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Ossa danzanti, fantasmi e altri incubi tropicali
2019
First Published
3.48
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148
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Questa raccolta di racconti appartiene a quel filone della letteratura che non è particolarmente horror né troppo fantastico. Tutti le storie, infatti, sono caratterizzate da elementi che rimandano a entrambi i generi. Sviluppatasi a cavallo fra il XVIII e il XIX secolo, questa forma letteraria viene vista come il riflesso del movimento Romantico, attratto dal mistero, dall'orrore, dal soprannaturale e dal grottesco e che ha influenzato diversi autori. Grazie alla scrittura raffinata e al tempo stesso semplice e adatta a ogni tipo di lettore, i racconti di Ossa danzanti, fantasmi e altri incubi tropicali snocciolano uno dopo l'altro elementi macabri e grotteschi, che sviluppano in chiave horror la classica dicotomia manicheista del bello-buono/brutto-malvagio, invertendo spesso l'ordine degli avvenimenti e insinuando dubbi nella memoria del lettore: sogno o realtà? Verità o illusione? È proprio questa ambiguità il punto principale dei racconti. Il fantastico vive di questa incertezza, di quell'esitazione che deve essere raccontata.
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Authors

Monteiro Lobato
Monteiro Lobato
Author · 31 books
José Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato (April 18, 1882 - July 4, 1948) was one of Brazil's most influential writers, mostly for his children's books set in the fictional Yellow Woodpecker Ranch but he had been previously a prolific writer of fiction, a translator and an art critic. He also founded one of Brazil's first publishing houses (Companhia Editora Nacional) and was a supporter of nationalism.
Humberto de Campos
Humberto de Campos
Author · 6 books
Humberto de Campos Veras (Miritiba, October 25, 1886 – Rio de Janeiro, December 5, 1934) was a Brazilian journalist, politician and writer. He published his first book of verses, titled "Poeira" (1st series) in 1910, when he was 24 years old, which earned him some recognition. Two years later he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he continued his journalistic career and became known in the literary circles of the federal capital, attracting the friendship of writers such as Coelho Neto, Emílio de Menezes and Olavo Bilac. He starts to work at the newspaper "O Imparcial", next to illustrious figures such as Rui Barbosa, José Veríssimo, Vicente de Carvalho and João Ribeiro. He becomes more and more known nationally for his chronicles published in various newspapers in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and other Brazilian capitals, sometimes under his pseudonym "Conselheiro XX".
Machado de Assis
Machado de Assis
Author · 63 books

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, often known as Machado de Assis, Machado, or Bruxo do Cosme Velho, (June 21, 1839, Rio de Janeiro—September 29, 1908, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer. He is widely regarded as the most important writer of Brazilian literature. However, he did not gain widespread popularity outside Brazil in his own lifetime. Machado's works had a great influence on Brazilian literary schools of the late 19th century and 20th century. José Saramago, Carlos Fuentes, Susan Sontag and Harold Bloom are among his admirers and Bloom calls him "the supreme black literary artist to date."

Bernardo Guimaraes
Bernardo Guimaraes
Author · 4 books

Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães was born in the city of Ouro Preto, in Minas Gerais, to João Joaquim da Silva Guimarães (a poet) and Constança Beatriz de Oliveira Guimarães. He graduated himself at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo in 1847, where he befriended the poets Álvares de Azevedo and Aureliano Lessa. With those and others, he founded the "Sociedade Epicureia" ("Epicurean Society") in the same year, and also planned with them an unsuccessful collection of poetry called As Três Liras (in English: The Three Lyres). In 1852, he became a judge in the city of Catalão, Goiás, a post he held until 1854. He moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1858, and, in the following year, worked as a literary critic in the newspaper Atualidade. He returned to his duty of judge of Catalão in 1861, but returns once again to Rio de Janeiro in 1864. In 1866, he became teacher of Rhetoric and Poetics in Ouro Preto. He got married in 1867. In 1873, he became teacher of Latin and French in the city of Queluz, in Minas Gerais. He is honored by the Brazilian monarch Pedro II in 1881. Bernardo died poor, in Ouro Preto, in 1884.

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