The Discovery of America by the Turks, published for the first time in English in Rabassa’s brilliant translation, is a whimsical Brazilian take on The Taming of the Shrew that will remind readers why Jorge Amado is to Portuguese-language literature what Jorge Luis Borges is to Spanish-language literature.
It tells the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, who drops dead after abandoning his upstanding life to assume the identity of Quincas Water-Bray, a "champion drunk" who is whisked along on a postmortem journey that climaxes in his loss at sea. The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray, newly translated by the dean of Portuguese-language translators, is widely considered the greatest work by the twentieth century’s foremost Brazilian author. The program will include a clip from João Moreira Salles’s documentary Jorge Amado (1995). The program will include a clip from a documentary on Jorge Amado by João Moreira Salles. Join legendary translator Gregory Rabassa and award-winning novelist Rivka Galchen in a lively discussion and reading that celebrates what would have been the Brazilian author’s one-hundredth birthday and the publication, by Penguin Classics, of two new translations of Amado’s masterworks: The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray and The Discovery of America by the Turks. For further details, click here (Americas Society members) or here (non-members). SPECIAL OFFER: Attend the program and get copies of the two Jorge Amado books published by Penguin Classics at a discounted price. Admission Fee: FREE for AS and QSSI Members $10.00 for non-members.
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