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Verissimo Erico
(1905—1975)

Erico Verissimo is an important Brazilian writer, who was born in Rio Grande do Sul. His father, heir of a rich family in Cruz Alta, met financial ruin during his son's youth. Verissimo worked in a pharmacy before arriving at Editora Globo, a book publisher, where he translated and released works of writers like Aldous Huxley. During the Second World War, he went to the United States. This period of his life was retold in some of his books, like Gato Preto em Campo de Neve (Black Cat in a Snow Field) and A Volta do Gato Preto (The Return of the Black Cat), plus História da Literatura Brasileira (History of Brazilian Literature), which contains some of his lectures at UCLA. His epic O Tempo e o Vento (The Time and the Wind) became one of the great masterpieces of the Brazilian novel, alongside Os Sertões by Euclides da Cunha, and Grande Sertão: Veredas by Guimarães Rosa.

Brazil, 1980, Captain Rodrigo