The Country of Carnival

The Country of Carnival (Portuguese: O País do Carnaval) is a 1931 novel by Brazilian writer Jorge Amado.

The Country of Carnival was Jorge Amado’s first novel, written when he was only 18 at a time when he had enrolled at the law faculty in Rio de Janeiro.

Considered subversive, The Country of Carnival was one of the books of Amado and others that were burned in a public square in Salvador by order of the Vargas Era regime in 1937.

He joins a group of intellectuals in Salvador to discuss matters of love, politics, religion and philosophy.

Its excesses are cause for shock, even if his contact with the people during the street festivities makes him again feel genuinely Brazilian.