The article proposes to analyze the image of Brazil present in the novel L’uomo di fuoco (The Man of Fire), published in 1904, by the Italian writer Emilio Salgari. From the events related to Caramuru and re-elaborating the traditional representation of Brazil as a country of cannibals by antonomasia, Salgari presents a landscape of admirable beauty, inhabited, nevertheless, by ferocious creatures.

DE MARCHIS, G. (2019). “Nesse país são todos devoradores de homens”: o Brasil aventuroso de Emílio Salgari. OLHO D'ÁGUA, 11(1), 126-133.

“Nesse país são todos devoradores de homens”: o Brasil aventuroso de Emílio Salgari

Giorgio de Marchis
2019-01-01

Abstract

The article proposes to analyze the image of Brazil present in the novel L’uomo di fuoco (The Man of Fire), published in 1904, by the Italian writer Emilio Salgari. From the events related to Caramuru and re-elaborating the traditional representation of Brazil as a country of cannibals by antonomasia, Salgari presents a landscape of admirable beauty, inhabited, nevertheless, by ferocious creatures.
2019
DE MARCHIS, G. (2019). “Nesse país são todos devoradores de homens”: o Brasil aventuroso de Emílio Salgari. OLHO D'ÁGUA, 11(1), 126-133.
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