World Canonical Texts
I read J.G. Merquior's essay "The Brazilian and the Spanish American literary traditions: a constrastive view" - in this 20 page essay, the author threw out lots of names. Before is the list for the Brazilian authors (writing in Portuguese I assume). Names with x at the end are somewhat important authors (and/or those highlighted in the Introduction to Volume 3). Names with xx are literary leaders of their generation.
| Pero Vaz de Caminha's letters | Prose | |
| Pero de Magalhaes Gandavo (fl. 1570): Historia (1576) | Prose | |
| Manuel da Nobrega (1517-1570): Dialogo sobre a conversao do gentio (1577) | Prose | |
| Jose de Anchieta (1534-1597) | Prose | |
| Bento Teixeira (1564?-?): Prosopopeia (printed no earlier than 1601) | Epic | |
| Ambrosia Brandao's Grandezas do Brasil (1618) | Prose | |
| Francisco Rodrigues Lobo (1580?-1622?): Corte na aldeia (1619) | Lyric poetry | |
| Vicente do Salvador (1564-1636?): first general history of Brazil | History | |
| Antonio Vieira (1608-1697) | Prose | |
| Gregorio de Matos (1623?-1696): religious poems, satirical and erotic pieces | Poetry | |
| Botelho de Oliveira (1636-1711): Musica do Parnaso (1705) | Poetry | |
| Andre Joao Antonil (1650-1721?): Cultura e opulencia do Brasil por suas drogas e minas (1711) | Prose | |
| Claudio Manuel da Costa (1729-1789) | Lyric poetry | |
| Jose Basilio da Gama (1741-1795): O Uraguai (1769) | Lyric/Epic poetry | |
| Tomas Antonio Gonzaga (1744-1810?) | Lyric poetry | |
| Manuel Inacio da Silva Alverenga (1749-1814) | Lyric poetry | |
| Antonio Pereira de Sousa Caldas (1762-1814) | Lyric poetry | |
| Francisco de Monte Alverne (1784-1859) | oratory | |
| Manuel Jose de Araujo Porto Alegre (1806-1879) | Lyric poetry | |
| Domingo Jose Goncalves de Magalhaes (1811-1882): launched Romanticism in Paris (1836) | Lyric poetry | |
| Luis Carlos Martins Pena (1815-1848) | Drama | |
| Antonio Goncalves Dias (1823-1864): "I-Juca-Pirama" (1851): "simply the best poem, in the strong poematic sense, produced in Poruguese during the whole of the 19th c." | Lyric poetry | xx |
| Manuel Antonio Alvares de Azevedo (1831-1852) | Lyric poetry | |
| Manuel Antonio de Almeida (1831-61): Memorias de um sargento de milicias (1854-55) | Novel | x |
| Jose de Alencar (1829-1877): O guarani (1857); Iracema (1865); treatise on representative government | Novel | xx |
| Casimiro de Abreu (1839-1860) | Lyric poetry | |
| Luis Nicolau Fagundes Varela (1841-1875) | Lyric poetry | |
| Joao Franklin da Silveira Tavora (1842-1888) | Lyric poetry | |
| Tobias Barreto (1839-1889) | Prose/verse | |
| Joaquim Nabuco (1849-1910) | Prose | |
| Rui Barbosa (1849-1923) | Prose | |
| Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) | Novel | xx |
| Aluisio Azevedo (1857-1913): O mulato (1881) | Novel | x |
| Alberto de Oliveira (1857-1937) | Lyric poetry | |
| Olavo Bilac (1865-1918): Poesias (1888); Tarde (1919) | Lyric poetry | |
| Raul Pompeia (1863-1895): O Ateneu (1888) | Novel | |
| Joao da Cruz e Sousa (1861-1898) | Lyric poetry | x |
| Jose Pereira da Graca Aranha (1868-1931) | Novel | x |
| Euclides da Cunha (1866-1909): Os sertoes (1902) | Novel | xx |
| Augusto dos Anjos (1884-1914): Eu (1912) | Lyric Poetry | x |
| Manuel Bandeira (1886-1968) | Lyric Poetry | x |
| Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1811-1922) | Novel | x |
| Cornelio Pena (1896-1958) | Novel | |
| Mario de Andrade (1893-1945): Macunaima (1928) | Mixed genre | xx |
| Frederico Schmidt (1906-1965): Passaro cego (1930) | Lyric Poetry | |
| Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987) | Prose | x |
| Murilo Mendes (1901-1975) | Lyric Poetry | |
| Oswald de Andrade (1894-1954): Serafim Ponte Grande (1933) | Novel | x |
