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Lygia Fagundes Telles

Brazilian author

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Brazilian literature

  • Andrada e Silva
    In Brazilian literature: The short story

    …of the 20th century are Lygia Fagundes Telles, whose tales of women trapped in meaningless relationships sometimes take the form of political allegory, as in the collection Seminário dos ratos (1977; “Seminar of Rats”; Eng. trans. Tigrela and Other Stories); Sérgio Sant’Anna, a novelist whose stories in O concerto de…

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