“Brasil, um país do futuro”: projeções religiosas e leituras sobre um mote de Stefan Zweig

Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho

“Brasil, um país do futuro”: projeções religiosas e leituras sobre um mote de Stefan Zweig

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This article makes a reading of Viennese writer Stefan Zweig’s book Brasil, um país do futuro (Brazil, a country of the future), pointing out how far the author’s discourse is endowed with certain prophetical aspects when it refers to Brazil. His desire to see Brazil, in the 40’s, as a land free from the intolerance and violence that devastated Europe during World War II made Zweig revive the mythological image of the country as a paradisiacal land, a rediscovered Eden. His description of Brazil, rather than optimistic, acquires a prophetical aspect when he emphasizes the fact that the prevailing harmony and peace of the country made it a locus for the advent of a messianic and utopian future. Curiously, the writer/prophet often betrayed his prophecies, projecting in Brazil old European values, and sometimes contradicting himself as to the issue of tolerance and harmony that he witnessed in Brazil.

Original language	Other
Pages (from-to)	30-42
Number of pages	13
Journal	Horizonte
Volume	5
Issue number	9
Publication status	Published - 2006

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