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Lampiao and Lancelot
Author: Fernando Vilela
Publisher: Cosac Naify
Date: 2006
What do you suppose might happen if the famous outlaw [Lampião] from the backlands of northeastern Brazil were to meet up with one of the medieval knights of King Arthur’s Round Table? Such an extremely unusual meeting led illustrator – and now author – Fernando Vilela to compose an extraordinarily original work, mixing various styles: in verse, using the sextain (six line stanzas) typical of the string literature of the backlands; in prose, in the style typical of the epic narratives of medieval culture, and in stamping and wood engraving. The confrontation between Lampião and Lancelot extends to the special colors that come to fill the pages: silver and copper, in contrast to the black, making up pictures of spectacular beauty. The book also includes a glossary of terms and an explanatory text on the references Vilela used to compose this work, outstanding in terms of both size and talent. The result, as Braulio Tavares points out in the text on the blurb, "is a visual and poetic adventure worthy of the two cultures that inspired it".
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