''Serafim Ponte Grande'' is a novel by the

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ian writer

Oswald de Andrade José Oswald de Souza Andrade (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic. He was born in, spent most of his life in, and died in São Paulo. Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism ...

. It was first published in 1933, though portions were published earlier in magazines. It's been described as "the complete and powerful application of social satire in Brazil''"'' and "a degenerate invention of a quasi-novel." Andrade also stated that he wrote the novel backwards.

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