“Bruzundanga's literature is ruled by cute, rhyming and tasteless sonnets.”
Lima Barreto book Os Bruzundangas
Os Bruzundangas (1923)
“I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.”
Source: On the unpredictability of how a written work will be received in “Rabih Alameddine: 'Right now in the west, Arabs are the other'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/09/rabih-alameddine-interview-an-unnecessary-woman-national-book-award in The Guardian (2015 Jan 9)
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