A Devil in the Amazon Rainforests: Two Tales of Leão Pacífico Esaguy
The two tales that make up Contos amazonenses, 1981, reflect much of the passion of Esaguy for the Amazonia jungle and its culture as well as the intertwining of Jewish culture with the present, from the traces in his texts. In this book, as well as in other Aleijadinho, 1982, and Enxuga as lágrimas...
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| Format: | Article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication date: | 2011 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | UFMG |
| Repository: | Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/14082 |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/maaravi/article/view/14082 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Amazônia Judaísmo Diabo Amazon Judaism Devil |
| Summary: | The two tales that make up Contos amazonenses, 1981, reflect much of the passion of Esaguy for the Amazonia jungle and its culture as well as the intertwining of Jewish culture with the present, from the traces in his texts. In this book, as well as in other Aleijadinho, 1982, and Enxuga as lágrimas e segue o caminho que te determinaste, 1999, the background of the stories is always the lush beauty and grandeur of the Amazonia rainforests. The variety of animals and their behaviors are elements that populate the fictional universe of the author, beyond the frames in which his characters, shifting cultivators, hunters and riparian face jaguars “atrevidas e sanhudas”,as the narrator defines them. |
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