The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell

Name: The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell
Rating: 4.0625 (16 reviews)
Author: Jorge Amado
ISBN: 9780380754762

by Jorge Amado, Gregory Rabassa, Rivka Galchen

4.1

(16 ratings)

96 pages1959Avon Books (P)ISBN 9780380754762

Classics Fantasy Fiction

About this book

"Along with The Discovery of America by the Turks, two masterworks by the greatest Brazilian novelist of the twentieth century, published for the centennial of his birth. Widely considered the greatest work by the foremost Brazilian author of the twentieth century, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray comes to Penguin Classics in a new translation by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, Gregory Rabassa. It tells the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, who drops dead after he abandons his life of upstanding citizenship to assume the identity of Quincas Water-Bray, a "champion drunk" and bum who is whisked along on a postmortem journey that climaxes in his loss at sea"--

Publication Details

Publisher: Avon Books (P)
Published: 1959
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780380754762
Language: en

About Jorge Amado

Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands in 1976. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences. He occupied the 23rd chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1961 until his death in 2001. He won the 1984 International Nonino Prize in Italy. Jorge Amado also was Federal Deputy for São Paulo by Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) between 1947 and 1951. **Source**: [Jorge Amado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Amado) on Wikipedia