From Tradition to Innovation: The Short Stories of Osman Lins

Authors

  • Sandra Nitrini University of São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v17i0.3543

Abstract

Present in the literary and cultural life of Brazil from 1955, the year of publication of his novel O visitante [The Visitor] until 1978, when he died
prematurely, Osman Lins produced a varied and complex body of work, which, since the beginning of the twenty-first century, has been of growing interest to academic readers, having been languishing in limbo for a number of years. Perhaps the best way to present Osman Lins to a public unfamiliar with his work is to revisit some of his collections of short stories, which reveal the transformation in the poetics of a talented and determined writer following in the tradition of Flaubert, in which the act of writing is the fruit of persistent work with words in order to reach perfection.

Keywords: Osman Lins;short stories; novels.

Author Biography

  • Sandra Nitrini, University of São Paulo

    Sandra Margarida Nitrini is a Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Institute of Brazilian Studies at the University of São Paulo. She has published widely
    on comparative literature, such as Literatura Comparada (1997), Transfigurações (2010), Tessituras, Interações,  Convergências (2011) and other books and critical articles on the work of Osman Lins.

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Published

2015-11-17

Issue

Vol. 17 (2015): ABEI Journal 17

Section

Voices from South America

How to Cite

Nitrini, S. (2015). From Tradition to Innovation: The Short Stories of Osman Lins. ABEI Journal, 17, 105-115. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v17i0.3543