![]() ![]() I was very touched to renew memories of this wonderful artist. para Santa F at aca r a r esi dnci a dos Ama rai s. Rodrig o vai ento para a Gue rra dos Fa rrapos e, a inda d urante a guerra, volta. But once, near the end of my time in that country, I was on a lecture tour in Rio Grande do Sul and my hosts took me to the Museu Erico Verissimo, built by his local fans to commemorate his memory. s eu po vo, n a cidade fi ct cia de Sant a F. O tempo e o vento (3 Volumes) Series 3 primary works 3 total works See also: O tempo e o vento (7 Volumes) Book 1 O Continente by Erico Verissimo 4. I never saw Erico when I was resident in Brazil. His son went on to become one of the most widely read and wittiest journalists in Brazil. for some years, directing the Pan American Institute of Cultural Exchange in Washington. On the flyleaf of the first volume he drew a delightful caricature of himself, with bristling eyebrows. ![]() He gave me an autographed set of the books. It ran to three volumes and was entitled The Archipelago. I had done a summer course on Brazilian literature (with Ray Sayers) and so I knew he was the author of a best-selling family saga about his home state of Rio Grande do Sul. ![]() Since I was one of the few of that breed on campus, he looked me up. He had come to Cambridge, Massachusetts when I was still a fledgling Brazilianist. This noted novelist was one of the first Brazilians I met before I ever got to Rio. ![]()
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