12/28/2022 0 Comments Novela tieta do agresteHe reciprocates, unbeknownst to his mother/her sister, the very pious Perpetua. She falls in love with her young nephew, Ricardo, who is very pious and in training to be a priest, and seduces him. The first might be described as the Tieta effect – the effect she has on the inhabitants of Agreste. There are two main plots here which Amado spins out. The alleged stepdaughter is merely a whore in her whorehouse. Yes, she did know the Comendador and was his lover but he was already married. Of course, we have figured out – and Amado soon tells us – that her money comes not from a rich marriage (she is not married) but because she is the madam of the most exclusive whorehouse in Sño Paolo. Then they learn that Tieta’s husband – a rich executive and a Comendador no less – has died and Tieta is to return to Agreste with her stepdaughter and, they hope, money and presents. When the money does not arrive one month, there is extensive panic, with Amado building up the tension. Indeed, they have come to depend on the money for their little luxuries. Since then she has never returned but she does send money to her relatives – her widowed (but remarried) father and her two (married, though one is widowed) sisters. Tieta – Antonieta Esteves Cantarelli – left the tiny, remote town of Agreste when she was young. Anyone who has read Amado before will understand the joke that he plays on us for the first 100 pages here. Home » Brazil » Jorge Amado » Tieta do Agreste (Tieta) Jorge Amado: Tieta do Agreste (Tieta)Īmado loves to drag out his little jokes, particularly one where the savvy reader knows what’s up but where the characters and the less savvy readers remain in ignorance.
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