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José de Alencar (May 1, 1829—December 12, 1877), was a Brazilian novelist. Born in Fortaleza, Alencar was son of an important senator, José Martiano de Alencar, and the cousin of the later, Ana Josefina de Alencar. May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ...
1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
December 12 is the 346th day (347th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ...
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After earning a bachelor's degree in Law he traveled to Rio de Janeiro, and started to work for some newspapers there, Correio Mercantil and Diário do Rio de Janeiro. By that time, Correio Mercantil was served by other important Brazilian writers like Machado de Assis and Joaquim Manuel de Macedo. After been prevented from publishing some articles in the Correio, Alencar and some of his friends bought the Diário do Rio de Janeiro, where the novelist published his first romances, Cinco Minutos (1856) and A Viuvinha (1857). Law (a loanword from Danish- Norwegian lov), in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide punishments for those who do not follow...
Ipanema beach A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (meaning River of January in Portuguese) is the name of both a state and a city in southeastern Brazil. ...
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (June 21, 1839 - September 29, 1908) was a Brazilian realist novelist, poet and short-story writer born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ...
Following the partial success of the first writtings, Alencar published O Guarani (1857), acquiring nationwide fame. O Guarani was the first of a trilogy about the Brazilian natives - the other two are Iracema (1865) and Ubirajara (1874). In those books the native is dressed as his european counterpart, the medieval knight. Since Brazil hadn´t a past (as the european descendents thought), the solution for create a national mythology was to adapt the european manners to tropical values. A statue of an armoured knight of the Middle Ages For the chess piece, see knight (chess). ...
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The big project of Alencar was, in fact, to affirm in all fields the indepedence of Brazil. A nationalist, Alencar was even misunderstood by his contemporaries when advocating the use, in literature, of a truly national language (despite the common use of Portuguese language without changes), for example. He also defended the nationalism by many other ways and in many other fields. Two famous contenders of Alencar were Gonçalves Dias and Joaquim Nabuco. Joaquim Aurélio Barreto Nabuco de Araújo (August 19, 1849—January 17, 1910) was a Brazilian writer and statesman. ...
In 1860 Alencar entered on politics (delegate from Rio de Janeiro on Brazil´s congress). In 1877 he was called to be a minister of imperator Dom Pedro II. But soon after, in the same year, he was diagnosed tuberculous, and died in Rio after an unsuccessful attemp to cure himself at Europe.
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