Brazilian Stories Vol.4

In 2002, author Ana Maria Machado launched the first volume of a series of "Brazilian-style" stories that she intended to bring together in a book. The project was born from the author's desire to tell, in her own words, the stories she had heard from her parents, uncles and grandparents. Generations of anonymous narrators helped to construct the most different versions of these stories from oral culture and Brazilian and universal folklore. To create her own, the writer read works by scholars of popular culture - such as Luís da Câmara Cascudo, Sílvio Romero, Monteiro Lobato, among others -, researched collections of short stories from different traditions and also sought inspiration in cordel literature. From a mixture of research, comparison of the different versions, personal memory and tradition, the collection Histórias à Brasileira was born, which now has its fourth volume - composed of the stories "The Warrior Maiden", "The Princess of Bambuluá", "Adivinha, Divinhão ", "The three crowned", "The jaguar, the deer and the monkey", "The tortoise and the alligator", "The three old women who spun", "The golden cumbuca and the marimbondos", "White flower" and "The legend of the water lily". With this fourth volume, the series completes forty stories, all illustrated by the delicate strokes of Odilon Moraes, who freely recreates the Brazilian environment of the tales, giving rise to a new version of each story.