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The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma

`The seed of madness exists in all of us and with no warning may attack, overpower, crush and bury us…` Policarpo Quaresma – fastidious civil servant, dedicated patriot, self-styled visionary – is a defender of all things Brazilian, full of schemes to improve his beloved homeland. Yet somehow each of his ventures, whether it is petitioning for Brazil`s national language to be changed, buying a farm to prove the richness and fertility of the land, or offering support to government forces as they suppress a military revolt – results in ridicule and disaster. Quixotic and hapless, Quaresma`s dreams will eventually be his undoing. Funny, despairing, moving and absurd, Lima Barreto`s masterpiece shows a man and a country caught in the violent clash between illusion and reality, hope and decline, sanity and madness.

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