is a novel by twentieth-century Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos, written in 1938. It tells the cyclical story of a family of five:...

Pereira dos Santos, and based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Graciliano Ramos. It tells the story of a poverty-stricken family in the dry Brazilian...

chaired by the then already prestigious Graciliano Ramos. The older writer denied him the first prize. Ramos himself later explained his devaluation of...

The heaviest criticism came from the intellectual elite. The writer Graciliano Ramos wrote in his chronicle Traças a Esmo that football was proof of European...

Machado de Assis, Guimarães Rosa, Jorge Amado, Clarice Lispector and Graciliano Ramos; poets such as João Cabral de Melo Neto, Mário de Andrade, Carlos Drummond...

Miranda and Marcos Bernardes de Mello, besides the writers Lêdo Ivo and Graciliano Ramos. The Latin lacus, "reservoir, lake" is the origin, in the primitive...

imprisoned. Important intellectuals were also arrested, such as writer Graciliano Ramos and journalist Barão de Itararé; some were not even oppositionists...

Sigmund Freud,: 144  the book influenced writers such as John Barth, Graciliano Ramos and Dalton Trevisan, and is considered by some to be Machado's masterpiece...

and directed by Leon Hirszman, based on the novel São Bernardo by Graciliano Ramos. It stars Othon Bastos as Paulo Honório, a farmer and landowner in...

discover when in the country, writing on Carlos Drummond de Andrade e Graciliano Ramos. Perhaps the peak of Carpeaux's production was his eight-volume História...

Angústia is a book by Brazilian author Graciliano Ramos published in 1936. Tells the life of Luís da Silva, a man very stunned and confused with his own...

Rachilde  France 11 February 1860 4 April 1953 Writer Monsieur Vénus Graciliano Ramos  Brazil 27 October 1892 20 March 1953 Writer, translator Vidas secas...

has noted similarities between Manhattan Transfer and Angústia by Graciliano Ramos. Gretchen Foster has examined the influence of cinema techniques on...

throughout the hardships of the 1915-drought in Brazil in Vidas secas, by Graciliano Ramos Biruta, the dog in the homonymous short-story by Lygia Fagundes Telles...

Andrade António de Alcantâra Machado Brás, Bexiga e Barra Funda (1928) Graciliano Ramos Carlos Drummond de Andrade England Virginia Woolf "Kew Gardens" (1919)...

Neto, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Vinicius de Moraes, Cora Coralina, Graciliano Ramos, Cecília Meireles, and internationally known writers dealing with universal...

(Barren Lives), based on the book with the same name by Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos. Pereira dos Santos, named in honor of Horatio Nelson, was born in...

1992. Floriano Peixoto, second president of the Brazilian republic. Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian writer and journalist. Tiago Fernandes, former Brazilian...

city is situated in the interior of Alagoas. The Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos was its mayor in 1927. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese...

Arizona Press. ISBN 0-8165-2433-5. Euclides da Cunha, Rebellion in the Backlands (Os Sertões), 1902 Graciliano Ramos, Vidas Secas ("Barren Lives"), novel...

Roland Barthes, Clarice Lispector, Milton Hatoum, José Lins do Rego and Graciliano Ramos, among others. Some critics compare Luiz Fernando Carvalho's productions...

October 23 – Gummo Marx, American actor, comedian (d. 1977) October 27 – Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian writer (d. 1953) October 29 – Stanisław Ostrowski, President...

Santos. It is based on Memórias do Cárcere an autobiographical novel by Graciliano Ramos, about the period he was incarcerated during the Vargas Era. The film...

led to the emergence of new artists from the 1930s onwards, such as Graciliano Ramos, José Lins do Rego, José Américo de Almeida, Rachel de Queiroz, Jorge...

dog Argos Odyssey Homer Faithful dog of Odysseus. Baleia Vidas Secas Graciliano Ramos Later adapted into the 1963 Brazilian classic Vidas Secas. The dog...

José Paulo Lanyi (born 1970) José Pereira da Graça Aranha (1868–1931) Graciliano Ramos (1892–1953) João Guimarães Rosa (1908–1967) Hilda Hilst (1930–2004)...

1896) March 15 – Carl Stockdale, American actor (b. 1874) March 20 – Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian writer (b. 1892) March 21 – Toni Wolff, Swiss psychoanalyst...

Machado de Assis, João Guimarães Rosa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Graciliano Ramos, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Cecília Meireles, Clarice Lispector, José...

– Hope of Heaven Ellery Queen The Devil to Pay The Four of Hearts Graciliano Ramos – Vidas Secas (Barren Lives) Ayn Rand – Anthem Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings...