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賮鬲賷丕賳 丕賱乇賲丕賱
噩賵乇噩 兀賲丕丿賵 賰丕鬲亘 亘乇丕夭賷賱賷 賲毓乇賵賮 丨丕夭 毓賱賶 噩賵丕卅夭 毓丕賱賲賷賴 賵鬲乇賰 丕孬丕乇丕 乇丕卅毓賴 爻鬲亘賯賶 賲丕亘賯賷 丕賱兀丿亘 賵丕賱賮賳 賵丕賱賯丕乇卅
丕賱賵丕毓賷 丕賱匕賷 賷賴鬲賲 亘丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱亘爻賷胤賴 賵亘丕賱毓賵丕賱賲 丕賱孬乇賷賴 丕賱鬲賷 賷噩爻丿賴丕 丕賱兀丿亘 賵丕賱賮賳.
賯丕乇卅 賲孬賱 賴匕丕 卮睾賵賮 亘丕賱賵丕賯毓賷賴 丕賱廿噩鬲賲丕毓賷賴_ 賱丕賷賲賰賳 兀賳 賷賮賵鬲 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 噩賵乇噩 兀賲丕丿賵 丕賱匕賷 毓乇賮 亘丕賱廿賷睾丕賱 賮賷 丨賷賵丕鬲 丕賱亘爻胤丕亍
賵丕賱賲賯賴賵乇賷賳 賮噩賵乇噩 丕賲丕丿賵 氐丕丨亘( 賮鬲賷丕賳 丕賱乇賲丕賱)( 賵鬲賷乇賷夭丕 亘丕鬲爻鬲賷鬲丕) 丕賱賱匕賷賳 氐賵乇 賮賷賴賲丕 兀乇賵毓 鬲氐賵賷乇 丨賷丕丞 丕賱胤亘賯丕鬲 丕賱丿賳賷丕賮賷 丕賱亘乇丕夭賷賱 賵賲丿賳賴丕 賲孬賱 亘丕賴賷丕丕賱鬲賷 賰丕賳鬲 賴賲賴 丕賱兀賵賱 賵丕賱兀 禺賷乇 丨賷孬 卮賰賱鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱賲丿賷賳賴 丕賱丨賷夭 丕賱賲賰丕賳賷 賱兀 睾賱亘 卮禺賵氐 賵丕丨丿丕孬 毓丕賱賲 噩賵乇噩 兀賲丕丿賵 丕賱乇賵丕卅賷 .
賮賮賷 乇賵丕賷丞 (賮鬲賷丕賳 丕賱乇賲丕賱)鬲胤丕賱毓賳丕 賯氐丞 賲孬賷乇賴 鬲鬲丨丿 孬 毓賳 賲噩賲賵毓賴 賲賳 丕賱賮鬲賷丕賳 丕賱賲卮乇丿賷賳 丕賱匕賷賳 丕丨鬲乇賮賵(丕賱卮胤丕乇賴)賰賵爻賷賱賴 賱賱毓賷卮 賵丕賱丨賷丕賴 亘毓丿 兀賳 賱賮馗鬲賴賲 丕賱丿賵賱賴 賵賲丐 爻爻丕鬲賴丕 丕賱賶 賴丕賲卮 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賵丕賱賶 丨賷孬 賱丕賷毓賷卮 廿賱丕 丕賱賰賱丕亘 賵丕賱噩乇匕丕賳,賵賲毓 匕丕賱賰 賮賴賲 賱丕賷爻鬲爻賱賲賵賳 亘賱 賳乇丕賴賲 賷卮賰賱賵賳 鬲賳馗賷賲丕 賷賳鬲夭毓賵賳 亘賴 丨賯賴賲 丕賱賲賴丿賵乇 ,賵賱丕鬲賳鬲賴賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 廿賱丕 賵亘丿乇賵亘丕賱丕(夭毓賷賲 丕賱賮鬲賷丕賳) 賷賯賵丿 廿囟乇丕亘丕毓賲丕賱賷丕,賵丕賱兀爻鬲丕匕(兀丨丿 丕賱賯丕丿賴)賷乇爻賲 賱賵丨丕鬲 賮賳賷賴 乇丕卅毓賴 鬲噩爻丿 丨賷丕丞 賮鬲賷丕賳 丕賱乇賲丕賱 ,賵鬲賮鬲丨 毓賷賵賳 丕賱賳丕爻 毓賱賶 賲睾丕賲乇丕鬲賴賲 賵賲毓丕賳丕鬲賴賲.
賵亘賷賳 丕賱亘丿丕賷賴 賵丕賱賳賴丕賷賴 鬲賳爻乇丨 兀丨丿丕孬 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 賮賷 爻賷丕賯 賲賱丨賲賷 鬲鬲賵噩賴 賱睾賴 卮毓乇賷賴 丨丕賱賲賴 .
賴匕丕毓賳( 賮鬲賷丕賳 丕賱乇賲丕賱 )兀賲丕( 鬲賷夭賷夭丕 亘丕鬲賷爻鬲丕) 賮賴賷 鬲馗賴乇 賲丕乇賰爻賷丞 兀賲丕丿賵 賵丕賱鬲夭丕賲賴 賵賵賯賵賮賴 賲毓 丕賵賱卅賰 丕賱匕賷賳 兀賱賯賶 亘賴賲 丕賱毓乇賮 丕賱噩賲丕毓賷 廿賱賶 賯丕卅賲丞 兀賱賲睾囟賵亘 毓賱賷賴賲 賵匕丕賱賰 賱賲噩乇丿 兀賳賴賲 丨丕丿賵(賲賰乇賴賷賳) 毓賳 爻賱賵賰賷丕鬲 賵兀禺賱丕賯賷丕鬲 賷丐賲賳 噩賵乇噩 兀賲丕丿賵_ 賰賲丕賷丐賲賳 賰賱 賲丕乇賰爻賷 丨乇_亘兀賳賴丕賲噩乇丿 賳鬲丕噩 亘乇噩賵丕夭賷 賮乇囟鬲賴 丕賱賮乇賵賯(丕賱胤亘賯賷賴)兀賱鬲賷 賰丕賳鬲 爻丕卅丿賴 賮賷 丕賱亘乇丕夭賷賱 丌賳匕丕賰 .
廿賳 丕賱爻賷丕賯 丕賱賳丕乇賷禺賷 丕賱匕賷 賷毓賰爻 賲乇丕丨賱 丕賱氐乇丕毓 丕賱胤亘賯賷 賵丕賱匕賷 賷氐乇 兀賲丕丿賵毓賱賶 鬲爻賷賷噩 乇賵丕賷丕鬲賴 亘賴_賴賵 禺賷乇賲丕賷毓賰爻 丕賱鬲賵噩賴 丕賱賲丕乇賰爻賷 賱兀賲丕丿賵 ,賵賱賰賳 賯亘賱 兀賳 兀賳賴賷 丕賱丨丿賷孬 毓賳 兀賲丕丿賵 賷噩亘 兀賳 丕賳亘賴 廿賱賶 兀賲乇 賲賴賲 賵賴賵 兀賳 丕賱賲丕乇賰爻賷賴 賱丕鬲賳丨賱 賮賷 兀丿亘 兀賲丕丿賵 廿賱賶 賲噩乇丿 賲賳卮賵乇 丿毓丕卅賷 賲賵噩賴 囟丿 丕賱乇兀爻賲丕賱賷賴 賴賲賴 丕賱兀賵賱 賵丕賱兀禺賷乇 丕賱丿賮丕毓 毓賳 賲賯賵賲丕鬲 丕賱賵噩賵丿 丕賱賲丕丿賷 賱賱廿賳爻丕賳 .
賱丕 廿賳賴丕 亘丿賱丕 賲賳 匕丕賱賰 鬲鬲丨賵乇 賱鬲氐亘丨 亘賮囟賱 卮丕毓乇賷丞 兀賲丕丿賵 丿賮丕毓 毓賳 丕賱賯賷賲 丕賱乇賵丨賷賴 賱丿賶 丕賱亘丐爻丕亍 賵丕賱賲丨乇賵賲賷賳, 賮賮鬲賷丕賳 丕賱乇賲丕賱 賲孬賱丕 賱賷爻賵亘丐 爻丕亍 賮賯胤 賱兀賳賴賲 賮賯乇丕亍 賵賲卮乇丿賷賳 賵賱賰賳賴賲 亘丐爻丕亍 兀賰孬乇 賱兀賳賴賲 賷毓賷卮賵賳 賮賷 毓夭賱賴 賳賮爻賷賴 賱丕賮賰丕賰 賲賳賴丕 賵丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 鬲毓賰爻 噩賳亘丕廿賱賶 噩賳亘 氐乇丕毓賴賲 賲賳 兀噩賱 賱賯賲丞 丕賱毓賷卮 賵氐乇丕毓賴賲 賲賳 兀噩賱 鬲賮賰賷賰 賴匕賴 丕賱毓夭賱賴 丕賱乇賵丨賷賴 丕賱賲賮乇賵囟賴 毓賱賷賴賲 ,毓賳 胤乇賷賯 賮鬲丨 賯賳賵丕鬲 廿鬲氐丕賱 亘丕賱毓丕賱賲 廿賲丕亘丕賱賮賳 兀賵丕賱爻賷丕爻賴 兀賵丕賱孬賵乇賴 兀賵丕賱丿賷賳 .
賵賴丕噩爻 鬲賮賰賷賰 丕賱毓夭賱賴 賴匕丕 賱賷爻 賴丕噩爻 兀賲丕丿賵 賵丨丿賴 賵賱賰賳賴 賴丕噩爻 賲毓馗賲 兀丿亘丕亍 丕賲乇賷賰丕 丕賱賱丕鬲賷賳賷賴 賲孬賱 賲丕乇賰賷夭 賵賮丕乇睾丕爻 賵爻丕乇丕賲睾賵賵睾賷乇賴賲 賲賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱匕賷賳 賯丕鬲賱賵丿賵賲丕 賲賳 兀噩賱 賲噩鬲賲毓 賱丕 胤亘賯賷 丨乇 .
丕賱賵丕毓賷 丕賱匕賷 賷賴鬲賲 亘丕賱丨賷丕丞 丕賱亘爻賷胤賴 賵亘丕賱毓賵丕賱賲 丕賱孬乇賷賴 丕賱鬲賷 賷噩爻丿賴丕 丕賱兀丿亘 賵丕賱賮賳.
賯丕乇卅 賲孬賱 賴匕丕 卮睾賵賮 亘丕賱賵丕賯毓賷賴 丕賱廿噩鬲賲丕毓賷賴_ 賱丕賷賲賰賳 兀賳 賷賮賵鬲 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 噩賵乇噩 兀賲丕丿賵 丕賱匕賷 毓乇賮 亘丕賱廿賷睾丕賱 賮賷 丨賷賵丕鬲 丕賱亘爻胤丕亍
賵丕賱賲賯賴賵乇賷賳 賮噩賵乇噩 丕賲丕丿賵 氐丕丨亘( 賮鬲賷丕賳 丕賱乇賲丕賱)( 賵鬲賷乇賷夭丕 亘丕鬲爻鬲賷鬲丕) 丕賱賱匕賷賳 氐賵乇 賮賷賴賲丕 兀乇賵毓 鬲氐賵賷乇 丨賷丕丞 丕賱胤亘賯丕鬲 丕賱丿賳賷丕賮賷 丕賱亘乇丕夭賷賱 賵賲丿賳賴丕 賲孬賱 亘丕賴賷丕丕賱鬲賷 賰丕賳鬲 賴賲賴 丕賱兀賵賱 賵丕賱兀 禺賷乇 丨賷孬 卮賰賱鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱賲丿賷賳賴 丕賱丨賷夭 丕賱賲賰丕賳賷 賱兀 睾賱亘 卮禺賵氐 賵丕丨丿丕孬 毓丕賱賲 噩賵乇噩 兀賲丕丿賵 丕賱乇賵丕卅賷 .
賮賮賷 乇賵丕賷丞 (賮鬲賷丕賳 丕賱乇賲丕賱)鬲胤丕賱毓賳丕 賯氐丞 賲孬賷乇賴 鬲鬲丨丿 孬 毓賳 賲噩賲賵毓賴 賲賳 丕賱賮鬲賷丕賳 丕賱賲卮乇丿賷賳 丕賱匕賷賳 丕丨鬲乇賮賵(丕賱卮胤丕乇賴)賰賵爻賷賱賴 賱賱毓賷卮 賵丕賱丨賷丕賴 亘毓丿 兀賳 賱賮馗鬲賴賲 丕賱丿賵賱賴 賵賲丐 爻爻丕鬲賴丕 丕賱賶 賴丕賲卮 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賵丕賱賶 丨賷孬 賱丕賷毓賷卮 廿賱丕 丕賱賰賱丕亘 賵丕賱噩乇匕丕賳,賵賲毓 匕丕賱賰 賮賴賲 賱丕賷爻鬲爻賱賲賵賳 亘賱 賳乇丕賴賲 賷卮賰賱賵賳 鬲賳馗賷賲丕 賷賳鬲夭毓賵賳 亘賴 丨賯賴賲 丕賱賲賴丿賵乇 ,賵賱丕鬲賳鬲賴賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 廿賱丕 賵亘丿乇賵亘丕賱丕(夭毓賷賲 丕賱賮鬲賷丕賳) 賷賯賵丿 廿囟乇丕亘丕毓賲丕賱賷丕,賵丕賱兀爻鬲丕匕(兀丨丿 丕賱賯丕丿賴)賷乇爻賲 賱賵丨丕鬲 賮賳賷賴 乇丕卅毓賴 鬲噩爻丿 丨賷丕丞 賮鬲賷丕賳 丕賱乇賲丕賱 ,賵鬲賮鬲丨 毓賷賵賳 丕賱賳丕爻 毓賱賶 賲睾丕賲乇丕鬲賴賲 賵賲毓丕賳丕鬲賴賲.
賵亘賷賳 丕賱亘丿丕賷賴 賵丕賱賳賴丕賷賴 鬲賳爻乇丨 兀丨丿丕孬 丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 賮賷 爻賷丕賯 賲賱丨賲賷 鬲鬲賵噩賴 賱睾賴 卮毓乇賷賴 丨丕賱賲賴 .
賴匕丕毓賳( 賮鬲賷丕賳 丕賱乇賲丕賱 )兀賲丕( 鬲賷夭賷夭丕 亘丕鬲賷爻鬲丕) 賮賴賷 鬲馗賴乇 賲丕乇賰爻賷丞 兀賲丕丿賵 賵丕賱鬲夭丕賲賴 賵賵賯賵賮賴 賲毓 丕賵賱卅賰 丕賱匕賷賳 兀賱賯賶 亘賴賲 丕賱毓乇賮 丕賱噩賲丕毓賷 廿賱賶 賯丕卅賲丞 兀賱賲睾囟賵亘 毓賱賷賴賲 賵匕丕賱賰 賱賲噩乇丿 兀賳賴賲 丨丕丿賵(賲賰乇賴賷賳) 毓賳 爻賱賵賰賷丕鬲 賵兀禺賱丕賯賷丕鬲 賷丐賲賳 噩賵乇噩 兀賲丕丿賵_ 賰賲丕賷丐賲賳 賰賱 賲丕乇賰爻賷 丨乇_亘兀賳賴丕賲噩乇丿 賳鬲丕噩 亘乇噩賵丕夭賷 賮乇囟鬲賴 丕賱賮乇賵賯(丕賱胤亘賯賷賴)兀賱鬲賷 賰丕賳鬲 爻丕卅丿賴 賮賷 丕賱亘乇丕夭賷賱 丌賳匕丕賰 .
廿賳 丕賱爻賷丕賯 丕賱賳丕乇賷禺賷 丕賱匕賷 賷毓賰爻 賲乇丕丨賱 丕賱氐乇丕毓 丕賱胤亘賯賷 賵丕賱匕賷 賷氐乇 兀賲丕丿賵毓賱賶 鬲爻賷賷噩 乇賵丕賷丕鬲賴 亘賴_賴賵 禺賷乇賲丕賷毓賰爻 丕賱鬲賵噩賴 丕賱賲丕乇賰爻賷 賱兀賲丕丿賵 ,賵賱賰賳 賯亘賱 兀賳 兀賳賴賷 丕賱丨丿賷孬 毓賳 兀賲丕丿賵 賷噩亘 兀賳 丕賳亘賴 廿賱賶 兀賲乇 賲賴賲 賵賴賵 兀賳 丕賱賲丕乇賰爻賷賴 賱丕鬲賳丨賱 賮賷 兀丿亘 兀賲丕丿賵 廿賱賶 賲噩乇丿 賲賳卮賵乇 丿毓丕卅賷 賲賵噩賴 囟丿 丕賱乇兀爻賲丕賱賷賴 賴賲賴 丕賱兀賵賱 賵丕賱兀禺賷乇 丕賱丿賮丕毓 毓賳 賲賯賵賲丕鬲 丕賱賵噩賵丿 丕賱賲丕丿賷 賱賱廿賳爻丕賳 .
賱丕 廿賳賴丕 亘丿賱丕 賲賳 匕丕賱賰 鬲鬲丨賵乇 賱鬲氐亘丨 亘賮囟賱 卮丕毓乇賷丞 兀賲丕丿賵 丿賮丕毓 毓賳 丕賱賯賷賲 丕賱乇賵丨賷賴 賱丿賶 丕賱亘丐爻丕亍 賵丕賱賲丨乇賵賲賷賳, 賮賮鬲賷丕賳 丕賱乇賲丕賱 賲孬賱丕 賱賷爻賵亘丐 爻丕亍 賮賯胤 賱兀賳賴賲 賮賯乇丕亍 賵賲卮乇丿賷賳 賵賱賰賳賴賲 亘丐爻丕亍 兀賰孬乇 賱兀賳賴賲 賷毓賷卮賵賳 賮賷 毓夭賱賴 賳賮爻賷賴 賱丕賮賰丕賰 賲賳賴丕 賵丕賱乇賵丕賷賴 鬲毓賰爻 噩賳亘丕廿賱賶 噩賳亘 氐乇丕毓賴賲 賲賳 兀噩賱 賱賯賲丞 丕賱毓賷卮 賵氐乇丕毓賴賲 賲賳 兀噩賱 鬲賮賰賷賰 賴匕賴 丕賱毓夭賱賴 丕賱乇賵丨賷賴 丕賱賲賮乇賵囟賴 毓賱賷賴賲 ,毓賳 胤乇賷賯 賮鬲丨 賯賳賵丕鬲 廿鬲氐丕賱 亘丕賱毓丕賱賲 廿賲丕亘丕賱賮賳 兀賵丕賱爻賷丕爻賴 兀賵丕賱孬賵乇賴 兀賵丕賱丿賷賳 .
賵賴丕噩爻 鬲賮賰賷賰 丕賱毓夭賱賴 賴匕丕 賱賷爻 賴丕噩爻 兀賲丕丿賵 賵丨丿賴 賵賱賰賳賴 賴丕噩爻 賲毓馗賲 兀丿亘丕亍 丕賲乇賷賰丕 丕賱賱丕鬲賷賳賷賴 賲孬賱 賲丕乇賰賷夭 賵賮丕乇睾丕爻 賵爻丕乇丕賲睾賵賵睾賷乇賴賲 賲賳 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱匕賷賳 賯丕鬲賱賵丿賵賲丕 賲賳 兀噩賱 賲噩鬲賲毓 賱丕 胤亘賯賷 丨乇 .
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First published November 1, 1937
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Jorge Amado
151听books1,521听followersJorge Amado was a modernist Brazilian writer. He remains one of the most read and translated Brazilian authors, second only to Paulo Coelho. In his style of fictional novelist, however, there is no parallel in Brazil. His work was further popularized by highly successful film and TV adaptations.
He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1961 until his death in 2001. In 1994, his work was recognized with the Cam玫es Prize, the most prestigious award in Portuguese literature.
His literary work presents two distinct phases. In the first, there is a clear social critic and political focus, with works such as Captains of the Sands and Sea of Death standing out.
In his more mature phase, he adopts an aspect of good-humored and sensual chronicler of his people, abandoning ideological motivations, with works such as Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands.
He was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1961 until his death in 2001. In 1994, his work was recognized with the Cam玫es Prize, the most prestigious award in Portuguese literature.
His literary work presents two distinct phases. In the first, there is a clear social critic and political focus, with works such as Captains of the Sands and Sea of Death standing out.
In his more mature phase, he adopts an aspect of good-humored and sensual chronicler of his people, abandoning ideological motivations, with works such as Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands.
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November 30, 2024
Jorge Amado was only 25 when he wrote: "Captains of the Sands" in 1937.
This novel takes place in Salvador de Bahia, the former capital of Brazil and a point of convergence, at the time of slavery, of European, African, and Amerindian cultures.
The lowlands of this city, steeped in history and home to the most diverse communities, will inspire the great Brazilian novelist throughout his career. The fate of the underprivileged, the living conditions of those left behind, and social injustices will permeate this writer's work, which is close to the people.
We meet a group of teenagers left to their devices in an abandoned warehouse at the end of a sandy no man's land.
Volta-Seca, Sem-Pernas, The Professor, Pirulito, and The Cat are the nicknames they attribute to each other. Only a scarred blond, their leader Pedro Bala, kept his late father's name, the union leader of the dockers trampled by the cavalry ten years earlier.
These abandoned children only have the resources to survive. Begging and theft share their daily lives. Their dagger and razor dexterity compensate for their lack of strength against adults. Their cooperation, friendship, and great solidarity allow these young boys who need love to cling to individual humanity despite everything.
The only adult to know their landmark, Father Jos茅 Pedro, has all their confidence. Some are sensitive to his message of peace. But the vast majority do not have the soul of an altar boy, and primary instincts often take precedence over reason.
The reader will nevertheless appreciate the wanderings of these naughty kids in the heat of the flowery streets of Bahia.
An enormous gap then appears between the impoverished slums of the port and the wealthy residences in the upper part of the city. By small touches, without forcing the line, the writer gives the impression of idealizing the Captains of the Sands; he does not glorify their exactions but is not far from finding excuses for them in the face of the cruel world imposed on them.
Nearly a century later, the disparities within Brazilian society are hardly less glaring, and the mass protests in the country's major cities in recent weeks would likely have inspired the late Amado's militant pen.
This novel takes place in Salvador de Bahia, the former capital of Brazil and a point of convergence, at the time of slavery, of European, African, and Amerindian cultures.
The lowlands of this city, steeped in history and home to the most diverse communities, will inspire the great Brazilian novelist throughout his career. The fate of the underprivileged, the living conditions of those left behind, and social injustices will permeate this writer's work, which is close to the people.
We meet a group of teenagers left to their devices in an abandoned warehouse at the end of a sandy no man's land.
Volta-Seca, Sem-Pernas, The Professor, Pirulito, and The Cat are the nicknames they attribute to each other. Only a scarred blond, their leader Pedro Bala, kept his late father's name, the union leader of the dockers trampled by the cavalry ten years earlier.
These abandoned children only have the resources to survive. Begging and theft share their daily lives. Their dagger and razor dexterity compensate for their lack of strength against adults. Their cooperation, friendship, and great solidarity allow these young boys who need love to cling to individual humanity despite everything.
The only adult to know their landmark, Father Jos茅 Pedro, has all their confidence. Some are sensitive to his message of peace. But the vast majority do not have the soul of an altar boy, and primary instincts often take precedence over reason.
The reader will nevertheless appreciate the wanderings of these naughty kids in the heat of the flowery streets of Bahia.
An enormous gap then appears between the impoverished slums of the port and the wealthy residences in the upper part of the city. By small touches, without forcing the line, the writer gives the impression of idealizing the Captains of the Sands; he does not glorify their exactions but is not far from finding excuses for them in the face of the cruel world imposed on them.
Nearly a century later, the disparities within Brazilian society are hardly less glaring, and the mass protests in the country's major cities in recent weeks would likely have inspired the late Amado's militant pen.
January 24, 2022
Em Setembro de 2014 fui a Salvador da Bahia. Esperei muita coisa do Brasil e da Am茅rica do Sul, mas esqueci-me da literatura. Isto 茅, a minha ideia estava toda errada: no meio da pobreza, que n茫o 茅 pouca, h谩 uma beleza pulsante, uma bondade comovente por entre as dificuldades e a emerg锚ncia de um orgulho triste, o que adv茅m de amarmos a terra que sabemos condenada. Parece que na Terra vem tudo em dois punhados: algo de bom e algo de mau, e a beleza 茅 o que emerge do modo como o povo joga com estas duas energias.
Quando leio romances sul-americanos, fico sempre assombrada por quanto Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez, Isabel Allende e agora Jorge Amado extraem destes solos. Aten莽茫o que a Isabel, assim como a Laura Esqu铆vel, al茅m de excelentes romancistas que retratam os costumes da sua gente鈥� Mas h谩 algo de visceral na escrita do Garbo e do Amado. Sem d煤vida que Jorge Amado 茅 para seguir.
Dizia que, em Setembro de 2014, fui a Salvador da Bahia. Podem ler sobre isso
... Fiquei no Pestana Bahia, que 茅 um cinco estrelas com avisos sobre a bicharada que pode entrar pela janela 脿 beira da praia do Rio Vermelho. Na altura, algu茅m disse que aquela era a praia dos Capit茫es da Areia. N茫o sabia quem eram os Capit茫es da Areia e agora, depois de ler sobre as suas aventuras, jamais poderei deixar de os associar ao modo como a noite ca铆a nesse areal no Hemisf茅rio Sul.
Jorge Amado foi bacharel em Direito, por isso um 鈥渄ot么rzinho鈥�, oriundo de um mundo a l茅guas de dist芒ncia do areal dos Capit茫es da Areia. Para vos situar: os Capit茫es da Areia s茫o os 贸rf茫os, as crian莽as maltratadas, os negligenciados, ignorados e esquecidos de Salvador da Bahia. Unidos sob a capitania de Pedro Bala, um moleque de 15 anos, formam os Capit茫es da Areia: primeiro um bando de ladr玫es, depois uma tropa de choque a favor das greves dos pobres, quando o seu capit茫o descobre que o pr贸prio pai era estivador e morreu em greve pelos direitos dos seus.
Cada um dos Capit茫es da Areia tem uma hist贸ria de abandono, viol锚ncia e sofrimento. S茫o felizes na liberdade, mas procuram o seu rumo: Gato 茅 feliz com a brilhantina no cabelo e os sapatos engraxados, e dorme com Dalva, uma prostituta pelo menos duas d茅cadas mais velha do que o menino. Sem Pernas foi sovado e humilhado pela pol铆cia por ser coxo, vive no terror de voltar a ver-se nessa vulnerabilidade, e por isso se torna o mais arisco de todos, embora tamb茅m ele n茫o seja imune a rasgos de verdadeira humanidade. Professor quer ser pintor: d谩 cabo dos olhos 脿 luz das velas, no trapiche, a passar em revista os livros a que consegue deitar a m茫o, e a l锚-los para os outros capit茫es. Jo茫o Grande 茅 um preto enorme, que chamam de burro mas que 茅 aquele cujo cora莽茫o e a moral parecem mais intactos. Pirulito tem voca莽茫o religiosa; influenciado pelas palavras amigas do Padre Jos茅 Pedro, que 茅 contra meterem os meninos no reformat贸rio da cidade, onde apenas receberiam surras e passariam fome, sonha em vir a trajar uma batina. Tantos outros, entre os quais surge Dora, uma menina cuja m茫e sucumbiu 脿 epidemia de var铆ola no seu morro, e que se junta aos meninos, t茫o corajosa quanto eles, e vira a primeira Capit茫 da Areia. Mas nem todos s茫o felizes sem m茫e, sem fam铆lia, sem um carinho na cabe莽a, um aconchego na hora de se irem deitar. Nem todos s茫o felizes deitados por entre os ratos, escondidos da pol铆cia e do reformat贸rio, a aplicar golpes em quem tem mais do que eles, a enganar os marinheiros com baralhos marcados no cais, a recolher n铆queis por desenhar a giz na cal莽ada da cidade e a recorrerem 脿s macumbas da M茫e de Santo, don'Aninha sempre que um menino cai doente.
Os ideais comunistas pulsam aqui, pelo que n茫o 茅 de estranhar que o livro tenha sido apreendido ap贸s o seu lan莽amento, em 1937, e queimados cerca de 800 exemplares em pra莽a p煤blica. Mas n茫o 茅 apenas a pol铆tica que mexe com a sociedade baiana nessa 茅poca: Jorge Amado foi mais longe. Falou de pederastia, de sexo, de sodomia, de oficiais malvados e de directores de reformat贸rios ambiciosos e cru茅is. Tudo isto ofendeu a 茅poca鈥� O rico na abund芒ncia e o pobre descal莽o, no morro. O rico com a sua vacina para a var铆ola e o pobre no terreiro, a suplicar a Omolu pelas vidas dos seus que caem de bexiga鈥�
Infelizmente, o Brasil ainda n茫o mudou tanto assim desde este retrato de desigualdade que Jorge Amado nos presenteia.脡 um dos livros mais belos que li na vida, de hero铆smo, amadurecimento, bondade e injusti莽a. Espero que o Brasil encontre o seu caminho rumo ao bem-estar do seu povo, para que os corruptos sejam afastados, o povo deixe de morrer nas urg锚ncias da sa煤de p煤blica e a m茅dia de assassinatos em brigas em Salvador deixe de ser de 18 pessoas por semana, como era em Setembro de 2014.
Quando leio romances sul-americanos, fico sempre assombrada por quanto Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez, Isabel Allende e agora Jorge Amado extraem destes solos. Aten莽茫o que a Isabel, assim como a Laura Esqu铆vel, al茅m de excelentes romancistas que retratam os costumes da sua gente鈥� Mas h谩 algo de visceral na escrita do Garbo e do Amado. Sem d煤vida que Jorge Amado 茅 para seguir.
Dizia que, em Setembro de 2014, fui a Salvador da Bahia. Podem ler sobre isso
... Fiquei no Pestana Bahia, que 茅 um cinco estrelas com avisos sobre a bicharada que pode entrar pela janela 脿 beira da praia do Rio Vermelho. Na altura, algu茅m disse que aquela era a praia dos Capit茫es da Areia. N茫o sabia quem eram os Capit茫es da Areia e agora, depois de ler sobre as suas aventuras, jamais poderei deixar de os associar ao modo como a noite ca铆a nesse areal no Hemisf茅rio Sul.
Jorge Amado foi bacharel em Direito, por isso um 鈥渄ot么rzinho鈥�, oriundo de um mundo a l茅guas de dist芒ncia do areal dos Capit茫es da Areia. Para vos situar: os Capit茫es da Areia s茫o os 贸rf茫os, as crian莽as maltratadas, os negligenciados, ignorados e esquecidos de Salvador da Bahia. Unidos sob a capitania de Pedro Bala, um moleque de 15 anos, formam os Capit茫es da Areia: primeiro um bando de ladr玫es, depois uma tropa de choque a favor das greves dos pobres, quando o seu capit茫o descobre que o pr贸prio pai era estivador e morreu em greve pelos direitos dos seus.
Cada um dos Capit茫es da Areia tem uma hist贸ria de abandono, viol锚ncia e sofrimento. S茫o felizes na liberdade, mas procuram o seu rumo: Gato 茅 feliz com a brilhantina no cabelo e os sapatos engraxados, e dorme com Dalva, uma prostituta pelo menos duas d茅cadas mais velha do que o menino. Sem Pernas foi sovado e humilhado pela pol铆cia por ser coxo, vive no terror de voltar a ver-se nessa vulnerabilidade, e por isso se torna o mais arisco de todos, embora tamb茅m ele n茫o seja imune a rasgos de verdadeira humanidade. Professor quer ser pintor: d谩 cabo dos olhos 脿 luz das velas, no trapiche, a passar em revista os livros a que consegue deitar a m茫o, e a l锚-los para os outros capit茫es. Jo茫o Grande 茅 um preto enorme, que chamam de burro mas que 茅 aquele cujo cora莽茫o e a moral parecem mais intactos. Pirulito tem voca莽茫o religiosa; influenciado pelas palavras amigas do Padre Jos茅 Pedro, que 茅 contra meterem os meninos no reformat贸rio da cidade, onde apenas receberiam surras e passariam fome, sonha em vir a trajar uma batina. Tantos outros, entre os quais surge Dora, uma menina cuja m茫e sucumbiu 脿 epidemia de var铆ola no seu morro, e que se junta aos meninos, t茫o corajosa quanto eles, e vira a primeira Capit茫 da Areia. Mas nem todos s茫o felizes sem m茫e, sem fam铆lia, sem um carinho na cabe莽a, um aconchego na hora de se irem deitar. Nem todos s茫o felizes deitados por entre os ratos, escondidos da pol铆cia e do reformat贸rio, a aplicar golpes em quem tem mais do que eles, a enganar os marinheiros com baralhos marcados no cais, a recolher n铆queis por desenhar a giz na cal莽ada da cidade e a recorrerem 脿s macumbas da M茫e de Santo, don'Aninha sempre que um menino cai doente.
Os ideais comunistas pulsam aqui, pelo que n茫o 茅 de estranhar que o livro tenha sido apreendido ap贸s o seu lan莽amento, em 1937, e queimados cerca de 800 exemplares em pra莽a p煤blica. Mas n茫o 茅 apenas a pol铆tica que mexe com a sociedade baiana nessa 茅poca: Jorge Amado foi mais longe. Falou de pederastia, de sexo, de sodomia, de oficiais malvados e de directores de reformat贸rios ambiciosos e cru茅is. Tudo isto ofendeu a 茅poca鈥� O rico na abund芒ncia e o pobre descal莽o, no morro. O rico com a sua vacina para a var铆ola e o pobre no terreiro, a suplicar a Omolu pelas vidas dos seus que caem de bexiga鈥�
Infelizmente, o Brasil ainda n茫o mudou tanto assim desde este retrato de desigualdade que Jorge Amado nos presenteia.脡 um dos livros mais belos que li na vida, de hero铆smo, amadurecimento, bondade e injusti莽a. Espero que o Brasil encontre o seu caminho rumo ao bem-estar do seu povo, para que os corruptos sejam afastados, o povo deixe de morrer nas urg锚ncias da sa煤de p煤blica e a m茅dia de assassinatos em brigas em Salvador deixe de ser de 18 pessoas por semana, como era em Setembro de 2014.
March 21, 2022
"Legless stood stock still...his hand to his face at the spot where Dona Ester had kissed him...Only the soft caress on his face...In the whole universe there was only the soft feel of that maternal kiss on Legless鈥檚 face."
The newspaper articles framing Jorge Amado鈥檚 Captains of the Sands provide a touch of realism while introducing the underlying conditions and hardships facing a group of orphans in Bahia. I liked this introduction and the first number of chapters that chronicled the exploits and streets smarts of the Captains of the Sands. This group is made up of about 100 youths who sleep in an abandoned warehouse and eke out a starvation existence by thieving. In the various chapters, the focus shifts between one of several characters in the gang. This makes it feel like a collection of stories rather than a novel. The pretext that this is an objective documentation of events also falls away with each successive story. Through it all, though, there is a sense that there are no alternatives for these orphans if they want to survive. They are led by Pedro Bala (Bullet).
It took me quite some time to come to terms with the leader鈥檚 casual rape of a 15-year old girl. For a while, I tried to convince myself that we were not meant to approve of Bullet or the actions of the other Captains of the Sands. Cruelty is not a stranger in their lives. Why should they be expected to treat others with a humanity that is denied to them? However, with no more mention of the assault (he later thinks about his sport of 鈥榩ulling little black girls onto the sand鈥� to have his way with them as different than his love for Dora), the narrative moves forward. Worse yet, it is clear that we are meant to admire Bullet. Frankly, to have him romanticized after that is galling.
What was still compelling was the inability of any of the other orphans to achieve their dreams. They recognize that such dreams are impossible and sabotage them if there鈥檚 a chance at them coming true. For instance, at one point, Legless is taken into a home with a woman who treats him like a mother. Instead of accepting the love he has yearned for he lets the gang know how best to rob the house and disappears. When the Professor鈥檚 artistic skill is admired by a man who is in a position to help him with his art, the Professor throws the man鈥檚 card away and tells Bullet that all they鈥檒l ever be is thieves. Though some of the gang including the Professor move away from the gang near the end in order to chase after their dreams, a pervading feeling remains that nothing has changed the way a class-conscious society looks down on the less fortunate. That鈥檚 probably why the very last pages of Captains of the Sands resound with such revolutionary fervor. That was the biggest strength of this work. More than anything else, Amado wanted the world to understand the suffering of the Bahian people.
The newspaper articles framing Jorge Amado鈥檚 Captains of the Sands provide a touch of realism while introducing the underlying conditions and hardships facing a group of orphans in Bahia. I liked this introduction and the first number of chapters that chronicled the exploits and streets smarts of the Captains of the Sands. This group is made up of about 100 youths who sleep in an abandoned warehouse and eke out a starvation existence by thieving. In the various chapters, the focus shifts between one of several characters in the gang. This makes it feel like a collection of stories rather than a novel. The pretext that this is an objective documentation of events also falls away with each successive story. Through it all, though, there is a sense that there are no alternatives for these orphans if they want to survive. They are led by Pedro Bala (Bullet).
It took me quite some time to come to terms with the leader鈥檚 casual rape of a 15-year old girl. For a while, I tried to convince myself that we were not meant to approve of Bullet or the actions of the other Captains of the Sands. Cruelty is not a stranger in their lives. Why should they be expected to treat others with a humanity that is denied to them? However, with no more mention of the assault (he later thinks about his sport of 鈥榩ulling little black girls onto the sand鈥� to have his way with them as different than his love for Dora), the narrative moves forward. Worse yet, it is clear that we are meant to admire Bullet. Frankly, to have him romanticized after that is galling.
What was still compelling was the inability of any of the other orphans to achieve their dreams. They recognize that such dreams are impossible and sabotage them if there鈥檚 a chance at them coming true. For instance, at one point, Legless is taken into a home with a woman who treats him like a mother. Instead of accepting the love he has yearned for he lets the gang know how best to rob the house and disappears. When the Professor鈥檚 artistic skill is admired by a man who is in a position to help him with his art, the Professor throws the man鈥檚 card away and tells Bullet that all they鈥檒l ever be is thieves. Though some of the gang including the Professor move away from the gang near the end in order to chase after their dreams, a pervading feeling remains that nothing has changed the way a class-conscious society looks down on the less fortunate. That鈥檚 probably why the very last pages of Captains of the Sands resound with such revolutionary fervor. That was the biggest strength of this work. More than anything else, Amado wanted the world to understand the suffering of the Bahian people.
August 10, 2017
*4.5*
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August 25, 2023
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乇賵丕賷丞 賱賲 鬲賰賳 賮賷 丕賱丨爻亘丕賳 乇卮丨賴丕 賵 兀毓丕乇賴丕 賱賷 氐丿賷賯 賵 賰丕賳 鬲乇卮賷丨 賲賵賮賯 噩丿賸丕
兀賳丕 賮賯胤 賲爻鬲賲鬲毓 亘丕賱乇丨賱丞 丕賱鬲賷 兀禺匕鬲賳賷 賲賳 爻乇賷乇賷 廿賱賷 卮賵丕乇毓 亘丕賴賷丕 賮賷 丕賱亘乇丕夭賷賱.
賱兀賯囟賷 賵賯鬲賷 賲毓 賮鬲賷丕賳 丕賱乇賲丕賱 賮賷 賲爻丕賲乇丕鬲賴賲 丕賱賱賷賱賷丞 賮賷 丕賱賲爻鬲賵丿毓
兀賵 鬲丿乇亘賴賲 毓賱賷 丕賱賰丕亘賵賷乇丕 賮賷 丕賱賲乇賮兀.
丕賵 爻乇賯丕鬲賴賲 丕賱毓丿賷丿丞.
丕賵 賮賷 爻乇賷乇 丿丕賱賮丕 賲毓 丕賱賴乇 賵 賮賷 卮丕乇毓 丕賱毓丕賴乇丕鬲
丕賵 賲毓 丕賱兀爻鬲丕匕 賮賷 乇賰賳賴 丕賱賲賮囟賱 賲毓 賰鬲亘賴 丕賱毓丿賷丿丞 賵 賲毓賴 毓賳丿賲丕 賷乇爻賲 賱賵丨丞 賲賳 賱賵丨丕鬲賴 丕賱乇丕卅毓丞
丕賵 賲毓 爻賰乇 丕賱卮毓賷乇 賮賷 乇賰賳賴 兀孬賳丕亍 鬲毓亘丿賴 賱賱毓匕乇丕亍 賵 丕賱賲爻賷丨 丕賱胤賮賱 丕賱賲卮毓 賳賵乇賸丕
丕賵 賲毓 丕賱賰賵毓 丕賱賳丕卮賮 賵 賱賲亘賷丕賵 丕孬賳丕亍 賲胤丕乇丿鬲賴賲 賱賱亘賵賱賷爻
丕賵 賲毓 丕賱噩亘丞 丕賱賱胤賷賮丞 兀孬賳丕亍 鬲毓賱賲賴 丕賱爻丕賲亘丕 賵 廿丨賷丕亍賴 賱賱兀賮乇丕丨 丕賱毓丿賷丿丞
兀賵 賲賷鬲 賲毓 賯賱賷賱 丕賱毓乇噩 毓賱賷 爻賮丨 丕賱噩亘賱 亘爻亘亘 賰乇丕賴賷鬲賳丕 賱賱毓丕賱賲
賴匕丕 廿亘丿丕毓 賲賳 賳賵毓 丌禺乇 鬲賲丕賲賸丕 賴匕丕 廿亘丿丕毓 廿丨賷丕亍 毓丕賱賲 賰丕賲賱丞 賵 卮禺氐賷丕鬲 亘兀賰賲賱賴丕 丨鬲賷 丕賳賳賷 丕鬲匕賰乇 兀爻賲丕亍賴賲 噩賲賷毓賸丕 丕賱丌賳
賷丕 賱賴丕 賲賳 乇丨賱丞 噩賲賷賱丞 賵 賲賲賷夭丞
賷丕 賱賴 賲賳 兀爻賱賵亘 乇丕卅毓 賵 爻賱爻 丕賱爻賴賱 丕賱賲賲鬲賳毓 亘丨賯
賷丕 賱賴 賲賳 賵氐賮 爻丕丨乇 賷賳賯賱賰 賱亘賱丿 丌禺乇 乇睾賲賸丕 毓賳 兀賳賮賰 賱鬲爻鬲賲鬲毓 亘丕賱乇丨賱丞 乇睾賲賸丕 毓賳 兀賳賮賰 丕賷囟賸丕 !!!
乇賵丕賷丞 賱賲 鬲賰賳 賮賷 丕賱丨爻亘丕賳 乇卮丨賴丕 賵 兀毓丕乇賴丕 賱賷 氐丿賷賯 賵 賰丕賳 鬲乇卮賷丨 賲賵賮賯 噩丿賸丕
August 19, 2024
Although 'Captains of the Sands' reminded me of the Social realism, the books about class struggle from the Soviet era, the author creates a series of vivid portraits of his characters - a gang of homeless children and teenagers on the streets of Bahia in 1930s. Instead of having a childhood every day they fight to survive, sometimes armed with a knife. They are criminals and sinners, the author does not idealise them and their way of life, but he makes it clear that they are victims of social injustice. They have only one another and at the end of the day, are just frightened children inside longing for a little love and warmth but forced to face the cruel reality like grown-up men.
'Through the haze of smoke and dust, we find beauty and poetry in the desolation of the world.'
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'The children of the streets are warriors in the making, their innocence tempered by fire and grit'.
'Through the haze of smoke and dust, we find beauty and poetry in the desolation of the world.'
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'The children of the streets are warriors in the making, their innocence tempered by fire and grit'.
June 12, 2024
RTC
My 15th stop on the world tour took me to the sandy beaches and impoverished areas of Brazil. However I wish I鈥檇 have made a different choice for this gorgeous country with such rich culture and intriguing history.
The story was good but didn鈥檛 reflect the cultural aspects of Brazil the way other world tour books have. Nevertheless, an interesting story.
My 15th stop on the world tour took me to the sandy beaches and impoverished areas of Brazil. However I wish I鈥檇 have made a different choice for this gorgeous country with such rich culture and intriguing history.
The story was good but didn鈥檛 reflect the cultural aspects of Brazil the way other world tour books have. Nevertheless, an interesting story.
April 18, 2019
危蔚 渭喂伪 蔚纬魏伪蟿伪位蔚喂渭渭苇谓畏 伪蟺慰胃萎魏畏 蟿畏蟼 螠蟺伪委伪蟼 蟽蟿畏谓 螔蟻伪味喂位委伪 味慰蠀谓 慰喂 魏伪蟺蔚蟿维谓喂慰喂 蟿畏蟼 维渭渭慰蠀. 螚 蠁慰尾蔚蟻萎 魏伪喂 未喂伪尾蠈畏蟿畏 蟽蠀渭渭慰蟻委伪 蟿慰蠀 螤苇谓蟿蟻慰 螠蟺维位伪. 螝伪谓苇谓伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿伪 渭苇位畏 蟿畏蟼 未蔚谓 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺维谓蠅 伪蟺蠈 15 蠂蟻慰谓蠋谓 魏喂 蠈渭蠅蟼 蔚委谓伪喂 慰 蠁蠈尾慰蟼 魏伪喂 蟿蟻蠈渭慰蟼 蟿畏蟼 蟺蠈位畏蟼 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀 位喂渭伪谓喂慰蠉.
螚 伪蟽蟿蠀谓慰渭委伪 胃苇位蔚喂 谓伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 蟽蠀位位维尾蔚喂, 慰 螖喂蔚蠀胃蠀谓蟿萎蟼 蟿慰蠀 伪谓伪渭慰蟻蠁蠅蟿畏蟻委慰蠀 胃苇位蔚喂 谓伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 尾伪蟽伪谓委蟽蔚喂 魏伪喂 慰 螒尾尾维蟼 谓伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 未蔚委尉蔚喂 蠈蟿喂 畏 魏伪位慰蟽蠉谓畏 蟽蟿慰谓 魏蠈蟽渭慰 蠀蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂 魏伪喂 蔚委谓伪喂 蠂蟻苇慰蟼 蟿慰蠀蟼 谓伪 蟿畏谓 尾蟻慰蠀谓....
螣 围蠈蟻蠂蔚 螒渭维谓蟿慰 纬蟻维蠁蔚喂 苇谓伪 尾喂尾位委慰 纬喂伪 蟿畏谓 伪胃苇伪蟿畏 蟺位蔚蠀蟻维 蟿畏蟼 螔蟻伪味喂位委伪蟼. 螘魏蔚委 蟺慰蠀 尾蟻委蟽魏慰谓蟿伪喂 蟺蟻慰伪纬蠅纬慰委, 蟺蠈蟻谓蔚蟼, 蔚魏尾喂伪蟽蟿苇蟼 魏伪喂 未慰位慰蠁蠈谓慰喂. 危蔚 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰谓 魏蠈蟽渭慰 蟿伪 蟺伪喂未喂维 蟿畏蟼 蟽蠀渭渭慰蟻委伪蟼 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 魏畏未蔚渭蠈谓蔚蟼, 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 渭慰委蟻伪 蔚纬魏伪蟿伪位蔚喂渭渭苇谓伪 蟽蟿畏谓 蠁蟿蠋蠂蔚喂伪 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 伪谓苇蠂蔚喂伪 蟺蟻慰蟽蟺伪胃慰蠉谓 谓伪 伪蠁慰渭慰喂蠅胃慰蠉谓 蟽蔚 苇谓伪 蟺蔚蟻喂尾维位位慰谓 蟺慰蠀 魏维胃蔚 维位位慰 蟺伪蟻维 蠁喂位蠈尉蔚谓伪 纬喂伪 伪蠀蟿维 蔚委谓伪喂.
螚 纬蟻伪蠁萎 蟿慰蠀 螒渭维谓蟿慰 蔚委谓伪喂 伪蟺位萎 魏伪喂 蟽蟿蟻蠅渭苇谓畏. 韦慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蠂蠅蟻委味蔚蟿伪喂 蟽蔚 蟽蠂蔚蟿喂魏维 渭喂魏蟻蠈 魏蔚蠁维位伪喂伪 魏伪喂 蔚委谓伪喂 蔚蠀伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽蟿慰 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 谓伪 蠂维谓蔚喂 慰蠉蟿蔚 蟽蟿喂纬渭萎 蟿慰 蔚谓未喂伪蠁苇蟻慰谓 蟿慰蠀. 螔苇尾伪喂伪 畏 尾伪胃蔚喂维 蔚蟺喂蟻蟻慰萎 蟿慰蠀 围蟻喂蟽蟿喂伪谓喂蟽渭慰蠉 蟽蟿慰蠀蟼 魏伪蟿慰委魏慰蠀蟼 蟿畏蟼 螔蟻伪味喂位委伪蟼 - 魏伪喂 蟽蟿慰谓 委未喂慰 蟿慰谓 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪 - 蔚委谓伪喂 魏维蟿喂 蟺伪蟻伪蟺维谓蠅 伪蟺蠈 蔚渭蠁伪谓萎蟼 蔚谓蠋 蠀蟺维蟻蠂慰蠀谓 蟽蟿喂纬渭苇蟼 蟺慰蠀 畏 蟺委蟽蟿畏 蟽蟿慰谓 螛蔚蠈 渭蟺位苇魏蔚蟿伪喂 渭蔚 蟿喂蟼 蟺伪位喂苇蟼 未慰尉伪蟽委蔚蟼 魏伪喂 蟺伪纬伪谓喂蟽蟿喂魏苇蟼 胃蟻畏蟽魏蔚委蔚蟼 蟿畏蟼 蠂蠋蟻伪蟼.
螘谓 蟿苇位蔚喂 慰 尾蟻伪味喂位喂维谓慰蟼 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪蟼 渭伪蟼 未蔚委蠂谓蔚喂 蠈蟿喂 畏 蟺伪喂未喂魏萎 伪胃蠅蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺慰位蠉 未蠉蟽魏慰位慰 谓伪 蠂伪胃蔚委, 伪位位维 伪谓 伪蠀蟿蠈 纬委谓蔚喂 畏 伪谓胃蟻蠅蟺蠈蟿畏蟿伪 苇蠂蔚喂 未喂伪蟺蟻维尉蔚喂 苇谓伪 蟿蔚蟻维蟽蟿喂慰 苇纬魏位畏渭伪...
螘尉伪喂蟻蔚蟿喂魏蠈 位慰喂蟺蠈谓 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽渭伪, 蟿慰 慰蟺慰委慰 伪未喂魏蔚委蟿伪喂 魏伪蟿维蠁蠅蟻伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 蔚位蔚蔚喂谓萎 渭蔚蟿维蠁蟻伪蟽畏 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 魏伪魏萎 蟺慰喂蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿蠅谓 蔚魏未蠈蟽蔚蠅谓 螤螣巍螘螜螒.
5/5 纬喂伪 蟿慰 苇蟻纬慰
0/5 纬喂伪 蟿喂蟼 蔚魏未蠈蟽蔚喂蟼...
螚 伪蟽蟿蠀谓慰渭委伪 胃苇位蔚喂 谓伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 蟽蠀位位维尾蔚喂, 慰 螖喂蔚蠀胃蠀谓蟿萎蟼 蟿慰蠀 伪谓伪渭慰蟻蠁蠅蟿畏蟻委慰蠀 胃苇位蔚喂 谓伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 尾伪蟽伪谓委蟽蔚喂 魏伪喂 慰 螒尾尾维蟼 谓伪 蟿慰蠀蟼 未蔚委尉蔚喂 蠈蟿喂 畏 魏伪位慰蟽蠉谓畏 蟽蟿慰谓 魏蠈蟽渭慰 蠀蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂 魏伪喂 蔚委谓伪喂 蠂蟻苇慰蟼 蟿慰蠀蟼 谓伪 蟿畏谓 尾蟻慰蠀谓....
螣 围蠈蟻蠂蔚 螒渭维谓蟿慰 纬蟻维蠁蔚喂 苇谓伪 尾喂尾位委慰 纬喂伪 蟿畏谓 伪胃苇伪蟿畏 蟺位蔚蠀蟻维 蟿畏蟼 螔蟻伪味喂位委伪蟼. 螘魏蔚委 蟺慰蠀 尾蟻委蟽魏慰谓蟿伪喂 蟺蟻慰伪纬蠅纬慰委, 蟺蠈蟻谓蔚蟼, 蔚魏尾喂伪蟽蟿苇蟼 魏伪喂 未慰位慰蠁蠈谓慰喂. 危蔚 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰谓 魏蠈蟽渭慰 蟿伪 蟺伪喂未喂维 蟿畏蟼 蟽蠀渭渭慰蟻委伪蟼 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 魏畏未蔚渭蠈谓蔚蟼, 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 渭慰委蟻伪 蔚纬魏伪蟿伪位蔚喂渭渭苇谓伪 蟽蟿畏谓 蠁蟿蠋蠂蔚喂伪 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 伪谓苇蠂蔚喂伪 蟺蟻慰蟽蟺伪胃慰蠉谓 谓伪 伪蠁慰渭慰喂蠅胃慰蠉谓 蟽蔚 苇谓伪 蟺蔚蟻喂尾维位位慰谓 蟺慰蠀 魏维胃蔚 维位位慰 蟺伪蟻维 蠁喂位蠈尉蔚谓伪 纬喂伪 伪蠀蟿维 蔚委谓伪喂.
螚 纬蟻伪蠁萎 蟿慰蠀 螒渭维谓蟿慰 蔚委谓伪喂 伪蟺位萎 魏伪喂 蟽蟿蟻蠅渭苇谓畏. 韦慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蠂蠅蟻委味蔚蟿伪喂 蟽蔚 蟽蠂蔚蟿喂魏维 渭喂魏蟻蠈 魏蔚蠁维位伪喂伪 魏伪喂 蔚委谓伪喂 蔚蠀伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽蟿慰 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 谓伪 蠂维谓蔚喂 慰蠉蟿蔚 蟽蟿喂纬渭萎 蟿慰 蔚谓未喂伪蠁苇蟻慰谓 蟿慰蠀. 螔苇尾伪喂伪 畏 尾伪胃蔚喂维 蔚蟺喂蟻蟻慰萎 蟿慰蠀 围蟻喂蟽蟿喂伪谓喂蟽渭慰蠉 蟽蟿慰蠀蟼 魏伪蟿慰委魏慰蠀蟼 蟿畏蟼 螔蟻伪味喂位委伪蟼 - 魏伪喂 蟽蟿慰谓 委未喂慰 蟿慰谓 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪 - 蔚委谓伪喂 魏维蟿喂 蟺伪蟻伪蟺维谓蠅 伪蟺蠈 蔚渭蠁伪谓萎蟼 蔚谓蠋 蠀蟺维蟻蠂慰蠀谓 蟽蟿喂纬渭苇蟼 蟺慰蠀 畏 蟺委蟽蟿畏 蟽蟿慰谓 螛蔚蠈 渭蟺位苇魏蔚蟿伪喂 渭蔚 蟿喂蟼 蟺伪位喂苇蟼 未慰尉伪蟽委蔚蟼 魏伪喂 蟺伪纬伪谓喂蟽蟿喂魏苇蟼 胃蟻畏蟽魏蔚委蔚蟼 蟿畏蟼 蠂蠋蟻伪蟼.
螘谓 蟿苇位蔚喂 慰 尾蟻伪味喂位喂维谓慰蟼 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪蟼 渭伪蟼 未蔚委蠂谓蔚喂 蠈蟿喂 畏 蟺伪喂未喂魏萎 伪胃蠅蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺慰位蠉 未蠉蟽魏慰位慰 谓伪 蠂伪胃蔚委, 伪位位维 伪谓 伪蠀蟿蠈 纬委谓蔚喂 畏 伪谓胃蟻蠅蟺蠈蟿畏蟿伪 苇蠂蔚喂 未喂伪蟺蟻维尉蔚喂 苇谓伪 蟿蔚蟻维蟽蟿喂慰 苇纬魏位畏渭伪...
螘尉伪喂蟻蔚蟿喂魏蠈 位慰喂蟺蠈谓 伪谓维纬谓蠅蟽渭伪, 蟿慰 慰蟺慰委慰 伪未喂魏蔚委蟿伪喂 魏伪蟿维蠁蠅蟻伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏谓 蔚位蔚蔚喂谓萎 渭蔚蟿维蠁蟻伪蟽畏 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 魏伪魏萎 蟺慰喂蠈蟿畏蟿伪 蟿蠅谓 蔚魏未蠈蟽蔚蠅谓 螤螣巍螘螜螒.
5/5 纬喂伪 蟿慰 苇蟻纬慰
0/5 纬喂伪 蟿喂蟼 蔚魏未蠈蟽蔚喂蟼...
July 6, 2015
Nunca um livro t茫o imperfeito foi t茫o perfeito para mim.
August 30, 2019
"A liberdade 茅 como o sol: o bem maior do mundo."
"Capit茫es da Areia", foi escrito em 1937 e no mesmo ano centenas de exemplares seriam apreendidos pela ditadura de Get煤lio Vargas que os queimaria em pra莽a p煤blica sob acusa莽茫o de "propaganda comunista nociva 脿 sociedade".
O papel n茫o resistiu ao fogo mas a for莽a da palavra e da den煤ncia perdura at茅 hoje, fazendo deste livro um dos mais representativos da obra de Jorge Amado.
O contexto social e politico que fez dele um livro proibido 茅 tamb茅m o que o mant茅m como livro de leitura obrigat贸ria. Os tempos de ditadura ficaram para tr谩s (ou n茫o), mas a mis茅ria, a fome, e a luta de classes permanecem e continuam a condenar 脿 rua bandos de meninos que ir茫o levar uma vida marginal, vivendo de roubos e outros delitos. A resposta social 茅 maioritariamente ineficiente e poucos ser茫o capazes de escapar a um destino sombrio.
Passaram-se mais de 80 anos, e t茫o pequenos foram os passos que se deram.
"Capit茫es da Areia", foi escrito em 1937 e no mesmo ano centenas de exemplares seriam apreendidos pela ditadura de Get煤lio Vargas que os queimaria em pra莽a p煤blica sob acusa莽茫o de "propaganda comunista nociva 脿 sociedade".
O papel n茫o resistiu ao fogo mas a for莽a da palavra e da den煤ncia perdura at茅 hoje, fazendo deste livro um dos mais representativos da obra de Jorge Amado.
O contexto social e politico que fez dele um livro proibido 茅 tamb茅m o que o mant茅m como livro de leitura obrigat贸ria. Os tempos de ditadura ficaram para tr谩s (ou n茫o), mas a mis茅ria, a fome, e a luta de classes permanecem e continuam a condenar 脿 rua bandos de meninos que ir茫o levar uma vida marginal, vivendo de roubos e outros delitos. A resposta social 茅 maioritariamente ineficiente e poucos ser茫o capazes de escapar a um destino sombrio.
Passaram-se mais de 80 anos, e t茫o pequenos foram os passos que se deram.
January 30, 2023
It's strange that of the three books on Brazil that I've read recently, all three were predominantly concerned with the state of Bahia, in the rural and relatively unpopulated northeast. This is where Europeans first settled and it remains, in some strange way, the spiritual heart of the country, even while people and development have moved south towards Rio, S茫o Paulo, and Brasilia. 鈥楤ahia is something mysterious and big,鈥� Jorge Amado says in a postface to this novel, 鈥榣ike India, or islands of the South Seas.鈥�
Here, in the city that's now called Salvador, in the 1930s, we are in the company of a gang of street children who have the run of the city's alleyways, beaches, docks and backstreets. The blurb on the back of my edition calls Captains of the Sands 鈥榓 Brazilian Lord of the Flies鈥�, but a more useful comparison would be with something like Oliver Twist, since the method and the detailed child's-eye view of the city are very Dickensian. Our protagonists are pitched somewhere between folk heroes and social problems鈥�
Dressed in rags, dirty, half-starved, aggressive, cursing, and smoking cigarette butts, they were, in truth, the masters of the city, the ones who knew it completely, the ones who loved it completely, its posts.
Colm T贸ib铆n, in his (otherwise somewhat blustery) introduction to the Penguin edition, speaks of 鈥榓 battle going on鈥etween Amado's mission and his art鈥�, which is a good way of understanding the shifting tone of the book. Later in Amado's career, he would be known for much more lush, poetical novels like Dona Flor and her Two Husbands; whereas this is from his earlier social-realist stage when he was still an enthusiastic Party member. But you can see him struggling to reconcile the two impulses.
On the one hand, a boy of the streets is seen as a kind of mythical embodiment of the Bahian soul 鈥� 鈥榯he friend of parties, music, the bodies of halfbreed girls. A drifter. A rowdy. A capoeira fighter, switchblade artist, thief when necessary鈥︹€� 鈥� but on the other hand, these children live lives of deprivation and desperation which Amado is very concerned with communicating.
There are passages in here of incredibly gritty naturalism 鈥� the progress of a smallpox epidemic through the city's poor, details of police brutality, a long sequence describing incarceration in solitary confinement. And unlike in Dickens, these are children with real and damaged sex lives, though they are all between eleven and sixteen years old: one has a long-running relationship with a sex worker, while another, in a scene that I found quite extraordinary for a novel from 1937, coerces a girl he meets at night on the beach into anal sex (so she can remain a virgin).
This encounter, which is really a rape, is described without any sentimentality yet with complete sympathy for everyone involved. Later in the novel, when a girl joins the gang, we see the same boy discover, as she helps to fix his clothing, what he had previously never understood: that there can be a distinction between desire and simple affection.
Dora's hand touches him again. The sensation is different now. It's no longer a wave of desire. It's that feeling of good affection and security that his mother's hands gave him. [鈥 No desire. Just happiness.
Though the gang steal and are sometimes violent, in the end 鈥榯hey weren't to blame. Life was to blame鈥�, as one sympathetic local priest concludes. It could be an entirely bleak picture, but it's not. Amado's soulful, poetic treatment makes their lives into something transcendent and beautiful, even while refusing to look away from the grim realities.
December 1, 2021
Passados 20 anos decidi pegar neste livrinho鈥� e s贸 lamento ter demorado tanto tempo a l锚-lo鈥� porqu锚?!!
Apesar de ter conhecimento que 茅 um livro amado por quase toda a gente que o leu (ali谩s n茫o conhe莽o ningu茅m que n茫o tenha gostado de 鈥淐apit茫es da areia鈥�), nunca me tinha atra铆do a sua leitura, e ele l谩鈥� paradinho, vinte anos na minha estante, vinte anos 脿 minha espera鈥�
鈥淐apit茫es da areia鈥� vai ficar, indiscutivelmente, no grupo dos livros da minha vida. Sabem, aqueles livros que nos marcam o cora莽茫o e a alma de uma forma quase inexplic谩vel? Este 茅 um deles!
