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...THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER AND OTHER STORIES, by Joao Guimaraes Rosa. The mystical core of a significant Brazilian writer is revealed in this collection of sto ries, published posthumously...
...THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER AND OTHER STORIES, by João Guimarães Rosa. The mystical core of a significant Brazilian writer is revealed in this collection of stories, published posthumously...
...four years after he was judged an "immortal" worthy of being seated by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Joāo Guimarāes Rosa donned the official gold-braided uniform and formally took his chair. Publicly, he explained the delay by saying he had been too busy to write his acceptance speech. Privately, he feared that becoming an "immortal" was an unnecessary challenge to his own mortality. Seventy-two hours after the ceremony, his seven-year-old niece went into his study to offer him some popcorn and found him dead of a heart attack...
...Brazilian edition, published in 1962, was titled Primeiras Estorias (First Stories). The index was illustrated with pictograms representing the themes of the tales; the drawings are reprinted on the dust jacket of the U.S. edition...
Married. Erich Leinsdorf, 56, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1962; and Vera Graff, 33, Brazilian-born violinist; both for the second time (he divorced his wife of 28 years last May); in Albany...