# Brazilian short stories

Author: Lobato, José Bento Monteiro, 1882-1948; Goldberg, Isaac, 1887-1938 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Haldeman-Julius, E. (Emanuel), 1888-1951 [Editor]

Genre: Short stories, Brazilian -- Translations into English

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78403

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Brazilian+short+stories+Lobato&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Monteiro Lobato represents the most recent phase of the Brazilian reaction against Gallic literary influence. Though not pretending primarily to be a writer, he yet has inaugurated what amounts not “to” almost to a new period of the national letters. At the bottom of his nationalism, however, is the one valid foundation of art: sincerity. If occasionally he overdoes his protest against the French, he may well be forgiven because of its sound basis; it is part of his own personality to see things in the primary colors, to play the national zealot not in any chauvinistic sense; he is no blind follower of the administrative powers, no nationalist in the ugly sense of cheap partisan drum-beat...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/brazilian-short-stories-78403/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/brazilian-short-stories-78403/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/brazilian-short-stories-78403/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/brazilian-short-stories-78403/chapters/4/index.md)