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Urupês
work by Monteiro Lobato
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Brazilian literature
- In Brazilian literature: Modernismo and regionalism
…Lobato’s short stories, collected in Urupês (1918; “Urupês”). Faced with the paucity of Brazilian books for young readers, Lobato also wrote 17 volumes of children’s stories and is considered a master of juvenile literature.
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discussed in biography
- In José Bento Monteiro Lobato
…later collected in his book Urupês (1918; “Mushrooms”). In these he introduced the character Jeca Tatu (“Joe Armadillo”), who became the symbol of the Brazilian backlander. “Poor Jeca Tatu,” Lobato comments. “You are so handsome in novels and so ugly in real life! You don’t talk; you don’t sing; you…
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