The Diamond Prospector
Original title: O Garimpeiro (Portuguese)
Credits: Bernardo Guimarães (author)
Summary
Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães was a Brazilian poet and novelist. He is the author of the famous romances A Escrava Isaura and O Seminarista. He also introduced to Brazilian poetry the verso bestialógico, also referred to as pantagruélico (in a reference to Rabelais's character Pantagruel) — poems whose verses are very nonsensical, although very metrical. Under the verso bestialógico, he wrote polemical erotic verses, such as "O Elixir do Pajé" (The Witchdoctor's Elixir) and "A Origem do Mênstruo" (The Origin of Menstruation). A non-erotic poem written in verso bestialógico is "Eu Vi dos Polos o Gigante Alado" (From the Poles I Saw the Winged Giant). This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
From Wikipedia (English): Bernardo Guimarães (CC BY-SA 4.0)
English translation: all 17 published chapters are available.
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