Shepherds of the night

The novel was created from the end of 1963 until the beginning of 1964 in Salvador and was released as the first edition in July 1964 ^[1] . “Shepherds of the night” can be regarded as a 3-part novel involving the same characters, observing the unity of time and place of action. In addition, the work is considered as a collection of independent short stories or short stories ^[1] . “Shepherds of the night” include three short stories (or novels ):

• “The true and detailed story of the marriage of Corporal Martin, rich in events and surprises, or Romantic Curio and the disappointments of treacherous love”
• “ Interval for the baptism of Felicio, the son of Masu and Benedita, or Qum Ogun ”
• “Capture of the Mata Gato Hill, or Friends of the People”

The action of the novels takes place in Salvador - in the port, on the streets and in the courtyards, on the terreira (venues) of the Candomble and in capoeira circles. In the first part (short story), the rumor about the marriage of Corporal Martin to Marialva stirs up Bahia and reaches the neighboring state of Sergipe . With its attractiveness, the beautiful Marialva arouses the interest of many men, Curio falls in love with the wife of his best friend Martin. The favorite of women, Corporal Martin, helps the young prostitute of Otalia find and return her suitcase. In the second part, the powerful and huge black man Massu adopts the child of a prostitute Benedita, with whom he had a fleeting connection. The godfather of the blue-eyed boy is Orisha Ogun . In the third novel, the inhabitants of the hill of Mata Gato ( Mata Gato ) are forced to protect their homes and confront the police, as the owner of the land plot obtained permission to expel them from their property ^[2] .

In Brazil, the Shepherds of the Night novel has withstood about 50 reprints. The original language was published in Portugal . Translated into English , Bulgarian , Hungarian , Hebrew , Spanish , Italian , German , Dutch , Polish , Romanian , Russian , Slovak , Slovenian , Turkish , Finnish , French , Czech ^[1] . In the USSR, as well as in Brazil, the novel came out in its entirety; moreover, short stories were published separately in the collected works of the writer.

In 1977, the author recorded the reading of excerpts from the novel for the Library of Congress ^[2] .

First edition in original language

• Amado J. Os Pastores da Noite / capa de Clóvis Graciano, ilustrações e frontispício de Aldemir Martins e retrato do autor por Carlos Scliar. - São Paulo: Livraria Martins Editora, 1964 .-- 320 p.

In Russian

• Amadou J. We grazed the night / Transl. with port. Yu. A. Kalugina // Foreign Literature : Literary and Art Journal. - M. , 1966. - ISSN 0130-6545 . No. 2, 3.
• Amadou J. Shepherds of the night = Os pastôres da noite / Per. with port. Yu.A. Kalugin; foreword L. S. Ospovat; ed. L. Borisevich. - M .: Progress , 1966 .-- 328 s.

Editions of selected short stories

• Amadou J. Interval for the baptism of Felicio, the son of Masu and Benedita, or Kum Ogun / Per. with port. Yu. A. Kalugin // Selected works: in 2 volumes / Comp. I.A. Terteryan . - M .: Fiction , 1982. - T. 2. - S. 499-550. - 584 p. - 100 000 copies
• Amadou J. Capture of the Mata-Gato Hill, or Friends of the People / Per. with port. Yu. A. Kalugin // Selected works: in 2 volumes / Comp. I.A. Terteryan . - M .: Fiction, 1982. - T. 2. - S. 337-452. - 584 p. - 100 000 copies
• Amadou J. Capture of the Mata-Gato hill, or Friends of the people // Collected Works: in 3 volumes / Georges Amadou; comp., foreword I.A. Terteryan ; per. with port. Yu. A. Kalugin. - M .: Fiction, 1987. - T. 3. - S. 7-116. - 527 s.

• 1976 - Otalia de Bahia , a film by the French filmmaker Marcel Camus from Orfée Arts-Claire Duval was shot in Salvador, shown on Brazil in 1977 ^[1] under the name Os pastores da noite ^[3]
• 2002 - Pastores da Noite , Brazilian miniseries directed by Maurício Farias from 4 episodes ( O Casamento do Cabo Martim , O Cumpadre de Ogum , A Paixão de Curió and Um Vestido para Otália ) with the participation of Eduardo Moskovis ( Corporal Martín ), Lazaru Ramus ( Massu ), Fernanda Montenegro ( Tiberius ), Steniu Garcia ( Shalub ), Camila Pitangi ( Marialva ), Milton Gonçalves ( Canon ), Daniela Winits ( Madame Beatrice ), Rodrigue Santoru ( Padre Gomez ) and other actors ^[4]

• Qum Oguna

• Os pastores da noite, 1964 (port.) . Obras . Fundação Casa de Jorge Amado. Date of treatment February 2, 2019.
• Os pastores da noite (port) . Obras . Companhia das Letras. Date of treatment February 4, 2019.
• Os Pastores da Noite on YouTube - Original title Otalia de Bahia