| Pedro Nava (1903-1984) | Prose | |
| Graciliano Ramos (1892-1952): Vidas secas (1938) | Novel | xx |
| Cecilia Meireles (1901-1964): Viagem (1939) | Lyric Poetry | |
| Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987): Sentimentodo mundo (1940); A rosa do povo (1945); Claro enigma (1951) | Lyric Poetry | xx |
| Dinah Silveira de Queiroz (1910-1983) | Novel | |
| Nelson Rodrigues (1912-1980) | Drama | |
| Jose Lins do Rego (1901-1957): Fogo morto (1943) | Novel | x |
| Lucio Cardoso (b.1913) | Novel | |
| Vincius de Moracs (1913-1980) | Lyric Poetry | |
| Adonias Filho (b. 1915) | Novel | |
| Jose J. Veiga (b. 1915) | Novel | |
| Guiherme Figueiredo (b. 1915) | Drama | |
| Joao Cabral de Melo Neto (b. 1920): Psicologia da composicao (1947); Uma faca so lamina (1956); O rio (1954) | Lyric Poetry | xx |
| Mario Chamie | Lyric Poetry | |
| Jorge de Lima (1895-1953): Invencao de Orfeu (1952) | Lyric Poetry | x |
| Jorge Andrade(1922-1984) | Drama | |
| Lygia Fagundes Telles (b. 1923) | Novel | |
| Ledo Ivo (b.1924) | Lyric Poetry | |
| Dalton Trevisan (b. 1925) | Novel | |
| Marly de Oliveira | Lyric Poetry | |
| Rubem Fonseca (b. 1925) | Short Story | |
| Autran Dourado (b. 1926) | Novel | |
| Joao Guimaraes Rosa (1908-1967): Corpo de baile (1956); Grande sertao: veredas (1956) | Novel | xx |
| Ariano Suassuna (b. 1927) | Drama | |
| Jorge Amado (b. 1912): Gabriela, cravo e canela (1958) | Novel | x |
| Haroldo de Campos (b. 1929) | Lyric Poetry | |
| Clarice Lispector (1925-1977): Lacos de familiar (1960) | Novel | x |
| Augusto de Campos (b. 1931) | Lyric Poetry | |
| Gianfrancesco Guarnieri (b. 1934) | Drama | |
| Antonio Callado: Quarup (1967) | Novel | |
| Moacyr Scliar (b. 1937) | Short Story | |
| Chico Buarque de Holanda (b. 1944) | Lyric Poetry | |
| Cacaso (Antonio Carlos de Brito (b. 1944)) | Lyric Poetry | |
| Caetano Veloso | Lyric Poetry | |
| Ferreira Gullar (b. 1930): Poema sujo (1975) | Lyric Poetry | |
| Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna | Lyric Poetry | |
| Francisco Alvim | Lyric Poetry | |
| Chacal | Lyric Poetry | |
| Heloisa Buarque de Holanda | Critic | |
| Jorge Mautner | Lyric Poetry | |
| Paulo Leminski | Lyric Poetry | |
| Ignacio de Loyola Brandao: "tougher"; Zero (1975) | Lyric Poetry | |
| Raduan Nassar (b. 1935): Lavoura arcaica (1975) | Novel | |
| Fernando Gabeira | Prose | |
| Darcy Ribeir: Maira (1976) | Novel | |
| Marcio Souza: "feuilleton";Galvez, Imperador do Acre (1977) | Lyric Poetry | |
| Nelida Pinon (b. 1936): A republica dos sonhos (1984) | Novel | x |
| Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro (b. 1940): Viva o povo brasileiro (1984) | Novel | |
| Ruth Villela: Beira vida (1989) | Lyric Poetry | |
| Pedro Paulo Sena Madureira: Rumor de facas (1989) | Lyric Poetry |
If we take ~33 years to be one generation, then major authors identified in started with Goncalves Diaz (b. 1823) and ends with Nelida Pinon (b. 1936) - and even the latter seems to be mentioned in the Introduction because she was one of the few female authors. Excluding her the list ends with Clarice Lispector (b. 1925, the foremost female author in the tradition). Altogether there are just 3-4 generations of key authors.
b. 1820-30s: Goncalves Dias (poet), Alencar (novelist), Machado (novelist)
b. 1860s: Euclides da Cunha (novelist)
b. 1890-1900s: Mario de Andrade (multiple genres), Graciliano Ramos (novelist), Drummond (poet), Guimaraes Rosa (novelist)
b. 1920s: Cabral (poet)
For Portuguese-language literature, it seems that after the Lusiads in the next version of the list I should consider including Machado de Assis.
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