Jorge Amado, atrav茅s das sua palavras possibilitou, de uma forma brilhante e 铆mpar, que eu viajasse at茅 脿quele tempo, 脿quele lugar e 脿quelas crian莽as. Com elas vivi as suas alegrias, tristezas, perdas, esperan莽as, dores e revoltas. Apesar de serem comportamentos reprov谩veis e mesmo muito perturbantes para quem assiste a tais barbarices, senti empatia por este grupo de crian莽as, que nunca tiveram algu茅m que os educasse, que os amasse e que os valorizasse.
Eram crian莽as que tinham que ser Homens, eram obrigados a isso, vivendo numa sociedade que os abominava 鈥溾€ram como homens鈥� Toda a diferen莽a estava no tamanho. No mais eram iguais: amavam e derrubavam negras no areal desde cedo, furtavam para viver como os ladr玫es da cidade. Quando eram presos apanhavam surras como homens鈥� o que faz a crian莽a 茅 o ambiente de casa, pai, m茫e鈥� Nunca eles tiveram pai e m茫e na vida da rua. E tiveram sempre que cuidar de si mesmos, foram sempre os respons谩veis por si.鈥濃€�
A narrativa deste livro fez com que eu vivesse intensamente e de uma forma muito preocupada a vida daquelas crian莽as por isso, se eu fosse uma personagem desta magnifica obra, seria o Padre Jos茅 Pedro, um amigo, algu茅m que amou de uma forma despretensiosa estes petizes. Tal como o padre, tamb茅m eu chorei quando me despedi de cada um destes meninos.
Atendendo aos princ铆pios ideol贸gicos patentes nesta obra, a mensagem fulcral que o autor quis passar, atrav茅s dos seus capit茫es, parece-me ser a import芒ncia da liberdade na vida de cada indiv铆duo e a necessidade de lutar para que ela seja alcan莽ada.
O livro foi publicado em 1937 e, na altura, queimado em pra莽a p煤blica鈥� incomodava muita gente鈥� E na atualidade, ser谩 que este livro e/ou livros semelhantes ainda incomodam algumas sociedades/ estratos sociais/grupos/ individualidades? Havia tanto a discutir 鈥�
Ah 茅 verdade! Fiquei apaixonada pela escrita simples, mas encantadora e envolvente de Jorge Amado. Quero mais! Muito mais!
Apesar de ter conhecimento que 茅 um livro amado por quase toda a gente que o leu (ali谩s n茫o conhe莽o ningu茅m que n茫o tenha gostado de 鈥淐apit茫es da areia鈥�), nunca me tinha atra铆do a sua leitura, e ele l谩鈥� paradinho, vinte anos na minha estante, vinte anos 脿 minha espera鈥�
鈥淐apit茫es da areia鈥� vai ficar, indiscutivelmente, no grupo dos livros da minha vida. Sabem, aqueles livros que nos marcam o cora莽茫o e a alma de uma forma quase inexplic谩vel? Este 茅 um deles!
Jorge Amado, atrav茅s das sua palavras possibilitou, de uma forma brilhante e 铆mpar, que eu viajasse at茅 脿quele tempo, 脿quele lugar e 脿quelas crian莽as. Com elas vivi as suas alegrias, tristezas, perdas, esperan莽as, dores e revoltas. Apesar de serem comportamentos reprov谩veis e mesmo muito perturbantes para quem assiste a tais barbarices, senti empatia por este grupo de crian莽as, que nunca tiveram algu茅m que os educasse, que os amasse e que os valorizasse.
Eram crian莽as que tinham que ser Homens, eram obrigados a isso, vivendo numa sociedade que os abominava 鈥溾€ram como homens鈥� Toda a diferen莽a estava no tamanho. No mais eram iguais: amavam e derrubavam negras no areal desde cedo, furtavam para viver como os ladr玫es da cidade. Quando eram presos apanhavam surras como homens鈥� o que faz a crian莽a 茅 o ambiente de casa, pai, m茫e鈥� Nunca eles tiveram pai e m茫e na vida da rua. E tiveram sempre que cuidar de si mesmos, foram sempre os respons谩veis por si.鈥濃€�
A narrativa deste livro fez com que eu vivesse intensamente e de uma forma muito preocupada a vida daquelas crian莽as por isso, se eu fosse uma personagem desta magnifica obra, seria o Padre Jos茅 Pedro, um amigo, algu茅m que amou de uma forma despretensiosa estes petizes. Tal como o padre, tamb茅m eu chorei quando me despedi de cada um destes meninos.
Atendendo aos princ铆pios ideol贸gicos patentes nesta obra, a mensagem fulcral que o autor quis passar, atrav茅s dos seus capit茫es, parece-me ser a import芒ncia da liberdade na vida de cada indiv铆duo e a necessidade de lutar para que ela seja alcan莽ada.
O livro foi publicado em 1937 e, na altura, queimado em pra莽a p煤blica鈥� incomodava muita gente鈥� E na atualidade, ser谩 que este livro e/ou livros semelhantes ainda incomodam algumas sociedades/ estratos sociais/grupos/ individualidades? Havia tanto a discutir 鈥�
Ah 茅 verdade! Fiquei apaixonada pela escrita simples, mas encantadora e envolvente de Jorge Amado. Quero mais! Muito mais!
November 29, 2011
Jorge Amado wanted to speak against the poverty and misery in Brazil, about all that made those young boys homeless thieves. But he romanticizes these boys in everything they do, even when they rape young black women for sport. In Amado鈥檚 books, men always seem to think in poor black women like objects, beings, there just for their pleasure, to cook and to have sex.
In a deeply disturbing scene, the hero [sic] Pedro Bala annaly rapes a fifteen years old black girl after she claims to be a virgin. He menaces her, and she realizes that if she won鈥檛 consent [sic] to that, he will take her virginity, and then he tries to rape her anyway because he is still excited. At the end, he lets her go, making her promise that she will meet him in the following day to be annaly raped once again. If she doesn鈥檛 show up, he will take revenge on her. Amado writes that she cried of fear, but also that she felt desire, and he actually uses the words 鈥淪he consented鈥�. He also writes that she behaved as a mad woman, crying and screaming, with terror in her eyes. And that all she felt was pain and fear, and desire to run away. Pedro Bala hates her because she keeps crying, thinking in the end that she was just a kid and regretting ever meeting her, even though he later rapes other girls. He states that he did nothing to her, because she was still virgin. And many people wondered if Amado wrote about her desire because of the image that black girls are always sexually available.
They also try to gang rape a little girl, giving up not because one of them points out repeatedly that she is a child, but because Pedro Bala, who initially stated that it was their right to rape her, gets fascinated by her blond hair. They then stop seeing her as a sexual being, thinking in her as a sweet mother. There is an old prejudice, that women can be either whores or wives. In 19th century Brazil, there was a racist saying: 鈥淎 black woman in the kitchen, a mulata in the bed and a white girl in the altar鈥�. Amado鈥檚 characters sometimes seem to live in these times.
Amado may write in a very poetical manner, but that doesn鈥檛 change the facts: if we lived in that city, everyone would be terrified by those boys. It鈥檚 an awful cycle: the police brutality makes the boys crueler; their cruelty makes people support police brutality. As terrible as that sounds, when crime rates are too high, people feel safer if the police is killing teenage rapists and murderers, since Brazilian laws state that teenagers can鈥檛 be in prison for long, regardless of the crime they committed. Of course they suffered a lot, and I believe that misery justifies petty thefts, but I have always felt that to say that this is a justification for their actions or its reasons is an offense to all those who suffered but never committed rape and murder.
And I believe that, to some extent, to believe that black women are always sensual, always willing to have sex, is a form of racism.
In a deeply disturbing scene, the hero [sic] Pedro Bala annaly rapes a fifteen years old black girl after she claims to be a virgin. He menaces her, and she realizes that if she won鈥檛 consent [sic] to that, he will take her virginity, and then he tries to rape her anyway because he is still excited. At the end, he lets her go, making her promise that she will meet him in the following day to be annaly raped once again. If she doesn鈥檛 show up, he will take revenge on her. Amado writes that she cried of fear, but also that she felt desire, and he actually uses the words 鈥淪he consented鈥�. He also writes that she behaved as a mad woman, crying and screaming, with terror in her eyes. And that all she felt was pain and fear, and desire to run away. Pedro Bala hates her because she keeps crying, thinking in the end that she was just a kid and regretting ever meeting her, even though he later rapes other girls. He states that he did nothing to her, because she was still virgin. And many people wondered if Amado wrote about her desire because of the image that black girls are always sexually available.
They also try to gang rape a little girl, giving up not because one of them points out repeatedly that she is a child, but because Pedro Bala, who initially stated that it was their right to rape her, gets fascinated by her blond hair. They then stop seeing her as a sexual being, thinking in her as a sweet mother. There is an old prejudice, that women can be either whores or wives. In 19th century Brazil, there was a racist saying: 鈥淎 black woman in the kitchen, a mulata in the bed and a white girl in the altar鈥�. Amado鈥檚 characters sometimes seem to live in these times.
Amado may write in a very poetical manner, but that doesn鈥檛 change the facts: if we lived in that city, everyone would be terrified by those boys. It鈥檚 an awful cycle: the police brutality makes the boys crueler; their cruelty makes people support police brutality. As terrible as that sounds, when crime rates are too high, people feel safer if the police is killing teenage rapists and murderers, since Brazilian laws state that teenagers can鈥檛 be in prison for long, regardless of the crime they committed. Of course they suffered a lot, and I believe that misery justifies petty thefts, but I have always felt that to say that this is a justification for their actions or its reasons is an offense to all those who suffered but never committed rape and murder.
And I believe that, to some extent, to believe that black women are always sensual, always willing to have sex, is a form of racism.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 26, 2012
O primeiro livro que li.
O come莽o de tudo com uma grande obra.
N茫o me admira que o grande Jorge Amado tenha sido perseguido devido 脿 publica莽茫o deste livro. Retratar uma sociedade desta forma, quando na altura ela assim tal e qual era, a muita gente pode despertar a consci锚ncia e a outros despertar o perigo de vida.
Crian莽as de rua, organizadas, astutas e unidas estas s茫o. Ao lermos este belo livro sabemos que a luta contra a sociedade, contra o sistema institu铆do e sobretudo contra o fado 茅 dura e uma derrota anunciada. Tal como acontece com estas crian莽as, lentamente o leitor (pelo menos eu, e espero que muitos outros) vai sentindo um 贸dio a crescer dentro de si por saber que todos se desresponsabilizam por estas crian莽as. Em geral, existe um incompreens茫o por parte da sociedade em rela莽茫o 脿 situa莽茫o criminosa destas crian莽as, porque para se compreender esta situa莽茫o 茅 primeiro preciso que se tenha em conta que estas crian莽as s茫o desapoiadas pelas fam铆lias e pelas inst芒ncias de protec莽茫o social. Contando tamb茅m que, algumas, s茫o t茫o crian莽as que n茫o sabem sequer o significado dos seus sentimentos. O que lhes resta compreender, de imediato, 茅 a SOBREVIV脢NCIA e ADAPTA脟脙O AO MEIO.
Contudo, ao longo da leitura, estas crian莽as fazem-nos acreditar que 茅 poss铆vel contornar o que sempre foi incontorn谩vel para os destinados a fracassar e a sofrer. Jorge Amado demonstra-nos que estas crian莽as nascem muito condicionadas pelo meio, mas que n茫o s茫o pr茅-destinadas 脿 mis茅ria. T锚m uma palavra a dizer acerca de si mesmas, das suas vidas e seus destinos. Agora, 茅 importante que a sociedade ou莽a essa palavra, como aconteceu com o Professor, Pirulito, Jo茫o Grande e inclusive Pedro Bala, que apesar de fugitivo lutava por algo muito importante: A LIBERDADE.
Este livro 茅 um retrato social do Brasil que quanto tem de belo tem de triste e penoso tamb茅m. Por isso este 茅 um livro a ser lido por todos, sobretudo por aqueles que n茫o viram como o mundo e a vida, ainda nos dias de hoje, podem ser duros para alguns seres que por alguma raz茫o (in)consciente nasceram. 脡 essencialmente um livro pol铆tico, um grito de justi莽a, igualdade e liberdade, da铆 a persegui莽茫o ao Amado.
O 煤nico aspecto que incomoda a pr贸pria constitui莽茫o do livro, penso que s茫o alguns erros na forma como Jorge Amado o escreveu. Alguns excertos, principalmente introdu莽玫es e descri莽玫es de personagens, parecem-me um pouco descontextualizados. Apesar de pequenos, por vezes quebram a narrativa. Exemplo: explana莽茫o dos primeiros contactos do Padre Jos茅 Pedro com os Capit茫es da Areia quando 茅 apresentado pelo Boa-Vida.
Apesar deste 煤ltimo apontamento, sinto-me lisonjeado por ler coisas desta natureza.
O come莽o de tudo com uma grande obra.
N茫o me admira que o grande Jorge Amado tenha sido perseguido devido 脿 publica莽茫o deste livro. Retratar uma sociedade desta forma, quando na altura ela assim tal e qual era, a muita gente pode despertar a consci锚ncia e a outros despertar o perigo de vida.
Crian莽as de rua, organizadas, astutas e unidas estas s茫o. Ao lermos este belo livro sabemos que a luta contra a sociedade, contra o sistema institu铆do e sobretudo contra o fado 茅 dura e uma derrota anunciada. Tal como acontece com estas crian莽as, lentamente o leitor (pelo menos eu, e espero que muitos outros) vai sentindo um 贸dio a crescer dentro de si por saber que todos se desresponsabilizam por estas crian莽as. Em geral, existe um incompreens茫o por parte da sociedade em rela莽茫o 脿 situa莽茫o criminosa destas crian莽as, porque para se compreender esta situa莽茫o 茅 primeiro preciso que se tenha em conta que estas crian莽as s茫o desapoiadas pelas fam铆lias e pelas inst芒ncias de protec莽茫o social. Contando tamb茅m que, algumas, s茫o t茫o crian莽as que n茫o sabem sequer o significado dos seus sentimentos. O que lhes resta compreender, de imediato, 茅 a SOBREVIV脢NCIA e ADAPTA脟脙O AO MEIO.
Contudo, ao longo da leitura, estas crian莽as fazem-nos acreditar que 茅 poss铆vel contornar o que sempre foi incontorn谩vel para os destinados a fracassar e a sofrer. Jorge Amado demonstra-nos que estas crian莽as nascem muito condicionadas pelo meio, mas que n茫o s茫o pr茅-destinadas 脿 mis茅ria. T锚m uma palavra a dizer acerca de si mesmas, das suas vidas e seus destinos. Agora, 茅 importante que a sociedade ou莽a essa palavra, como aconteceu com o Professor, Pirulito, Jo茫o Grande e inclusive Pedro Bala, que apesar de fugitivo lutava por algo muito importante: A LIBERDADE.
Este livro 茅 um retrato social do Brasil que quanto tem de belo tem de triste e penoso tamb茅m. Por isso este 茅 um livro a ser lido por todos, sobretudo por aqueles que n茫o viram como o mundo e a vida, ainda nos dias de hoje, podem ser duros para alguns seres que por alguma raz茫o (in)consciente nasceram. 脡 essencialmente um livro pol铆tico, um grito de justi莽a, igualdade e liberdade, da铆 a persegui莽茫o ao Amado.
O 煤nico aspecto que incomoda a pr贸pria constitui莽茫o do livro, penso que s茫o alguns erros na forma como Jorge Amado o escreveu. Alguns excertos, principalmente introdu莽玫es e descri莽玫es de personagens, parecem-me um pouco descontextualizados. Apesar de pequenos, por vezes quebram a narrativa. Exemplo: explana莽茫o dos primeiros contactos do Padre Jos茅 Pedro com os Capit茫es da Areia quando 茅 apresentado pelo Boa-Vida.
Apesar deste 煤ltimo apontamento, sinto-me lisonjeado por ler coisas desta natureza.
