OXFORD ANTHOLOGY of the BRAZILIAN SHORT STORY
Edited by
K. DAVID JACKSON
OXPORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2OO6 CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: World World Vast World of the Brazilian Short Story
PART I
Tropical Belle Epoque (1880S-1921)
MACHADO DE ASSIS (1839-1908) Wedding Song 3 8 The Siamese Academies 42 The Fortune-Teller 48 Life 55 The Nurse 61 The Secret Heart 68 A Woman's Arms 75 Dona Paula 82 Father versus Mother 89 Wallow, Swine! 97
JOSE VERISSIMO (1857-1916) Going after Rubber 101 Returning from Rubber Gathering 106
EMILIA MONCORVA BANDEIRA DE MELLO (PSEUD. CARMEN DOLORES) (1852-1910) Aunt Zeze's Tears 111
PAULO BARRETO {JOAO PAULO EMILIO CRISTOVAO DOS SANTOS COELHO BARRETO; PSEUD. JOAO DO RIO) (1881-1921) The Baby in Rose Tarlatan 116 An Episode in a Hotel 121
LIMA BARRETO (1881-1922) The Man Who Knew Javanese 127 MONTEIRO LOBATO (1882-I948) The Funnyman Who Repented 135
PART II
Modernism (1922-1945)
MARIO DE ANDRADE (1893-1945) It Can Hurt Plenty 150 The Christmas Turkey- 160
ANIBAL MACHADO (1895-1964) The Death of the Standard-Bearer 164 The First Corpse 172
ALCANTARA MACHADO (1901-1935) The Beauty Contest 181 Gaetaninho 186
JOAO ALPHONSUS (1901-1944) Sardanapalo 189
BRENO ACCIOLY (1922-1966) Joao Urso 194
GRACILIANO RAMOS (1892-1953) The Thief 203 Whale 211
JORGE AMADO (1912-2001) How Porciuncula the Mulatto Got the Corpse off His Back 215
RACHEL DE QUEIROZ (1910-2003) Metonymy, or The Husband's Revenge (Drama in Three Scenes) 223
MARQUES REBELO (1907-1973) Down Our Street 228
ERICO VERISSIMO (1905-1975) Fandango: The Life and Death of a Gaucho 235 The Guerrilla 242 The House of the Melancholy Angel 244 PART III
Modernism at Mid-Century (1945-1980)
CLARICE LISPECTOR (1920-1977) The Buffalo 262 The Chicken 268 The Smallest Woman in the World 270 The Breaking of the Bread 274 The Fifth Story 276 Miss Algrave 278 The Body 283 Plaza Maua 288 Beauty and the Beast, or, The Wound Too Great 291
JOAO GUIMARAES ROSA (1908-1967) The Girl from Beyond 299 Much Ado 302 Soroco, His Mother, His Daughter 312 The Third Bank of the River 315 Treetops 319 Those Lopes 325 The Jaguar 328 OSMAN LINS (1924-1978) Baroque Tale or Tripartite Unity 355 Easter Sunday 366
DALTON TREVISAN (B. 1925) The Corpse in the Parlor 378 The Vampire of Curitiba 383
PAULO EMILIO SALLES GOMES (1916-1977) Her Times Two 386
CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE (1902-1987) Miguel's Theft 404 PART IV
Contemporary Visions (after 1980)
NELIDA PINON (B. 1936) Big-Bellied Cow 414 Brief Flower 419
LYGIA FAGUNDES TELLES (B. 1923) Just a Saxophone 424
MURILO RUBIAO (1916-1981) Zacarias, the Pyrotechnist 431 J. J. VEIGA (1915-1999) The Misplaced Machine 437 MOACYR SCLIAR (B. 1937) The Cow 440 The Last Poor Man 443 AUTRAN DOURADO (B. I926) Bald Island 447
OR'IGENES LESSA (1903-1986) Marta: A Souvenir of New York 456 RUBEM FONSECA (B. 1925) Large Intestine 460
CARLOS HEITOR CONY (B. 1926) Order of the Day 468
SAMUEL RAWET (1929-1984) The Prophet 481
HILDA HILST (1930-2004) Agda 486
VICTOR GIUDICE (1934-1997) The File Cabinet 493
EDLA VAN STEEN (B. 1936)
CAROL head LINA heart 496 Contents xv
CAIO FERNANDO ABREU (1948-1996) Dragons... 502
MILTON HATOUM (B. 1952) The Truth Is a Seven-Headed Animal 510
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 515 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 519