Amar, Verbo Intransitivo

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Amar, Verbo Intransitivo is a modernist Brazilian novel by Mário de Andrade that explores themes of love, sexuality, and bourgeois morality through the story of a German governess hired to initiate a young man into adult life.

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instanceOf novel
author Mário de Andrade NERFINISHED
character Carlos NERFINISHED
Carlos's parents
Fräulein
countryOfOrigin Brazil
form prose
genre erotic fiction
modernist literature
psychological fiction
hasFemaleLeadCharacter Fräulein
hasTitleInOriginalLanguage Amar, verbo intransitivo
languageVariant Brazilian Portuguese NERFINISHED
literaryMovement Brazilian Modernism NERFINISHED
mainTheme bourgeois morality
initiation into adult life
love
sexuality
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor exploration of erotic education within a bourgeois family context
use of modernist narrative techniques
originalLanguage Portuguese
plotSummary A bourgeois family hires a German governess to initiate their adolescent son into adult life and sexuality.
protagonist Carlos NERFINISHED
setting São Paulo NERFINISHED
subject emotional consequences of arranged erotic relationships
family honor
governess–pupil relationship
sexual initiation
theme class and bourgeois hypocrisy
conflict between desire and social conventions
education of sentiment
emotional detachment and attachment
female sexuality

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Mário de Andrade notableWork Amar, Verbo Intransitivo