September 9, 2021
Maybe 3.5. There were a lot of things I loved about this - the writing was great, the set up really intriguing, and some moments wonderfully powerful. I didn't love the way sexual violence, and violence in general, was handled in this book, though, and there were some sections that sat uneasily with me.
July 11, 2023
Dressed in rags, dirty, half-starved, aggressive, cursing and smoking cigarette butts, they were, in truth, the masters of the city, the ones who knew it completely, the ones who loved it completely, its poets.
Like its author, I feel unapologetic about loving this story to bits, despite being aware of its shortcomings and its problematic depiction of rape. The work of a young author in love with his home city and with the colourful life of its inhabitants, the novel is part of a militant six book series written between the ages of 18 to 24 for the dual purpose of capturing the soul of Salvador de Bahia and inspiring revolutionary fervour in the readership.
Written in 1938, in the aftermath of the Great Depression and the rise in communist sympathies in the 鈥榣ower鈥� classes, the novel was banned and burned in the same city so lovingly portrayed here yet, over time, it has become a classic despite its very real issues.
The author felt the need to defend his youthful enthusiasm in a postscript that I also find is needed here before I dive into the actual story.
No one knows better than I, who wrote them, what the weaknesses and defects of my novels are. But, by the same token, no one can measure the sacrifice they cost me, the honesty that went into their making, the disinterest and pure love that made the novelist return to his people.
I know full well that this series of novels has nothing of genius or the miraculous about it. The work of a young man, it could not help but be full of defects. I do know, however, that there exists in it a feeling that has almost always been forgotten in Brazilian works of art: an absolute solidarity with and a great love for the humanity that lives in these books.
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Today he is fifteen. For ten of these years he has wandered about the streets of Bahia. He never knew anything about his mother, his father died of a bullet wound. He was left alone and he spent years learning about his city. Today he knows all its streets and all its alleys. There isn鈥檛 a shop, store, establishment that he doesn鈥檛 know.
Pedro Bala is the leader of a gang of feral children who hunt the streets of the city by day, break into homes by night and hide from police and social services in an abandoned warehouse by the beach. The newspapers have named them the Captains of the Sands and they are the most notorious and chased of street gang in Bahia.
To Jorge Amado, they are foremost and most importantly lost children in need of love and shelter, boys who must survive by their wits in a hostile adult world, rejected by polite society, vilified by the press and turned into outlaws by police brutality and by poverty.
They have nowhere and nobody to turn to for help but each other, a band of brothers (comrades) who live by their own code of street honour and whose daily strife is compensated by the greatest gift the city has to offer: the adventure of freedom in the streets of the most mysterious and beautiful city in the world, in the streets of Bahia de Todos os Santos, the bay of all saints. as Father Jose Pedro explains why a state run orphanage would not be right for the captains.
In the moonlight, in an old abandoned warehouse, the children are sleeping.
The author doesn鈥檛 try to hide his love for his little hooligans, making real efforts here to portray their life of crime and the squalor of their abode in a sympathetic way. The modern reader will have a harder time swallowing this, in particular a repulsive rape scene by the leader of the Captains, Pedro Bala. And this is not the only incident of abuse of women in the book. When he managed to get a little black girl on the sand, it was with the help of others, by force.
Similarly evident are Jorge Amado鈥檚 communist sympathies, something probably understandable in the aftermath of the Great Depression [the series of six Bahian books were written in the 1930s]. John Steinbeck, who I also re-read recently, had a similar attitude in his social novels, although Amado is much more trenchant in his call to revolution.
In his later novels, Amado abandoned the militant tone, if not the sensibility towards the oppressed. And his love for Bahia and for its laid-back, colourful lifestyle only increased, as I noticed in my favourite story from him: Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands.
I actually learned a new word that is very fitting for both the early and the late novels: malandragem : is a Portuguese term for a lifestyle of idleness, fast living and petty crime 鈥� traditionally celebrated in samba lyrics, especially those of Noel Rosa and Bezerra da Silva. [wiki]
Amado tries, and in my opinion succeeds, in making folk heroes, cultural icons from his captains of the sands. One of them, Good-Life or Boa-Vida, is like a poster boy for this malandragem life, not interested in money or a job, only in parties, drinking, making music and love, walking leisurely on the city streets.
Another national icon, revered in the book by Dry-Gulch, the angriest of these dangerous urchins, is Lampiao, a cruel bandit in the eyes of landowners and government officials, but a sort of Robin Hood to the people of the back country.
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Literary, the style is a bit more awkward than in Dona Flor, but it is clear this is a labour of love, and signs of what Amado will eventually achieve as a wordsmith are here allright.
... he took what he needed from Charles Dickens and used also the form of the folktale, the picaresque novel, and the documentary novel.
There is no actual plot, or character development, just a series of vignettes from life on the streets with eventually a sort of plot progression following the way the children grow up to either be destroyed by the system or be absorbed into the life of the city.
Pedro Bala the 鈥楤ullet鈥� is the gang鈥檚 leader and the focus of the novel, but many short stories follow his lieutenants: the Professor, Legless, Big Joao, Lollipop, Good-Life, Cat, Dry Gulch and others. There are few adults who penetrate the secretive gang of criminal children, yet they admit in their secret hideaway people like God鈥檚 Love [the sailor who is teaching them capoeira], Don 鈥楢ninha [the candomble priestess], Father Jose Pedro [the poor priest who tries to help the captains].
There are no girls in the group, at least in the beginning, and the captains are quite repulsive in their early manhood, as I mentioned earlier. The author seems aware of this issue and will add a new member to the gang later in the novel, an orphaned girl who loses her parents in a smallpox epidemic.
From a target of gang-rape, this young girl manages to become their mother-sister-wife-saint symbol, a full rights partner who joins the boys on their raids in the city and offers spiritual comfort at night. Her story arc ends rather melodramatically, in a Dickensian pastiche, but she did make an impression on me.
I could now tell about the fate of the captains later in life, but I believe this is better left to each reader to arrive at in due time, as they follow the children through the streets of the city. I would only mention that of Pedro Bala, the leader, as indicative of the social awakening role the young author hoped to induce in his readers.
The revolution calls Pedro Bala the way God called Lollipop at night in the warehouse. It鈥檚 a powerful voice inside him, as powerful as the voice of the sea, as the voice of the wind, as powerful as a voice without comparison. With the voice of a black man on a sloop singing the samba that Good-Life had composed.
For myself, I want to preserve an earlier scene that shows not the criminals the rest of the world sees in the captains, but the children yearning for love that is their inner soul:
He goes along like a believer to mass, a lover to the breast of his beloved, a suicide to death. He goes pale and limping. He mounts a blue horse that has stars painted on its wooden rump. His lips are tight, his ears don鈥檛 hear the music of the Pianola. He only sees the spinning lights, and he comes to the realization that he is on a carousel, spinning on a horse like all those children who have fathers and mothers, a home and someone to kiss them and love them. He thinks he is one of them and he closes his eyes to hold the certainty better.
Like its author, I feel unapologetic about loving this story to bits, despite being aware of its shortcomings and its problematic depiction of rape. The work of a young author in love with his home city and with the colourful life of its inhabitants, the novel is part of a militant six book series written between the ages of 18 to 24 for the dual purpose of capturing the soul of Salvador de Bahia and inspiring revolutionary fervour in the readership.
Written in 1938, in the aftermath of the Great Depression and the rise in communist sympathies in the 鈥榣ower鈥� classes, the novel was banned and burned in the same city so lovingly portrayed here yet, over time, it has become a classic despite its very real issues.
The author felt the need to defend his youthful enthusiasm in a postscript that I also find is needed here before I dive into the actual story.
No one knows better than I, who wrote them, what the weaknesses and defects of my novels are. But, by the same token, no one can measure the sacrifice they cost me, the honesty that went into their making, the disinterest and pure love that made the novelist return to his people.
I know full well that this series of novels has nothing of genius or the miraculous about it. The work of a young man, it could not help but be full of defects. I do know, however, that there exists in it a feeling that has almost always been forgotten in Brazilian works of art: an absolute solidarity with and a great love for the humanity that lives in these books.
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Today he is fifteen. For ten of these years he has wandered about the streets of Bahia. He never knew anything about his mother, his father died of a bullet wound. He was left alone and he spent years learning about his city. Today he knows all its streets and all its alleys. There isn鈥檛 a shop, store, establishment that he doesn鈥檛 know.
Pedro Bala is the leader of a gang of feral children who hunt the streets of the city by day, break into homes by night and hide from police and social services in an abandoned warehouse by the beach. The newspapers have named them the Captains of the Sands and they are the most notorious and chased of street gang in Bahia.
To Jorge Amado, they are foremost and most importantly lost children in need of love and shelter, boys who must survive by their wits in a hostile adult world, rejected by polite society, vilified by the press and turned into outlaws by police brutality and by poverty.
They have nowhere and nobody to turn to for help but each other, a band of brothers (comrades) who live by their own code of street honour and whose daily strife is compensated by the greatest gift the city has to offer: the adventure of freedom in the streets of the most mysterious and beautiful city in the world, in the streets of Bahia de Todos os Santos, the bay of all saints. as Father Jose Pedro explains why a state run orphanage would not be right for the captains.
In the moonlight, in an old abandoned warehouse, the children are sleeping.
The author doesn鈥檛 try to hide his love for his little hooligans, making real efforts here to portray their life of crime and the squalor of their abode in a sympathetic way. The modern reader will have a harder time swallowing this, in particular a repulsive rape scene by the leader of the Captains, Pedro Bala. And this is not the only incident of abuse of women in the book. When he managed to get a little black girl on the sand, it was with the help of others, by force.
Similarly evident are Jorge Amado鈥檚 communist sympathies, something probably understandable in the aftermath of the Great Depression [the series of six Bahian books were written in the 1930s]. John Steinbeck, who I also re-read recently, had a similar attitude in his social novels, although Amado is much more trenchant in his call to revolution.
In his later novels, Amado abandoned the militant tone, if not the sensibility towards the oppressed. And his love for Bahia and for its laid-back, colourful lifestyle only increased, as I noticed in my favourite story from him: Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands.
I actually learned a new word that is very fitting for both the early and the late novels: malandragem : is a Portuguese term for a lifestyle of idleness, fast living and petty crime 鈥� traditionally celebrated in samba lyrics, especially those of Noel Rosa and Bezerra da Silva. [wiki]
Amado tries, and in my opinion succeeds, in making folk heroes, cultural icons from his captains of the sands. One of them, Good-Life or Boa-Vida, is like a poster boy for this malandragem life, not interested in money or a job, only in parties, drinking, making music and love, walking leisurely on the city streets.
Another national icon, revered in the book by Dry-Gulch, the angriest of these dangerous urchins, is Lampiao, a cruel bandit in the eyes of landowners and government officials, but a sort of Robin Hood to the people of the back country.
>>><<<>>><<<
Literary, the style is a bit more awkward than in Dona Flor, but it is clear this is a labour of love, and signs of what Amado will eventually achieve as a wordsmith are here allright.
... he took what he needed from Charles Dickens and used also the form of the folktale, the picaresque novel, and the documentary novel.
There is no actual plot, or character development, just a series of vignettes from life on the streets with eventually a sort of plot progression following the way the children grow up to either be destroyed by the system or be absorbed into the life of the city.
Pedro Bala the 鈥楤ullet鈥� is the gang鈥檚 leader and the focus of the novel, but many short stories follow his lieutenants: the Professor, Legless, Big Joao, Lollipop, Good-Life, Cat, Dry Gulch and others. There are few adults who penetrate the secretive gang of criminal children, yet they admit in their secret hideaway people like God鈥檚 Love [the sailor who is teaching them capoeira], Don 鈥楢ninha [the candomble priestess], Father Jose Pedro [the poor priest who tries to help the captains].
There are no girls in the group, at least in the beginning, and the captains are quite repulsive in their early manhood, as I mentioned earlier. The author seems aware of this issue and will add a new member to the gang later in the novel, an orphaned girl who loses her parents in a smallpox epidemic.
From a target of gang-rape, this young girl manages to become their mother-sister-wife-saint symbol, a full rights partner who joins the boys on their raids in the city and offers spiritual comfort at night. Her story arc ends rather melodramatically, in a Dickensian pastiche, but she did make an impression on me.
I could now tell about the fate of the captains later in life, but I believe this is better left to each reader to arrive at in due time, as they follow the children through the streets of the city. I would only mention that of Pedro Bala, the leader, as indicative of the social awakening role the young author hoped to induce in his readers.
The revolution calls Pedro Bala the way God called Lollipop at night in the warehouse. It鈥檚 a powerful voice inside him, as powerful as the voice of the sea, as the voice of the wind, as powerful as a voice without comparison. With the voice of a black man on a sloop singing the samba that Good-Life had composed.
For myself, I want to preserve an earlier scene that shows not the criminals the rest of the world sees in the captains, but the children yearning for love that is their inner soul:
He goes along like a believer to mass, a lover to the breast of his beloved, a suicide to death. He goes pale and limping. He mounts a blue horse that has stars painted on its wooden rump. His lips are tight, his ears don鈥檛 hear the music of the Pianola. He only sees the spinning lights, and he comes to the realization that he is on a carousel, spinning on a horse like all those children who have fathers and mothers, a home and someone to kiss them and love them. He thinks he is one of them and he closes his eyes to hold the certainty better.
October 23, 2016
Uma hist贸ria forte e triste. Por茅m, perde-se um bocado o ritmo da leitura devido 脿 escrita do Jorge Amado, a que estamos pouco habituados em Portugal...
O autor faz uma coisa que raramente se v锚: n茫o apressa o final!
O autor faz uma coisa que raramente se v锚: n茫o apressa o final!
September 27, 2020
Jorge Amado nasceu a 10 de Agosto de 1912 em Itabuna, no sul do estado da Bahia. Estudou Direito, mas nunca exerceu advocacia. Estreou-se aos 18 anos com a obra , e em 1937 viu toda a primeira edi莽茫o de Capit茫es da Areia ser queimada em pra莽a p煤blica, o que o levou, em 1941, ao ex铆lio na Argentina e no Uruguai.
Em 1945 foi eleito Deputado Federal, mas voltou ao ex铆lio em 1947, desta vez em Fran莽a e Checoslov谩quia, quando o Partido Comunista foi ilegalizado. Regressou ao Brasil em 1952, em 1961 foi eleito para a Academia Brasileira de Letras. Foi membro correspondente da Academia de Ci锚ncias de Lisboa.
Foi agraciado com in煤meros pr茅mios internacionais e recebeu diversos t铆tulos, entre os quais:
Vencedor do Pr茅mio 尝耻铆蝉 de Cam玫es, em 1995
Grande Oficial da Ordem de Santiago da Espada, em 1990
Comendador da Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique, em 1986
Jorge Amado faleceu na Bahia em 2001.
Se j谩 tinha gostado deste livro na primeira vez que o li, agora ainda gostei mais. Tornou-se um favorito.
Aquilo que me entristece 茅 olhar para o Brasil e ver que mais de 80 anos depois esta continua a ser a realidade de milhares de pessoas.
Os molecotes atrevidos, o olhar vivo, o gesto r谩pido, a g铆ria de malandro, os rostos chapados de fome, vos pedir茫o esmola. Praticam tamb茅m pequenos furtos.
H谩 oito anos escrevi um romance sobre eles, os 鈥淐apit茫es da Areia鈥�.
