his, Time and the Wind, Night, Mexico, and His Excellency, the Ambassador, were translated into the English language by Linton Lomas Barrett. In 1965 Verissimo published the romance O Senhor Embaixador ("His Excellency, the Ambassador"), in which he reflected upon the deviations of Latin America. In the romance Incidente em Antares ("Incident in Antares"), written in 1971, he traces a parallel with Brazilian politics with the use of fantasy, with the rebellion of corpses during a strike of the gravekeepers, in the fictitious city of Antares. After suffering from a heart attack in 1975, Verissimo was unable to complete the second volume of his autobiography entitled Solo de Clarineta ("Clarinet Solo"), which was intended to be a trilogy, apart from a romance which would be entitled A Hora do Sétimo Anjo ("The Hour of the Seventh Angel"). He was the father of another famous writer of Rio Grande do Sul, Luis Fernando Verissimo. Works His works have been compiled on three occasions: Obras de Erico Verissimo ("Works of Érico Veríssimo") – 1956 (17 volumes) Obras completas ("Complete Works") – 1961 (10 volumes) Ficção completa ("Complete Fiction")– 1966 (5 volumes) Érico Verissimo's books have been translated to German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Dutch, Hungarian, Indonesian, English, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian and Czech. Short stories Fantoches ("Puppets") As mãos de meu filho ("My Son's Hands") O ataque ("The Attack") Os devaneios do general ("The reveries of the general") Novels Clarissa – 1933 Caminhos Cruzados ("Crossed Paths") – 1935 Música ao Longe ("Music From Afar") – 1936 Um Lugar ao Sol ("A Place in the Sun")– 1936 Olhai os Lírios do Campo ("Behold the Lilies of the Field")– 1938 Saga – 1940 O Resto É Silêncio| ("The Rest is Silence") – 1943 O Tempo e o Vento (The Time and the Wind"): O continente ("The Continent") – 1949 O Retrato ("The Portrait") – 1951 O Arquipélago ("The Archipelago") – 1961Noite ("Night") - 1954 (the versions published in Portugal contain also "A Sonata" ("The Sonata"), a short story written by a solitary music teacher, that sees himself transported to the past, to the year of his birth, where he falls in love for a beautiful woman)O Senhor Embaixador ("His Majesty, the Ambassador") – 1965O Prisoneiro ("The Prisoner") – 1967Incidente em Antares ("Incident in Antares") – 1971 Children's literatureA vida de Joana d'Arc – 1935As Aventuras do Avião Vermelho – 1936Os Três Porquinhos Pobres –