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8°, later mottled quarter calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands in five compartments (some minor wear), crimson morocco lettering pieces in second and fourth compartments, short author-title lettered gilt, gilt fillets; publication date numberred gilt at foot, decorated endleaves, original printed wrappers bound in. Some foxing, mostly light but a bit more pronounced on title page. In good to very good condition. Two-line penciled inscription on verso of first final free endleaf, dated 1965. (2 ll.), 122 pp., (1 l. errata). *** FIRST EDITION of the this seminal work, referred to by Sacramento Blake thus: "É das obras deste autor aquella talvez, em que mais se revela a elevação e altivez de seus pensamentos." The "Waterfall of Paulo Afonso", or "Paulo Afonso Falls" are a series of waterfalls on the São Francisco River near the city of Paulo Afonso in Bahia state, Brazil. A cachoeira de Paulo Afonso contains 33 poems of varying meter and length that together tell a single story of the tragedies and hardships of slavery through the tale of a slave girl raped by her master's son. The work was later included in Castro Alves' posthumously published poetry collection Os escravos. Castro Alves (1847-1871), born at Curalinho, Bahia (now renamed Castro Alves) died from tuberculosis at the age of 24. He is unquestionably the foremost Brazilian Romantic poet and the chief exponent of social themes during the Romantic period, often rated the best lyric poet Brazil ever produced. As a student in Recife, he participated in the political and social struggles that eventually led to the emancipation of Brazil's slaves in 1888 and to the establishment of the Republic. Republicanism and emancipation became the themes of his heroic poetry at a time when these were not yet popular ideas among the Brazilian public. Castro Alves helped found the escola condoreira, sometimes called the "third romantic generation"-a group of young writers who took Victor Hugo as their model. He was a protégé of Machado de Assis and José de Alencar, and was praised by Eça de Queiroz and Afrânio Peixoto. Castro Alves is known internationally as the "poet of the slaves," a title secured after the appearance of his other major work, Os escravos.*** Horch, Bibliografia de Castro Alves 419: identifying this as the first edition. Sacramento Blake I, 132: listing separate editions of the Cachoeira and Fragmentos dos Escravos, both published in Bahia, 1876, and giving collation for neither. Innocêncio XX, 190: citing Fragmentos dos Escravos sob o titulo de "Manuscrito de Stenio," Bahia 1871, without collation. Cf. Eugênio Gomes, Castro Alves, poesia (Nossos clássicos 44). NUC: InU, DCU-IA, MH. N° de réf. du vendeur 44536
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Titre : A cachoeira de Paulo-Affonso. Poema original...
Éditeur : Bahia, Imprensa Economica, 1876.
Reliure : Couverture souple
Edition : Edition originale
