WRITER

José de Alencar

1829 - 1877

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José Martiniano de Alencar (May 1, 1829 – December 12, 1877) was a Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, novelist and dramatist. He is considered to be one of the most famous and influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the 19th century, and a major exponent of the literary tradition known as "Indianism". Sometimes he signed his works with the pen name Erasmo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José de Alencar has received more than 165,201 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. José de Alencar is the 3,173rd most popular writer (down from 2,689th in 2019), the 292nd most popular biography from Brazil (down from 212th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Brazilian Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Senhora
1937
Iracema
Texts, Portuguese language
1936
O guarani
Fiction, Guarani Indians
1962
Iracéma
1886
O sertanejo, romance brasileiro
1900
O guarani
Guarani Indians, Fiction
1864
Ubirajara
Portuguese language, Readers for new literates
1913
Diva
1920
Senhora
Fiction, Women, Modern fiction
**Senhora** é um romance urbano do escritor brasileiro José de Alencar, publicado em 1874, na forma de folhetim. É um dos últimos romances de Alencar, publicado três anos antes da morte do escritor. Da mesma forma que Iracema, Senhora é juntamente com Lucíola um dos pontos altos da sua ficção citadina e de atualidade. O final feliz é a ultima parte do desenvolvimento do romance — agora em clave de maior densidade psicológica — do motivo do conflito entre o amor e o interesse, presente desde os primeiros livros, notadamente *A viuvinha*. — da [Wikipédia](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senhora_(romance%29) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
1900
Iracema
Texts, Portuguese language, Brazil, biography
1886

Among WRITERS

Among writers, José de Alencar ranks 3,173 out of 7,302. Before him are Casimir Delavigne, Rubem Fonseca, Lily Braun, Nonius Marcellus, Ernst Wiechert, and Halina Konopacka. After him are Antoine de la Sale, Gennadiy Aygi, Jefimija, Isidora Sekulić, Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, and Elia Abu Madi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, José de Alencar ranks 41. Before him are Jean-Jacques Henner, Moritz Cantor, Ignacio Zaragoza, Laura Bridgman, Graziadio Isaia Ascoli, and Carl Schurz. After him are Mikayel Nalbandian, Prince William of Baden, Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg, Antonio Guzmán Blanco, Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, and Laurence Oliphant. Among people deceased in 1877, José de Alencar ranks 36. Before him are Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Alexandre Herculano, Louise Bertin, Alexander Braun, and Charles Wilkes. After him are Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, Nikolay Ogarev, Nathaniel Palmer, Errico Petrella, Wilhelm Hofmeister, and Johann von Herbeck.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, José de Alencar ranks 292 out of 2,236. Before him are Ronaldo Rodrigues de Jesus (1965), Ademir da Guia (1942), Flávio Costa (1906), Luiz Bonfá (1922), João Braz de Aviz (1947), and Rubem Fonseca (1925). After him are Alberto Cavalcanti (1897), Roberto Moreno (1959), Píndaro de Carvalho Rodrigues (1892), Dante (1983), Ronald Golias (1929), and Cândido Rondon (1865).

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Among WRITERS In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, José de Alencar ranks 14. Before him are José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920), Augusto Boal (1931), Osvaldo Moles (1913), Carlos Marighella (1911), Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902), and Rubem Fonseca (1925). After him are Monteiro Lobato (1882), Bernardo Guimarães (1825), Oswald de Andrade (1890), Ana Maria Machado (1941), Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923), and Moacyr Scliar (1937).

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