From Tradition to Innovation: The Short Stories of Osman Lins
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v17i0.3543Abstract
Present in the literary and cultural life of Brazil from 1955, the year of publication of his novel O visitante [The Visitor] until 1978, when he died
prematurely, Osman Lins produced a varied and complex body of work, which, since the beginning of the twenty-first century, has been of growing interest to academic readers, having been languishing in limbo for a number of years. Perhaps the best way to present Osman Lins to a public unfamiliar with his work is to revisit some of his collections of short stories, which reveal the transformation in the poetics of a talented and determined writer following in the tradition of Flaubert, in which the act of writing is the fruit of persistent work with words in order to reach perfection.
Keywords: Osman Lins;short stories; novels.
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