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João Simões Lopes Neto is one of the greatest authors of brazilian literature. His writtings are full of passion, wild beauty and bloody adventure. His experiments with language made him a hard-reading author and his books are almost impossible to translate. That explains why he is so little known outside of his homeland -- the southern brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. His work deals with the image, the history and the imaginary of the "gaúcho", the rural man of southern Brazil, Uruguai and Argentina. In Lopes Neto's pages the gaucho is a nomad, a warrior, a rude philosopher, a poet of the nature and above all a story-teller. His most celebrated book, Contos Gauchescos (i.e. "Tales of the Gauchos") is a series of short stories told by a character named Blau Nunes, an old wanderer of the southern "pampas", who invites the reader to share his memories of love, death, friendship, villany and heroism.

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First published January 1, 1912

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João Simões Lopes Neto

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João Simões Lopes Neto foi um escritor e empresário brasileiro. Segundo estudiosos e críticos de literatura, ele foi o maior autor regionalista do Rio Grande do Sul, pois procurou em sua produção literária valorizar a história do gaúcho e suas tradições.
Simões Lopes Neto só alcançou a glória literária postumamente, em especial após o lançamento da edição crítica de Contos Gauchescos e Lendas do Sul, em 1949, organizada para a Editora Globo, por Augusto Meyer e com o decisivo apoio do editor Henrique Bertaso e de Érico Veríssimo.
Em certa fase da vida, empobrecido, sobreviveu como jornalista em Pelotas, sua cidade natal. Morreu na mesma cidade, aos cinquenta e um anos, de uma úlcera perfurada.

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