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O Ermitão do Múquem

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A obra tem como enredo a história de um rapaz muito devoto de Nossa Senhora da Abadia em Muquém, na margem do Tocantins, em Goiás. Ao matar, quase acidentalmente um amigo, teve que se refugiar para não acertar as contas com a Justiça. O milagre da santa o recambiou a Muquém, onde tornou-se um ermitão místico, de comportamento medieval. Relato romanceado da vida do nativo do Planalto Central. Na obra se encontra não só o caráter indianista, mas o retrato das paisagens, tipos, usos e costumes do sertão do Brasil Central, do qual era profundo conhecedor.

164 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1864

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Bernardo Guimarães

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Bernardo Joaquim da Silva Guimarães was born in the city of Ouro Preto, in Minas Gerais, to João Joaquim da Silva Guimarães (a poet) and Constança Beatriz de Oliveira Guimarães.

He graduated himself at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo in 1847, where he befriended the poets Álvares de Azevedo and Aureliano Lessa. With those and others, he founded the "Sociedade Epicureia" ("Epicurean Society") in the same year, and also planned with them an unsuccessful collection of poetry called As Três Liras (in English: The Three Lyres).

In 1852, he became a judge in the city of Catalão, Goiás, a post he held until 1854. He moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1858, and, in the following year, worked as a literary critic in the newspaper Atualidade. He returned to his duty of judge of Catalão in 1861, but returns once again to Rio de Janeiro in 1864. In 1866, he became teacher of Rhetoric and Poetics in Ouro Preto. He got married in 1867. In 1873, he became teacher of Latin and French in the city of Queluz, in Minas Gerais. He is honored by the Brazilian monarch Pedro II in 1881. Bernardo died poor, in Ouro Preto, in 1884.

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February 21, 2026
Uma grande obra literária. Encontrei neste livro uma janela muito bem escrita para a origem da mistura cultural típica do Nordeste brasileiro, particularmente entre a sociedade branca e a indígena. Um verdadeiro tour de force que adquire sentido com a passagem das folhas. Tem aventura, amor, paixão, honra e dor.
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