Lins, Osman

Lins, Osman

▪ Brazilian writer
born July 5, 1924, Vitória de Santo Antão, Braz.
died July 8, 1978, São Paulo

      novelist and short-story writer, one of the leading innovators of mid-20th century Brazilian fiction.

      After publishing two novels and a volume of short stories—O visitante (1955; “The Visitor”), O fiel e a pedra (1961; “The Plumbline and the Rock”), and Os gestos (1957; “Gestures”)—written in a fairly traditional style, Lins broke with linear narration to create the three works that secured his reputation: Nove, Novena (1966; Nine, Novena), consisting of nine narratives; Avalovara (1973; Eng. trans. Avalovara), a novel; and A rainha dos cárceres da Grécia (1976; The Queen of the Prisons of Greece). These works subject fictional narrative to an order determined by external elements of “literary architecture.” Several narratives of Nine, Novena parallel signs of the zodiac and geometric ideograms. The Queen of the Prisons of Greece is a fictional diary that integrates literary theory and criticism with a parody of academia. Lins also wrote several plays.

      Lins was a bank clerk in São Paulo from 1943 to 1970 and taught literature from 1970 to 1976.

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