/lit/ - Literature

>>12210510
The poorest part of Brazil is by far the best one in terms of literature.

I am referring to the Northeast, specially to the state of Pernambuco, which produced a disproportional number of great writers and intellectuals. Apparently even the very poor still cultivate a type of popular literature there named 'poesia de cordel', which reminds one of the old Iberian 'romances'. They even have a Cid/Roland type of character in the figure of Lampião, a bandit from the 30's. If I remember correctly, João Cabral de Melo Neto once said that he became a poet after listening to the workers at his father's farm reciting cordel literature among themselves.

I am not from Pernambuco, by the way, nor do I have family there. I am just stating a fact.