Os que conheci naquela 茅poca s茫o hoje homens feitos, malandros do cais, com cacha莽a e viol茫o, oper谩rios de f谩brica, ladr玫es fichados na pol铆cia, mas os 鈥淐apit茫es da Areia鈥� continuam a existir, enchendo as ruas, dormindo ao l茅u. N茫o s茫o um bando surgido ao acaso, coisa passageira na vida da cidade. 脡 um fen么meno permanente, nascido da fome que se abate sobre as classes pobres. Aumenta diariamente o n煤mero de crian莽as abandonadas. Os jornais noticiam constantes malfeitos desses meninos que t锚m como 煤nico corretivo as surras na pol铆cia, os maus tratos sucessivos. Parecem pequenos ratos agressivos, sem medo de coisa alguma, de choro f谩cil e falso, de intelig锚ncia ativ铆ssima, soltos de l铆ngua, conhecendo todas as mis茅rias do mundo numa 茅poca em que as crian莽as ricas ainda criam cachos e pensam que os filhos v锚m de Paris no bico de uma cegonha. Triste espet谩culo das ruas da Bahia, os 鈥淐apit茫es da Areia鈥�. Nada existe que eu ame com t茫o profundo amor quanto estes pequenos vagabundos, ladr玫es de onze anos, assaltantes infantis, que os pais tiveram de abandonar por n茫o ter como aliment谩-los. Vivem pelo areal do cais, por sob as pontes, nas portas dos casar玫es, pedem esmolas, fazem recados, agora conduzem americanos ao mangue. S茫o v铆timas, um problema que a caridade dos bons de cora莽茫o n茫o resolve. Que adiantam os orfanatos para quinze ou vinte? Que adiantam as col么nias agr铆colas para meia d煤zia? Os 鈥淐apit茫es da Areia鈥� continuam a existir. Crescem e v茫o embora mas j谩 muitos outros tomaram os lugares vagos. S贸 matando a fome dos pais pode-se arrancar 脿 sua desgra莽ada vida essas crian莽as sem inf芒ncia, sem brinquedos, sem carinhos maternais, sem escola, sem lar e sem comida. Os 鈥淐apit茫es da Areia鈥�, esfomeados e intr茅pidos!
Bahia de todos os Santos, Jorge Amado
Em 1945 foi eleito Deputado Federal, mas voltou ao ex铆lio em 1947, desta vez em Fran莽a e Checoslov谩quia, quando o Partido Comunista foi ilegalizado. Regressou ao Brasil em 1952, em 1961 foi eleito para a Academia Brasileira de Letras. Foi membro correspondente da Academia de Ci锚ncias de Lisboa.
Foi agraciado com in煤meros pr茅mios internacionais e recebeu diversos t铆tulos, entre os quais:
Vencedor do Pr茅mio 尝耻铆蝉 de Cam玫es, em 1995
Grande Oficial da Ordem de Santiago da Espada, em 1990
Comendador da Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique, em 1986
Jorge Amado faleceu na Bahia em 2001.
Se j谩 tinha gostado deste livro na primeira vez que o li, agora ainda gostei mais. Tornou-se um favorito.
Aquilo que me entristece 茅 olhar para o Brasil e ver que mais de 80 anos depois esta continua a ser a realidade de milhares de pessoas.
Os molecotes atrevidos, o olhar vivo, o gesto r谩pido, a g铆ria de malandro, os rostos chapados de fome, vos pedir茫o esmola. Praticam tamb茅m pequenos furtos.
H谩 oito anos escrevi um romance sobre eles, os 鈥淐apit茫es da Areia鈥�.
Os que conheci naquela 茅poca s茫o hoje homens feitos, malandros do cais, com cacha莽a e viol茫o, oper谩rios de f谩brica, ladr玫es fichados na pol铆cia, mas os 鈥淐apit茫es da Areia鈥� continuam a existir, enchendo as ruas, dormindo ao l茅u. N茫o s茫o um bando surgido ao acaso, coisa passageira na vida da cidade. 脡 um fen么meno permanente, nascido da fome que se abate sobre as classes pobres. Aumenta diariamente o n煤mero de crian莽as abandonadas. Os jornais noticiam constantes malfeitos desses meninos que t锚m como 煤nico corretivo as surras na pol铆cia, os maus tratos sucessivos. Parecem pequenos ratos agressivos, sem medo de coisa alguma, de choro f谩cil e falso, de intelig锚ncia ativ铆ssima, soltos de l铆ngua, conhecendo todas as mis茅rias do mundo numa 茅poca em que as crian莽as ricas ainda criam cachos e pensam que os filhos v锚m de Paris no bico de uma cegonha. Triste espet谩culo das ruas da Bahia, os 鈥淐apit茫es da Areia鈥�. Nada existe que eu ame com t茫o profundo amor quanto estes pequenos vagabundos, ladr玫es de onze anos, assaltantes infantis, que os pais tiveram de abandonar por n茫o ter como aliment谩-los. Vivem pelo areal do cais, por sob as pontes, nas portas dos casar玫es, pedem esmolas, fazem recados, agora conduzem americanos ao mangue. S茫o v铆timas, um problema que a caridade dos bons de cora莽茫o n茫o resolve. Que adiantam os orfanatos para quinze ou vinte? Que adiantam as col么nias agr铆colas para meia d煤zia? Os 鈥淐apit茫es da Areia鈥� continuam a existir. Crescem e v茫o embora mas j谩 muitos outros tomaram os lugares vagos. S贸 matando a fome dos pais pode-se arrancar 脿 sua desgra莽ada vida essas crian莽as sem inf芒ncia, sem brinquedos, sem carinhos maternais, sem escola, sem lar e sem comida. Os 鈥淐apit茫es da Areia鈥�, esfomeados e intr茅pidos!
Bahia de todos os Santos, Jorge Amado
October 4, 2019
Que livro t茫o bom.
Opini茫o completa no blog:
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March 19, 2017
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June 10, 2021
"(...) a cidade era como que um grande carrossel onde giravam em invis铆veis cavalos os Capit茫es da Areia. Neste momento de m煤sica eles sentiram-se donos da cidade. E amaram-se uns aos outros, se sentiram irm茫os porque eram todos sem carinho e sem conforto e agora tinham o carinho e conforto da m煤sica."
A primeira vez que li Jorge Amado foi com a sua obra 鈥淎 hist贸ria de amor do gato malhado e da Andorinha Sinh谩鈥�. Anos depois, e pouco depois de visitar a funda莽茫o Saramago e ver as fotos do mestre com o autor brasileiro, a vontade de ler aquela que consideram a sua obra magistral apertou mais do que nunca.
N茫o podia ter feito melhor. Que livro incr铆vel. Que humanidade indescrit铆vel a cada p谩gina. Sabem aqueles livros que nos apegam, s茫o t茫o queridos e , ao mesmo tempo, t茫o tristes? Assim 茅 鈥滳apit茫es da Areia鈥�. Dificilmente farei jus 脿 escrita de Amado que nos representa um olhar t茫o humano da sociedade pobre de Bahia, das crian莽as 贸rf茫s que , sendo t茫o jovens, parecem t茫o adultas.
Pedro Bala, o Professor, Pirulito, Dora, Jo茫o Grande, Gato,entre outros s茫o-nos apresentados como algumas das personagens mais vulner谩veis da literatura. Cada um deles apresenta os seus escapes, uma vis茫o particular do mundo que, por serem descritos numa idade t茫o precoce, nos tornam propensos a querer acarinh谩-los. Atrav茅s do cais, do carrossel, das palavras do padre Jos茅 Pedro, dos cuidados de don'Aninha, da liberdade da noite, da vadiagem, das fugas, os Capit茫es da Areia prometem-nos uma vida porreta mas, ao mesmo tempo, t茫o vulner谩vel, necessitada de carinho.
Percebe-se perfeitamente que Jorge Amado , atrav茅s desta obra que foi inclusivamente censurada e queimada , em 1937, faz um retrato da sociedade brasileira, das desigualdades sociais, do mau trato das crian莽as 贸rf茫s , do desengano do sistema em submet锚-los a reformat贸rios. Anos depois, esta obra que 茅 deveras classificada como cl谩ssico, apresenta, como sempre, uma mensagem intemporal.
Uma obra t茫o humana, t茫o incr铆vel e de leitura obrigat贸ria 鉂�
"N茫o deixam os pobres viver...N茫o deixam nem o deus dos pobres viver em paz. Pobre n茫o poder dan莽ar, n茫o pode cantar pra seus deus (...) N茫o se contentam de matar os pobres 脿 fome..."
A primeira vez que li Jorge Amado foi com a sua obra 鈥淎 hist贸ria de amor do gato malhado e da Andorinha Sinh谩鈥�. Anos depois, e pouco depois de visitar a funda莽茫o Saramago e ver as fotos do mestre com o autor brasileiro, a vontade de ler aquela que consideram a sua obra magistral apertou mais do que nunca.
N茫o podia ter feito melhor. Que livro incr铆vel. Que humanidade indescrit铆vel a cada p谩gina. Sabem aqueles livros que nos apegam, s茫o t茫o queridos e , ao mesmo tempo, t茫o tristes? Assim 茅 鈥滳apit茫es da Areia鈥�. Dificilmente farei jus 脿 escrita de Amado que nos representa um olhar t茫o humano da sociedade pobre de Bahia, das crian莽as 贸rf茫s que , sendo t茫o jovens, parecem t茫o adultas.
Pedro Bala, o Professor, Pirulito, Dora, Jo茫o Grande, Gato,entre outros s茫o-nos apresentados como algumas das personagens mais vulner谩veis da literatura. Cada um deles apresenta os seus escapes, uma vis茫o particular do mundo que, por serem descritos numa idade t茫o precoce, nos tornam propensos a querer acarinh谩-los. Atrav茅s do cais, do carrossel, das palavras do padre Jos茅 Pedro, dos cuidados de don'Aninha, da liberdade da noite, da vadiagem, das fugas, os Capit茫es da Areia prometem-nos uma vida porreta mas, ao mesmo tempo, t茫o vulner谩vel, necessitada de carinho.
Percebe-se perfeitamente que Jorge Amado , atrav茅s desta obra que foi inclusivamente censurada e queimada , em 1937, faz um retrato da sociedade brasileira, das desigualdades sociais, do mau trato das crian莽as 贸rf茫s , do desengano do sistema em submet锚-los a reformat贸rios. Anos depois, esta obra que 茅 deveras classificada como cl谩ssico, apresenta, como sempre, uma mensagem intemporal.
Uma obra t茫o humana, t茫o incr铆vel e de leitura obrigat贸ria 鉂�
"N茫o deixam os pobres viver...N茫o deixam nem o deus dos pobres viver em paz. Pobre n茫o poder dan莽ar, n茫o pode cantar pra seus deus (...) N茫o se contentam de matar os pobres 脿 fome..."
June 23, 2012
I started thinking as I was reading Jorge Amado's Captains of the Sands that it reminded me of A Clockwork Orange, both the novel and the movie. In both cases, there were criminal gangs of young toughs ruled by a canny chief, and both gangs were involved in mayhem, murder, and rape -- but unlike Clockwork, Amado takes his gang, named the Captains of the Sands, from young thugs into mythology. Instead of being involved in some strange pseudo-scientific rehabilitation scheme, what happens to the Captains is that they pass into the myth of Brazil's Bahia of the 1930s.
The Captains include Pedro Bala, their leader; the Professor; Legless; Cat; Lollipop; Dry Gulch; Big Joao. And there is, for a short while, a girl, too, named Dora. Some manage to leave into a better life, some into a worse, and some die. Toward the end, Pedro muses on what has happened to the gang:
This is a surprising book. I expected it to end one way, but Amado turned the tables on me. I won't say what happens to Pedro and the lovely little Dora, because that was, for me, the surprise. It is hard to believe that Captains of the Sands dates back to 1937. I felt as if I were reading a contemporary novel.
The Captains include Pedro Bala, their leader; the Professor; Legless; Cat; Lollipop; Dry Gulch; Big Joao. And there is, for a short while, a girl, too, named Dora. Some manage to leave into a better life, some into a worse, and some die. Toward the end, Pedro muses on what has happened to the gang:
Pedro smiled. It was another one leaving. They wouldn't be boys all their lives... He knew quite well that they'd never seemed like children. Since very small, in the risky life on the streets, the Captains of the Sands were like men, were the equal of men. The only difference was in size. In everything else they were equal: they loved and pulled down black girls onto the sand from an early age, they stole in order to live, like the thieves of the city. When they were caught, they were beaten like men. Sometimes they made armed attacks, like the most feared bandits in Bahia. Nor did they talk like children either, they talked like men. They felt the same as men.In the other works by Amado I had read, I kept feeling myself being drawn into this half Christian/half Pagan world, where the tug between the Church and the 肠补苍诲辞尘产濒茅 omnipresent. The Church is mostly on the side of the rich spinsters who keep it in gold and silver, while the 肠补苍诲辞尘产濒茅, and African priestesses like Don'Aninha walk and live side by side with the poor. Amado's Bahia is incredibly rich, and it keeps growing on the reader.
This is a surprising book. I expected it to end one way, but Amado turned the tables on me. I won't say what happens to Pedro and the lovely little Dora, because that was, for me, the surprise. It is hard to believe that Captains of the Sands dates back to 1937. I felt as if I were reading a contemporary novel.
December 4, 2019
Capit茫es da Areia
Captains of the Sand was first published in 1937 and tells the lives of 100 street children living in the slums of Bahia, Brazil. Their gritty, harsh lives consists mainly by stealing and lying to get by under the leadership of Pedro Bala (Peter Bullet). The local authorities along with the Roman Catholic Church made it their mission to crack down on these street kids.
This could be a rather bleak tale (it is) but Jorge Amado builds the story with indelible personalities.
The Professor, who loves to read but also has a wonderful artistic talent. The priest, padre Jos茅 Pedro who has a good heart and wants to save these 鈥渓ost souls.鈥� Gato (Cat) is the macho ladies鈥� man and kind hearted, although threateningly large, Jo茫o Grande. The liar Sem-Pernas, who tries to be adopted by rich families with the through of robbing them blind. A real mixture of characters and stories behind each of them. At the heart is the tragic love story of the leader Pedro Bala and the beautiful Dora.
Throw in the poverty, samba and smallpox outbreak and you have a very entertaining tale. Although my Portuguese was challenged at times, I truly was mesmerized by this book. The last 50 pages are real page turners.
Interestingly when the book was published, it was condemned as being communist and burned. That is odd but typical of the time period. The only reference I could find was the priest was charged as a communist by the committee who reviewed his errant actions. Today, the social realism paints a vibrant story of these children, many who were orphaned and the street life taught them to survive as best as they could.
I read Dona Flor and her Two Husbands a few years back and loved it (old enough to remember the movie with S么nia Braga and loved it). But what amazes me is that this is a classic in Brazil and one that I never knew about (typical me). So I was curious to know what other books were published in 1937? Brave New World, Of Mice and Men, As I Lay Dying to name a few under the social realism category. As I read it I thought of Graham Greene鈥檚 The Power and the Glory (1940) about an outlawed priest in Mexico. Of course, when one thinks of gangs, think only of Clockwork Orange, published in 1962. Wow, this book was decades ahead.
This was the case of finding this book in a bookstore and just buying it. Glad I did.
4.5
Captains of the Sand was first published in 1937 and tells the lives of 100 street children living in the slums of Bahia, Brazil. Their gritty, harsh lives consists mainly by stealing and lying to get by under the leadership of Pedro Bala (Peter Bullet). The local authorities along with the Roman Catholic Church made it their mission to crack down on these street kids.
This could be a rather bleak tale (it is) but Jorge Amado builds the story with indelible personalities.
The Professor, who loves to read but also has a wonderful artistic talent. The priest, padre Jos茅 Pedro who has a good heart and wants to save these 鈥渓ost souls.鈥� Gato (Cat) is the macho ladies鈥� man and kind hearted, although threateningly large, Jo茫o Grande. The liar Sem-Pernas, who tries to be adopted by rich families with the through of robbing them blind. A real mixture of characters and stories behind each of them. At the heart is the tragic love story of the leader Pedro Bala and the beautiful Dora.
Throw in the poverty, samba and smallpox outbreak and you have a very entertaining tale. Although my Portuguese was challenged at times, I truly was mesmerized by this book. The last 50 pages are real page turners.
Interestingly when the book was published, it was condemned as being communist and burned. That is odd but typical of the time period. The only reference I could find was the priest was charged as a communist by the committee who reviewed his errant actions. Today, the social realism paints a vibrant story of these children, many who were orphaned and the street life taught them to survive as best as they could.
