Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant - de Almeida, Manuel Antônio; Sousa, Ronald W
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Recognized as a turning point in Brazilian literature, this entertaining novel of urban manners follows the ne'er-do-well Leonardo through his various romantic liaisons and frequent scrapes with the taw. First printed in weekly installments in 1852, and later published in two volumes in 1854 -55, Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant comprises a series of humorous vignettes held together by the adventures and misfortunes of this young rogue -- who matures from a handful of a toddler into a ruffian of a boy and an idler of a young man -- and his father, also named Leonardo.

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Produktbeschreibung
Recognized as a turning point in Brazilian literature, this entertaining novel of urban manners follows the ne'er-do-well Leonardo through his various romantic liaisons and frequent scrapes with the taw. First printed in weekly installments in 1852, and later published in two volumes in 1854 -55, Memoirs of a Militia Sergeant comprises a series of humorous vignettes held together by the adventures and misfortunes of this young rogue -- who matures from a handful of a toddler into a ruffian of a boy and an idler of a young man -- and his father, also named Leonardo.
Autorenporträt
Thomas Holloway is a distinguished historian at Cornell University. His most recent book is Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a Nineteenth-Century City. Flora Süssekind is a professor at the University of Rio de Janeiro and a researcher at the Casa de Rui Barbosa Center for Research. Ronald W. Sousa is a professor in the department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Illinois, Urbana. He is a translator of Latin American fiction, as well as a literary critic and editor.