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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
أجملُ ما قرأت هذا العام. سحريّة ⭐️
funny
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
"Quando um homem morre, ele se reintegra em sua respeitabilidade a mais autêntica, mesmo tendo cometido loucuras em sua vida. A morte apaga, com sua mão de ausência, as manchas do passado e a memória do morto fulge como diamante."
Novela muito bem-humorada e prazerosa de ler. Nos mostra a vida e a morte de Joaquim e Quincas, suas duas vidas: uma "moral" e outra "imoral".
Talvez a vida o tenha levado a esse estado, ou ele sempre foi assim, apenas se continha nas amarras da época.
Novela muito bem-humorada e prazerosa de ler. Nos mostra a vida e a morte de Joaquim e Quincas, suas duas vidas: uma "moral" e outra "imoral".
Talvez a vida o tenha levado a esse estado, ou ele sempre foi assim, apenas se continha nas amarras da época.
After reading The Captains of the Sands, The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray seemed almost a bridge from Amado’s earlier novels about Bahia, and Dona Flor and her two husbands. Evoking Bahia with his usual love and care, in the same way he did with Ilheus in his previous novel, Gabriella, Clove and Cinnamon (another one of his well known novels and one of my favourites) there is an injection of humour here, and a warm depiction of the under world of Bahia.
Amado brings Quincas back to life to celebrate his own wake. After walking out on his well to do family, declaring the women ‘vipers’, he spends the last, and happiest years of his life on the streets as a champion drunk. After his first death, his family try to restore him back to the respectable Joaquim Soares da Cunha, but after dressing him up and getting him a coffin, they leave the wake, and his old friends take him off to the sea with his love in celebration of his life.
What makes this different from Dona Flor is that while Vadinho is obviously a ghost, Quincas comes back to life, but in the descriptions, I couldn’t help but wonder if Quincas was actually only alive in the minds of his friends:
Quincas Water-Bray enjoying himself mightily, was trying to trip up the corporal and the black man. He was sticking out his tongue at passersby and tipping his head into doorways for a leer at lovers. With every step he took, he felt like lying down on the street.
The movements seemingly how a corpse would behave if being dragged along the streets by a bunch of drunken men. I’m not sure why I picked up on this and why it stayed with so much, I wasn’t sure if it worked. I wondered if Amado portrayed Quincas this way intentionally, playing with the idea, and evolved it for Dona Flor, or if I’m just way off..probably the latter.
My peculiar musings aside I enjoyed this short. Amado paints all his locations in an almost magical way, they are as much characters as the people that inhabit them and Quincas is someone who finds happiness late in his life (although to be fair, we never seem to learn exactly why he hated his family as much as he did) and lays himself to rest in the way that he wanted, an interesting idea wherever you are in the world.
(blog review here)
Amado brings Quincas back to life to celebrate his own wake. After walking out on his well to do family, declaring the women ‘vipers’, he spends the last, and happiest years of his life on the streets as a champion drunk. After his first death, his family try to restore him back to the respectable Joaquim Soares da Cunha, but after dressing him up and getting him a coffin, they leave the wake, and his old friends take him off to the sea with his love in celebration of his life.
What makes this different from Dona Flor is that while Vadinho is obviously a ghost, Quincas comes back to life, but in the descriptions, I couldn’t help but wonder if Quincas was actually only alive in the minds of his friends:
Quincas Water-Bray enjoying himself mightily, was trying to trip up the corporal and the black man. He was sticking out his tongue at passersby and tipping his head into doorways for a leer at lovers. With every step he took, he felt like lying down on the street.
The movements seemingly how a corpse would behave if being dragged along the streets by a bunch of drunken men. I’m not sure why I picked up on this and why it stayed with so much, I wasn’t sure if it worked. I wondered if Amado portrayed Quincas this way intentionally, playing with the idea, and evolved it for Dona Flor, or if I’m just way off..probably the latter.
My peculiar musings aside I enjoyed this short. Amado paints all his locations in an almost magical way, they are as much characters as the people that inhabit them and Quincas is someone who finds happiness late in his life (although to be fair, we never seem to learn exactly why he hated his family as much as he did) and lays himself to rest in the way that he wanted, an interesting idea wherever you are in the world.
(blog review here)
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
"A Morte e a morte de Quincas Berro D'água" foi meu primeiro contato com um livro de Jorge Amado. Decidi lê-lo após indicação de um amigo e fiquei muito satisfeito.
Fiz a leitura de forma bem rápida, ainda mais do que eu esperava. São pouco mais de 100 páginas muito bem trabalhadas com uma escrita tão boa que me fez ter vontade de ler mais obras de Jorge Amado (algo que farei para o próximo ano). A narrativa pode muito bem ser definida como uma aula sobre a Bahia e sobre o Brasil - tanto quanto a figuras místicas quanto a esse lado boêmio que por vezes carrega a nossa história.
Dou exatas 4 estrelas por ser tão brilhante assim. Excelente.
Fiz a leitura de forma bem rápida, ainda mais do que eu esperava. São pouco mais de 100 páginas muito bem trabalhadas com uma escrita tão boa que me fez ter vontade de ler mais obras de Jorge Amado (algo que farei para o próximo ano). A narrativa pode muito bem ser definida como uma aula sobre a Bahia e sobre o Brasil - tanto quanto a figuras místicas quanto a esse lado boêmio que por vezes carrega a nossa história.
Dou exatas 4 estrelas por ser tão brilhante assim. Excelente.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Da austero, rispettabile e sottomesso marito e padre di famiglia a vagabondo, ubriacone e idolo delle prostitute, la parabola gloriosa di Quincas, detto l'acquaiolo per il suo disgusto nei confronti dell'acqua come bevanda.
Una celebrazione della doppia natura dell'uomo e del meticciato culturale baiano, in un romanzo breve che contiene moltissimi degli argomenti più cari ad Amado.
Una celebrazione della doppia natura dell'uomo e del meticciato culturale baiano, in un romanzo breve che contiene moltissimi degli argomenti più cari ad Amado.
Tranquilamente, um dos melhores livros desse ano.
É importante morrermos como bem entendemos!
É importante morrermos como bem entendemos!
Uma novela divertidíssima de Jorge Amado que narra as mortes de Quincas Berro Dágua, estorvo para a sua família há mais de dez anos, mas a luz da noite para os bêbados da Bahia. Na melhor tradição da literatura brasileira com personagens mortos, Jorge Amado fala aqui sobre a vida. Esse é o tema central do livro, apesar do que o nome da obra possa sugerir a princípio. Quincas aproveitou a sua vida. Isso é inegável. Agora é a vez de nós leitores aproveitarmos da vida e das mortes dele.
Bahia
This book is exactly what I would expect from Amado. A quick and enjoyable read giving a glimpse of a surreal Salvador and its diverse citizens, connected by the quirky thread of Quincas.
This book is exactly what I would expect from Amado. A quick and enjoyable read giving a glimpse of a surreal Salvador and its diverse citizens, connected by the quirky thread of Quincas.