I read Dona Flor and her Two Husbands a few years back and loved it (old enough to remember the movie with S么nia Braga and loved it). But what amazes me is that this is a classic in Brazil and one that I never knew about (typical me). So I was curious to know what other books were published in 1937? Brave New World, Of Mice and Men, As I Lay Dying to name a few under the social realism category. As I read it I thought of Graham Greene鈥檚 The Power and the Glory (1940) about an outlawed priest in Mexico. Of course, when one thinks of gangs, think only of Clockwork Orange, published in 1962. Wow, this book was decades ahead.
This was the case of finding this book in a bookstore and just buying it. Glad I did.
4.5
December 14, 2018
QUE MARAVILHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Muito tenho ouvido acerca de Capit茫es da Areia nos 煤ltimos anos. Al茅m de entrar no vestibular da UEMA - institui莽茫o da qual fa莽o parte -, tamb茅m tem sido de outras universidades, al茅m de obra de estudo que vejo com frequ锚ncia em artigos, monografias, disserta莽玫es, teses etc. de todas as 谩reas cient铆ficas. Demorei a l锚-la devido 脿 minha listagem imensa de livros pendentes. Mas por fim a oportunidade chegou. E que experi锚ncia!
Capit茫es da Areia 茅 uma hist贸ria muito bem narrada, muito bem descrita e que atinge o cora莽茫o como uma espada afilada. Todas as personagens est茫o bem criadas. Todas as personagens evoluem, crescem e por isso o leitor sente que n茫o est谩 diante uma obra de fic莽茫o, mas uma obra de fic莽茫o que se fundamenta no humano e na sociedade emp铆rica para construir-se.
Jorge Amado 茅 um artista de pincel grosso. N茫o pretende ser elegante, fino, aristocrata. Jorge Amado pretende ser direto, incisivo, ardente e passional. 脡 um escritor que quer tocar, que quer penetrar no leitor e faz锚-lo ver que a literatura vai muit铆ssimo al茅m do l煤dico - a literatura 茅 a pr贸pria vida. Capit茫es da Areia 茅 a pr贸pria realidade que por muitas vezes nos negamos a aceitar que existe. Ainda bem que um dia nasceu a arte para nos recordar que existe o outro.
Enfim, leiam-no quanto antes, por gentileza.
Muito tenho ouvido acerca de Capit茫es da Areia nos 煤ltimos anos. Al茅m de entrar no vestibular da UEMA - institui莽茫o da qual fa莽o parte -, tamb茅m tem sido de outras universidades, al茅m de obra de estudo que vejo com frequ锚ncia em artigos, monografias, disserta莽玫es, teses etc. de todas as 谩reas cient铆ficas. Demorei a l锚-la devido 脿 minha listagem imensa de livros pendentes. Mas por fim a oportunidade chegou. E que experi锚ncia!
Capit茫es da Areia 茅 uma hist贸ria muito bem narrada, muito bem descrita e que atinge o cora莽茫o como uma espada afilada. Todas as personagens est茫o bem criadas. Todas as personagens evoluem, crescem e por isso o leitor sente que n茫o est谩 diante uma obra de fic莽茫o, mas uma obra de fic莽茫o que se fundamenta no humano e na sociedade emp铆rica para construir-se.
Jorge Amado 茅 um artista de pincel grosso. N茫o pretende ser elegante, fino, aristocrata. Jorge Amado pretende ser direto, incisivo, ardente e passional. 脡 um escritor que quer tocar, que quer penetrar no leitor e faz锚-lo ver que a literatura vai muit铆ssimo al茅m do l煤dico - a literatura 茅 a pr贸pria vida. Capit茫es da Areia 茅 a pr贸pria realidade que por muitas vezes nos negamos a aceitar que existe. Ainda bem que um dia nasceu a arte para nos recordar que existe o outro.
Enfim, leiam-no quanto antes, por gentileza.
October 9, 2012
I read it a few years ago at school. At first, me and my classmates refused about reading it: it was long and sounded bored. I personally love reading but it was hard starting with this one but whan I did, then, I just couldn't stay away from it. The same with my classmates. We all love it. We love every little single part of it. It made us all cry. It made us all fall in love with one of the characters. It made us all read it at least twice. We were around 60 people and now days we all say it's our favourite book.
March 13, 2020
Terminei esta segunda viagem e visita aos "meus meninos" da Ba铆a. Vinte anos depois regressei e, caramba, foi um regresso doloroso, mas obrigat贸rio a uma obra ic贸nica da literatura mundial. O meu c茅rebro ainda est谩 a processar tudo (com sotaque brasileiro, 茅 claro)!
Opini茫o completa aqui (a partir do minuto 11:09):
Opini茫o completa aqui (a partir do minuto 11:09):
April 26, 2024
4.5/5
Kum Kaptanlar谋, Jorge Amado鈥檔un hen眉z 25 ya艧谋ndayken yazd谋臒谋 ilk roman谋; ayn谋 zamanda benim de kendisiyle ilk tan谋艧mam. Brezilya鈥檔谋n Bahia kentinde liman civar谋n谋 mesken tutmu艧 bir grup sokak 莽ocu臒unun hikayesini anlat谋l谋yor genel olarak. B眉y眉k hikaye arkadan aksa da b枚l眉mlere ayr谋lm谋艧 bir s眉r眉 ufak hikaye okuyoruz. Sokaklarda ge莽ti臒i i莽in tahmin edilece臒i 眉zere bolca 鈥渒枚t眉l眉k鈥� var bu romanda. Hayat谋n ac谋mas谋z y眉z眉n眉 莽ocuklara nas谋l g枚sterdi臒ini, 艧iddetin farkl谋 y眉zlerini ele alarak anlat谋yor bize Jorge Amado. Baz谋 k谋s谋mlar谋 -枚zellikle 莽ocuklar谋n (gen莽 ergenlerin) kad谋nlarla kurdu臒u ili艧ki (tecav眉zleri ve tacizleri)- 莽ok a臒谋r. 脺stelik bu 艧iddet dolu ileti艧im bi莽imi bu 莽ocuklar谋n normali olmu艧 halde. Yazar buradaki 莽谋k谋艧s谋zl谋臒谋, karanl谋臒谋 harika aktarm谋艧. Bunu yaparken devlete, kiliseye ve genel olarak sisteme dair de ele艧tirisini esirgemiyor 眉stelik. Nitekim kitab谋n ikinci yar谋s谋nda, 莽ocuklar ba艧ka bir y枚ne do臒ru savruluyorlar ve i艧莽i olarak ba艧ka t眉rl眉 bir m眉cadeleye dahil oluyorlar. Burada yazar谋n 莽谋k谋艧 yolu olarak s谋n谋f bilincini art谋rmay谋 ve sosyalizmi 枚nerdi臒ini g枚r眉yoruz. Do臒rusu karakterin ge莽irdi臒i de臒i艧im 眉zerinden bu 枚nermelere giden yolu da edebi a莽谋dan da duygusal olarak da olduk莽a ba艧ar谋l谋 buldum. Finale giden yol biraz h谋zl谋. Bir 艧ey ele艧tireceksem bunu diyebilirim ancak bir ilk roman oldu臒unu, 87 y谋l 枚nce yay谋nland谋臒谋n谋 d眉艧眉n眉nce bu da 莽ok dert de臒il. 脰zetlemek gerekirse 莽ok severek okudum, yazar谋n di臒er kitaplar谋n谋 da okuyaca臒谋m.
Kum Kaptanlar谋, Jorge Amado鈥檔un hen眉z 25 ya艧谋ndayken yazd谋臒谋 ilk roman谋; ayn谋 zamanda benim de kendisiyle ilk tan谋艧mam. Brezilya鈥檔谋n Bahia kentinde liman civar谋n谋 mesken tutmu艧 bir grup sokak 莽ocu臒unun hikayesini anlat谋l谋yor genel olarak. B眉y眉k hikaye arkadan aksa da b枚l眉mlere ayr谋lm谋艧 bir s眉r眉 ufak hikaye okuyoruz. Sokaklarda ge莽ti臒i i莽in tahmin edilece臒i 眉zere bolca 鈥渒枚t眉l眉k鈥� var bu romanda. Hayat谋n ac谋mas谋z y眉z眉n眉 莽ocuklara nas谋l g枚sterdi臒ini, 艧iddetin farkl谋 y眉zlerini ele alarak anlat谋yor bize Jorge Amado. Baz谋 k谋s谋mlar谋 -枚zellikle 莽ocuklar谋n (gen莽 ergenlerin) kad谋nlarla kurdu臒u ili艧ki (tecav眉zleri ve tacizleri)- 莽ok a臒谋r. 脺stelik bu 艧iddet dolu ileti艧im bi莽imi bu 莽ocuklar谋n normali olmu艧 halde. Yazar buradaki 莽谋k谋艧s谋zl谋臒谋, karanl谋臒谋 harika aktarm谋艧. Bunu yaparken devlete, kiliseye ve genel olarak sisteme dair de ele艧tirisini esirgemiyor 眉stelik. Nitekim kitab谋n ikinci yar谋s谋nda, 莽ocuklar ba艧ka bir y枚ne do臒ru savruluyorlar ve i艧莽i olarak ba艧ka t眉rl眉 bir m眉cadeleye dahil oluyorlar. Burada yazar谋n 莽谋k谋艧 yolu olarak s谋n谋f bilincini art谋rmay谋 ve sosyalizmi 枚nerdi臒ini g枚r眉yoruz. Do臒rusu karakterin ge莽irdi臒i de臒i艧im 眉zerinden bu 枚nermelere giden yolu da edebi a莽谋dan da duygusal olarak da olduk莽a ba艧ar谋l谋 buldum. Finale giden yol biraz h谋zl谋. Bir 艧ey ele艧tireceksem bunu diyebilirim ancak bir ilk roman oldu臒unu, 87 y谋l 枚nce yay谋nland谋臒谋n谋 d眉艧眉n眉nce bu da 莽ok dert de臒il. 脰zetlemek gerekirse 莽ok severek okudum, yazar谋n di臒er kitaplar谋n谋 da okuyaca臒谋m.
April 22, 2020
Eu ADOREI este livro! Adorei, adorei, adorei. Percebe-se perfeitamente porque 茅 que 茅 considerado um cl谩ssico, porque 茅 que este livro 茅 dos livros maiores da literatura. N茫o s贸 brasileira, n茫o s贸 lus贸fona, mas mundial. Ah, cara莽as, que livro! As personagens s茫o t茫o bem constru铆das, a descri莽茫o das ruas e da vida de Salvador est谩 t茫o bem feita, a vulnerabilidade e o orgulho dos Capit茫es da Areia t茫o bem retratada.
Pedro Bala, Sem-Pernas, Professor, Gato, Pirulito, Jo茫o Grande, Boa-Vida, Volta Seca s茫o nomes que nos acompanham durante toda a hist贸ria e s茫o nomes que aprendemos a amar. A dicotomia de serem crian莽as e, ao mesmo tempo, delinquentes e criminosos est谩 sempre presente. A ideia-chave de Capit茫es da Areia, uma ideia repetida muitas vezes, 茅 que "a liberdade 茅 como o sol, o bem maior do mundo". A liberdade 茅 o bem maior do mundo.
Ao lermos este livro, percebemos porque 茅 que Jorge Amado foi perseguido e porque 茅 que 800 exemplares foram queimados em Salvador. O livro retrata cruelmente a sociedade de ent茫o, em que, por exemplo, os ricos, "l谩 em cima", tomavam a vacina contra a var铆ola e os pobres, "c谩 em baixo", suplicavam a Omolu pelas vidas dos seus que sucumbem 脿s bexigas. Uma sociedade em que os oficiais e os directores dos reformat贸rios batem e espancam crian莽as como se nada fosse. Como se as crian莽as n茫o valessem nada. 芦O negro sorri, mas Dora sabe que o sorriso dele 茅 for莽ado, 茅 um sorriso para a animar, um sorriso arrancado 脿 for莽a da tristeza que o negro sente.禄
Capit茫es da Areia n茫o 茅 nada mais do que um retrato da tentativa de luta contra a sociedade, contra o poder institu铆do, contra o fado de quem nasce e vive nas ruas. 芦Vestidos de farrapos, sujos, semiesfomeados, agressivos, soltando palavr玫es e fumando pontas de cigarro, eram, em verdade, os donos da cidade, os que a conheciam totalmente, os que totalmente a amavam, os seus poetas.禄
Perturbador, tocante, ternurento, belo, comovente. Adjectivos que caracterizaram esta obra e, ainda assim, n茫o a descrevem completamente. Um dos livros mais belos e po茅ticos que j谩 li.
芦Voz que chama Pedro Bala, que o leva para a luta. Voz que vem de todos os peitos esfomeados da cidade, de todos os peitos explorados da cidade. Voz que traz o bem maior do mundo, bem que 茅 igual ao sol, mesmo maior que o sol: a liberdade.禄
Pedro Bala, Sem-Pernas, Professor, Gato, Pirulito, Jo茫o Grande, Boa-Vida, Volta Seca s茫o nomes que nos acompanham durante toda a hist贸ria e s茫o nomes que aprendemos a amar. A dicotomia de serem crian莽as e, ao mesmo tempo, delinquentes e criminosos est谩 sempre presente. A ideia-chave de Capit茫es da Areia, uma ideia repetida muitas vezes, 茅 que "a liberdade 茅 como o sol, o bem maior do mundo". A liberdade 茅 o bem maior do mundo.
Ao lermos este livro, percebemos porque 茅 que Jorge Amado foi perseguido e porque 茅 que 800 exemplares foram queimados em Salvador. O livro retrata cruelmente a sociedade de ent茫o, em que, por exemplo, os ricos, "l谩 em cima", tomavam a vacina contra a var铆ola e os pobres, "c谩 em baixo", suplicavam a Omolu pelas vidas dos seus que sucumbem 脿s bexigas. Uma sociedade em que os oficiais e os directores dos reformat贸rios batem e espancam crian莽as como se nada fosse. Como se as crian莽as n茫o valessem nada. 芦O negro sorri, mas Dora sabe que o sorriso dele 茅 for莽ado, 茅 um sorriso para a animar, um sorriso arrancado 脿 for莽a da tristeza que o negro sente.禄
Capit茫es da Areia n茫o 茅 nada mais do que um retrato da tentativa de luta contra a sociedade, contra o poder institu铆do, contra o fado de quem nasce e vive nas ruas. 芦Vestidos de farrapos, sujos, semiesfomeados, agressivos, soltando palavr玫es e fumando pontas de cigarro, eram, em verdade, os donos da cidade, os que a conheciam totalmente, os que totalmente a amavam, os seus poetas.禄
Perturbador, tocante, ternurento, belo, comovente. Adjectivos que caracterizaram esta obra e, ainda assim, n茫o a descrevem completamente. Um dos livros mais belos e po茅ticos que j谩 li.
芦Voz que chama Pedro Bala, que o leva para a luta. Voz que vem de todos os peitos esfomeados da cidade, de todos os peitos explorados da cidade. Voz que traz o bem maior do mundo, bem que 茅 igual ao sol, mesmo maior que o sol: a liberdade.禄
August 10, 2015
puta boa ideia um livro sobre as crian莽as pobres da Bahia na d茅cada de 30, sobrevivendo de crime e sendo vilificadas pela sociedade. pena que em Capit茫es da Areia o her贸i 茅 loiro (?), que todo negro 茅 descrito - pelo narrador, n茫o pelo mon贸logo interno das personagens - como feio, velho ou burro (???), que a perspectiva de uma mulher estuprada conta que ela "come莽a a sentir chegar o desejo" (?????) e que a hist贸ria em si 茅 bem ruinzinha e n茫o vale essa inj煤ria toda
1/5 porque nao tem como dar meia estrela
1/5 porque nao tem como dar meia estrela
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