![]() ![]() An Invincible Memory, 1989) played a central role. In this regard, Viva o povo brasileiro (tr. Researchers who study his work affirm that he earned prominence not only as a writer but as an intellectual and political scientist. He became a professor at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) but left academic life behind. ![]() ![]() João Ubaldo Ribeiro graduated from law school and received master’s degrees in business administration and political science. Specialist in the Brazilian short short story known as the crônica, journalist, screenwriter, and intellectual, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, who passed away in July 2014 in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 73, was above all the narrator of a history of Brazil. ![]() I’m just a novelist, a storyteller.” For scholars of his works, he was more than that: he was a philosopher of his people’s identity. When he was inducted into the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL) in 1992, author João Ubaldo Ribeiro, a native of the state of Bahia, evoked the memory of Carlos Castello Branco, whose chair he would occupy: “I am not a man of letters in the strict sense of the term. At the time, he was working on The Lizard’s Smile PEDRO MARTINELLI PEDRO MARTINELLIJoão Ubaldo Ribeiro perched on the root of a tree at the ruins of Nosso Senhor de Vera Cruz Church in Itaparica, 1989. ![]()
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