RAMOS, GRACILIANO

rämˈŏs, 1892–1953, Brazilian novelist. His work is marked by psychological analysis and focuses on social problems in rural districts of NE Brazil.

See his novel São Bernardo (1934, tr. 1975) and his memoir Childhood (1949, tr. 1979); study by C. de Oliveira (1988).

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The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel
Book by Raymond Leslie Williams; University of Texas Press, 2005
Subjects:	Spanish American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
...Gregory, 126 Ramirez, Armando, 172 Ramirez, Sergio, 166, 174, 175, 2o8, 209 Ramos, Graciliano, 45, 90, 93, 100 Ramos, jos6 Antonio, 8 Ramos, Luis Arturo, 168, 186, 207, zro, zm, zr3, zr4, zr7 Ramos, Samuel, 214, 217...

A Bibliography of Latin America and the Caribbean, The Hilton Library
Book by Ronald Hilton; Scarecrow Press, 1980
Subjects:	Hilton, Ronald--1911---Library, Latin America--Bibliography--Catalogs
8245. RAMOS, GRACILIANO. Vidas secas . Rio de Janeiro: 1947. 195 pp. R. Inscribed. 8246. RAMOS, RICARDO. Memoria de setembro . Rio...171 pp. R. Inscribed. 8247.8249. RAMOS, ROBERTO. Bibliografia de la Revolucion...

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Cultures
Book by Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, Ana M.López; Routledge, 2000
Subjects:	Caribbean Area--Encyclopedias, Latin America--Encyclopedias
...Ednodio Quiroga, Horacio Quiroga Santa Cruz, Marcelo Raful, Tony Ramirez Mercado, Sergio Ramos Otero, Manuel Ramos Sucre, Jose Antonio Ramos, Graciliano Raschella, Roberto Rauskin, Jacobo A. Rawet, Samuel Reckord, Barry Reckord, Michael...

Brazil: Culture and Politics in a New Industrial Powerhouse
Book by Ronald M. Schneider; Westview Press, 1996
...84, 91 Radio stations, number of, 194 Railroads, 41 , 150 -151 Rain forests, 1 , 21 , 23 , 122 Ramos, Graciliano, 196 , 200 Ramos, Nereu, 75 Real Plan Cardoso Plan , 123 , 126 , 127 , 153 Recife, 32 revolt in, 40 settlement of...

The Brazilians
Book by Joseph A. Page; Perseus Books, 1995
Subjects:	Brazil--Economic Conditions--1985-, Brazil--Religious Life And Customs, Brazil--Social Conditions--1985-, Ethnology--Brazil, National Characteristics, Brazilian
...413 racial democracy 11 , 59 , 61 , 71 -72, 74 , 75 , 83 , 230 , 476 radionovela , 449 -51 Ramos, Arthur, 61 Ramos, Graciliano, 188 Ramos da Silva, Fernando, 274 -75 rain forest, 1 , 86 Raoni, Chief, 86 Readers Digest , 167 Realidade...

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Bosi, Alfredo. Literatura E Resistencia
Journal article by Jaime Ginzburg; Chasqui, Vol. 32, 2003
Subjects:	Literatura e resistencia (Libro)
...Rosa. Bosi estuda, entre outros, Lima Barreto e Graciliano Ramos. Os dois livros tem em comum a presenca de reflexoes...antagonismos, a face dura do conflito. Os textos sobre Graciliano Ramos e Carlos Drummond de Andrade dao testemunho de urna...

Conscription versus Penal Servitude: Army Reform's Influence on the Brazilian State's Management of Social Control, 1870-1930
Journal article by Peter M. Beattie; Journal of Social History, Vol. 32, 1999
Subjects:	Brazil--Military policy, Draft--History, Prison discipline--Military aspects, Social control--Military aspects
...folha 382; Letter from the District Attorney Graciliano Auguost Cesar Mandelo to the Police Chief, Villa...Nortet (Rio, 1971), 94-8. 89. See novelist Graciliano Ramos harrowing personal account of his experience as a...

Social Life and Civic Education in the Rio De Janeiro City Jail
Journal article by Amy Chazkel; Journal of Social History, Vol. 42, 2009
Subjects:	Administration of criminal justice--History, Criminal justice, Administration of--History, Prisons--History, Prisons--Management, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (City)--History
...1830 Criminal Code, see Joaquim Jose Pereira da Silva Ramos, O Indicador Penal Contendo por ordem Alphabetica as...prisao politica feminina (Rio de Janeiro, 1988); Graciliano Ramos, Memorias do carcere 3rd ed. (Rio de Janeiro, 1953...

Stepping into Prose
Journal article by Flora Süssekind; World Literature Today, Vol. 66, 1992
Subjects:	Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...Lispector" (What They Say about C. L.). In Serial ( 1961 ), a poem composed around a speech attributed to Graciliano Ramos , Cabral incorporates the qualities of the fictionists discourse in a poem, itself dry, terse, and succinct...

Essays
Journal article by John M. Parker; World Literature Today, Vol. 66, 1992
Subjects:	Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...Recife, a goat, et cetera) or to define the creative processes of writers and artists with whom he identifies (Graciliano Ramos, Marianne Moore, Francis Ponge, Joan Miro, Mondrian). Now in his forties, Joao Cabral had reached great maturity...

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Ramos, Graciliano
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RAMOS, GRACILIANO ram os, 1892 1953, Brazilian novelist. His work is marked by psychological analysis and focuses on social problems in rural...

Brazilian Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...poets of stature, including Manuel Bandeira. The social novel came into its own in the 1930s with the works of Graciliano Ramos , Jose Lins do Rego , and Jorge Amado . Their concern with the Brazilian interior has been continued by writers such...

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