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This text aims to help students develop reading, oral, and written comprehension of Portuguese and uses use of Dicionario do Viajante Insolito by Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar as a point of departure. Divided into 26 units, each presents a story.

From Brazil's most distinguished and important Jewish writer comes this anthology comprised of six collections: in The Carnival of the Animals, Scliar uses political allegory to convey what was normally censored during the height of repression under Brazil's military regime. These tragicomic stories reveal Scliar's interest in issues of oppression, persecution, holocaust, mutability, and the interplay between good and evil. The Ballad of the False Messiah develops the theme of postponement in the sense that for Jews redemption is always postponed in a vain wait for the Messiah. In The...

"Lusty . . . strenuous comedy . . . Amado is Brazil's most illustrious and venerable novelist."
New York Times