Salomão e as mulheres.

Rio de Janeiro, Empreza Graphica Editora-Paulo, Pongetti & Cia., 1927.. First Edition. 8°, early half beige buckram (some rubbing and soiling), original printed wrappers bound in. Some browning and foxing; not a good quality paper to begin with, as is bluntly stated in a printed note on the third leaf at the end: "Toda a edição foi tirada neste papel ruim." Overall in good condition. Author's signed ("JL") and dated (1927) two-line presentation inscription on the half-title, "Ao Auryno Maciel - meu irmão pequeno." 248 pp., (3, 1 blank ll.). *** FIRST EDITION of Jorge de Lima's first novel, published while he was still a government employee in Alagoas. This copy is inscribed to his good friend Auryno Maciel, who is also one of the dedicatees and is mentioned twice in the lengthy Latin note on the first unnumbered leaf following the text.Jorge Mateus de Lima (1895-1953), a native of União dos Palmares (Alagoas), was a prominent Modernist poet and co-founder of the Northeastern school. He is "acclaimed as one of the most spontaneous natural poetic geniuses of Brazilian literature, [but] he is considered by some to be a perpetually dissatisfied poet in search of new worlds to conquer and never content with his own brilliant performance" (Stern pp. 176-77). In 1931 Lima moved to Rio de Janeiro and began teaching Brazilian literature. His earlier works included, in verse, the precocious XIV Alexandrinos, 1914; O mundo do menino imposível, 1925; Poemas, 1927; and A comédia dos erros, 1923. Although known primarily as a poet, he also wrote novels, children's literature and art criticism. The influences on his work range from Parnassianism to Symbolism, Modernism and Surrealism. As a young man Lima was torn between becoming a physician or a priest, and although he studied to be the former, many of his writings reflect a religious temperament that seems to have become stronger toward the end of his life, for example, in Tempo e eternidade, 1935, and A túnica inconsutil, 1938. Lima is closely linked with José Lins do Rego in the founding of the Northeastern school.*** Menezes, Dicionário literário brasileiro (1976) p. 367. On the author, see Carpeaux, Pequena bibliografia crítica da literatura brasileira pp. 276-8; Werneck Sodré, História da literatura brasileira pp. 529, 537, 551, 575; Bandeira, Brief History of Brazilian Literature pp. 147, 148, 149-50, 153; Wilson Martins, História da inteligência brasileira VII, 1, 28, and elsewhere (34 references). Porbase locates a single copy, at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal. Not located in NUC.