“In the Samoiedas literary school, the students get satisfied only with shallow literary appearances and a ordinary simulation of notoriety, sometimes because of their intellectual incapacity and some other times by a vicious and careless instruction.”

— Lima Barreto , book Os Bruzundangas

Os Bruzundangas (1923)

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