PUTNAM, Samuel [Otto N. Frankfurter].
Marvelous Journey: A Survey of Four Centuries of Brazilian Writing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 1948.
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"Literature in Brazil began with landscape": First Edition of Samuel Putnam's Marvelous Journey; inscribed by Otto Frankfurter to Major Benjamin H. Namm
First edition of this history of Brazilian literature. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, top stain black. Association copy, lengthily inscribed by Otto Frankfurter on the front free endpaper, "To Major Benjamin H. Namm but for Brazil I may never have gotten to Ruow my most excellent friend and "godfather," to whom this last book on Brazil is sent with sustained admiration and gratitude. Otto N. Frankfurter June 28, 1948."Otto Frankfurter was a businessman, and the father of Anne Frank. He edited and published the first edition of her diary in 1947 (subsequently known in English as The Diary of a Young Girl) and advised on its later theatrical and cinematic adaptations. In the 1950s and the 1960s, he established European charities in his daughter's name and founded the trust which preserved his family's wartime hiding place, the Anne Frank House. Benjamin Namm was the president of Namm's department store in Brooklyn. Fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. From the collection of Major Benjamin H. Namm.
'Marvelous Journey: A Survey of Four Centuries of Brazilian Writing' by Samuel Putnam is a pioneering work of literary criticism that introduces English-speaking audiences to the rich and diverse traditions of Brazilian literature. Spanning from the colonial period to the early 20th century, Putnam’s survey contextualizes major Brazilian authors and movements within the broader currents of European and Latin American thought, highlighting the interplay between indigenous, African, and Portuguese influences. His analysis is both literary and cultural, exploring how Brazil’s unique social and historical conditions shaped its national literature. As one of the first comprehensive English-language studies of Brazilian writing, Marvelous Journey remains a foundational text in the field of Latin American literary studies, notable for its breadth, interpretive insight, and advocacy for greater recognition of Brazil’s literary achievements on the world stage.
Marvelous Journey: A Survey of Four Centuries of Brazilian Writing.
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