Introduction: World world vast world of the Brazilian short story
Pt. I. Tropical belle époque (1880s-1921) Machado de Assis (1839-1908) Wedding song, The Siamese academies, The fortune-teller, Life, The nurse, The secret heart, A woman's arms, Dona Paula, Father versus mother, Wallow, swine! ; José Veríssimo (1857-1916) Going after rubber, Returning from rubber gathering ; Emília Moncorva Bandeira de Mello, ( pseud. Carmen Dolores) (1852-1910) Aunt Zézé's tears ; Paulo Barreto ( João Paulo Emílio Cristóvão dos Santos Coelho Barreto, pseud. João Do Rio) (1881-1921) The baby in rose tarlatan, An episode in a hotel ; Lima Barreto (1881-1922) The man who knew Javanese ; Monteiro Lobato (1882-1948) The funnyman who repented.
Pt. II. Modernism (1922-1945) Mário de Andrade (1893-1945) It can hurt plenty, The Christmas turkey ; Aníbal Machado (1895-1964) The death of the standard-bearer, The first corpse ; Alcântara Machado (1901-1935) The beauty contest, Gaetaninho ; João Alphonsus (1901-1944) Sardanapalo ; Breno Accioly (1922-1966) João Urso ; Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953) The thief, Whale ; Jorge Amado (1912-2001) How Porciúncula the Mulatto got the corpse off his back ; Rachel de Queiroz (1910-2003) Metonymy, or The husband's revenge (drama in three scenes) ; Marquês Rebelo (1907-1973) Down our street ; Érico Veríssimo (1905-1975) Fandango: the life and death of a gaúcho, The guerrilla, The house of the melancholy angel.
Pt. III. Modernism at mid-century (1945-1980) Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) The buffalo, The chicken, The smallest woman in the world, The breaking of the bread, The fifth story, Miss Algrave, The body, Plaza Mauá, Beauty and the beast, or, The wound too great ; João Guimarães Rosa (1908-1967) The girl from beyond, Much ado, Sorôco, his mother, his daughter, The third bank of the river, Treetops, Those Lopes, The jaguar ; Osman Lins (1924-1978) Baroque tale or tripartite unity, Easter Sunday ; Dalton Trevisan (b. 1925) The corpse in the parlor, The vampire of Curitiba ; Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes (1916-1977) Her times two ; Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987) Miguel's theft.
