Word: amado
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS by Jorge Amado. 553 pages. Knopf...
Food and sex. Sex and food. Chicken in coconut milk-vatapá-then a white night under the stars. These constitute life in the Brazilian state of Bahia, according to its most celebrated writer, Jorge Amado. They are also the fixed points in the remarkable history of his latest heroine, Dona Flor...
Dona Flor is rich and leisurely, as much verbal aphrodisiac as novel. Flor is a close cousin to Amado's most celebrated heroine. Gabriela (in Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon), another lady capable of cooking up a storm in the kitchen or in bed. In lavishing details of color, touch and taste, Amado so ignores the canons of construction that at times he seems embarked on little more than an engaging shaggy-dog story...
...reason for his expansive mood is that he is really writing a love letter to Bahia. Formerly an earnest Communist, he turned out several stark novels (sample title: Sweat). Gabriela marked an abrupt mellowing in Amado's outlook. Now he romanticizes his Bahians into virile lovers, darkly sensual morenas, whores and neighbors, all larger than life. According to rumor, Dona Flor's friends are not the Bahian poor, but Amado's own circle of artists and intellectuals, whom he has costumed as peasants for a literary romp à clé. To that degree, Dona Flor...
Created under the will of Abiel Smith, who graduated from Harvard in the class of 1764, the Smith Professorship has been held by George Ticknor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, J. D. M. Ford, Jean-Joseph Seznec, Amado Alonso, Herbert Dieckmann and others. Lida's appointment will be effective July...