Novels, such as
Dona Flor and her Two Husbands
(1966), of Brazilian writer Jorge Amado depict society as incapable of dealing with the chaos of lives of actual individuals.
People know best Jorge Amado de Faria of the modernist school and translated his extensive work into thirty languages; film popularized him in 1978. His work dealt largely with the poor urban black and mulatto communities of Bahia.
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