O Rei Da Vela by Oswald de Andrade
A caustic, carnival-like drama that skewers Brazil’s bourgeoisie and its complicity with foreign capital: it follows a vainglorious, fraudulent entrepreneur who rises by exploitation while a gallery of grotesque, comic figures and surreal episodes exposes national hypocrisy, moral decay and cultural servility; through sharp, aphoristic language, black humor and modernist playfulness the work satirizes capitalist greed, political corruption and the absurdities of social ambition.
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- Brazilian
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- Original Language
- Portuguese
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- Alternate Titles
- - The Candle King
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