Adelino Fontoura

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Adelino Fontoura

Adelino Fontoura Chaves (born March 30, 1859 in Axixá , Maranhão ; † March 2, 1884 in Lisbon ) was a Brazilian journalist , writer and poet who was an important exponent of Parnassianism (Parnasianismo) and in honor of the first seat (Cadeira ) of the Academia Brasileira de Letras .

Life

Adelino Fontoura Chaves, son of Antônio Fontoura Chaves and Francisca Dias Fontoura, worked for the satirical magazine Os Xênios after moving to Recife . After returning to Maranhão , he appeared as an actor in a play and was arrested for it. After his release from prison he went to Rio de Janeiro and worked as a journalist after an unsuccessful career as an actor. In the following period he worked for newspapers such as Folha Nova , O Combate and A Gazetinha , for which he wrote prose works in addition to some poems. In A Gazetinha he worked closely with its founder Artur Azevedo .

Together with Ferreira de Menezes, Augusto Ribeiro , Hugo Leal and João de Almeida, he wrote articles for the newspaper A Gazeta da Tarde , which, in the opinion of Múcio Leão, was “one of the most unfortunate magazines ever to be founded because its founders were in the next would die three years after the magazine first appeared ”. After A Gazeta da Tarde was bought by José do Patrocínio , he became a correspondent for the newspaper in Paris . At that time he was already seriously ill. After his illness had worsened due to the severe winter in France , he went to Lisbon to recover , where he died shortly afterwards at the age of only 24. Although he did not publish a book, he was an important exponent of Parnassianism (Parnasianismo) .

In his honor, the first seat (Cadeira) of the Academia Brasileira de Letras , founded in 1896, was named, which Luís Murat then took. He was also named after the seat 38 of the Academia Maranhense de Letras in São Luís , founded by Franklin de Oliveira . With these posthumous awards, Fontoura is considered one of the "immortals" ( Imortais ) of Brazilian literature.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adelino Fontoura. In: org.br. Academia Maranhense de Letras, 2014, accessed November 8, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Fontoura, Adelino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fontoura Chaves, Adelino (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian poet and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Axixá , Maranhão , Brazil
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1884
Place of death Lisbon