Alfredo Bosi

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Alfredo Bosi (born August 26, 1936 in São Paulo ; † April 7, 2021 there ) was a Brazilian university professor , literary scholar and critic .

Life

Alfredo Bosi, of Italian descent, graduated from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) in neo-Latin literature and, from 1960, spent two years in Florence , Italy , on the basis of a scholarship abroad . After his return he taught Italian literature at the USP for 10 years .

In 1964 he received his doctorate with the font A Narrativa de Pirandello and defended his teaching license six years later with a habilitation thesis on Giacomo Leopardi with the title Mito e Poesia em Leopardi . During this time his interest in Brazilian literature increased , which was reflected in the work O pré-modernismo in 1966 and in 1970 in História concisa da literatura brasileira (Brief History of Brazilian Literature). From 1972 he switched to Brazilian literature at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas at the Universidade de São Paulo.

Initially Vice Director of the Instituto de Estudos Avançados of the USP from 1987 to 1997, he then became its director until 2001. In addition, he took on a variety of positions in university and cultural committees and as an advisory board member in magazines. From 1989 he was editor of the journal Estudos avançados (Advanced Studies), in which numerous of his essays have appeared.

Several of his works appeared in large editions, including the História concisa da literatura brasileira in 2010 the 45th edition, his multiple award-winning O ser eo tempo da poesia (The Being and the Tempo of Poetry) was published in 2010 in the 8th edition. In addition to these monographs, he published numerous essays in humanities journals.

Alfredo Bosi was married to the social psychologist, writer and professor at the USP's Psychological Institute Ecléa Bosi. The marriage resulted in two children: the son José Alfredo Bosi, professor of economics, and the daughter Viviana Bosi, professor of literary theory at the USP.

None of his works were translated into German during his lifetime.

Bosi died in São Paulo in April 2021 at the age of 84 from complications from COVID-19 .

Honors

  • 1977 “Melhor Ensaio” of the “Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte” for his work O Ser o Tempo da Poesia
  • 1992 “Melhor Ensaio” for his work Dialética da Colonização
  • 1992 “Homem de Idéias”, awarded by the Jornal do Brasil
  • 1993 Prêmio Jabuti

Alfredo Bosi was admitted to the Academia Brasileira de Letras , the Brazilian Academy of Literature in Rio de Janeiro, on March 20, 2003 . He succeeded Lucas Moreira Neves as the seventh owner of seat number 12, named after França Júnior .

Works

A comprehensive bibliography can be found on the website of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.

  • O pré-modernismo. Editora Cultrix, São Paulo 1966. (5th edition 1979). ( A literatura brasileira. 5).
  • História concisa da literatura brasileira. Editora Cultrix, São Paulo 1970. (45th edition: 2010)
    • Spanish edition: Historia concisa de la literatura brasileña. Fondo de Cultura Económica, México 1983.
  • O conto brasileiro contemporâneo. Editora Cultrix, São Paulo 1975. (17th edition: 2004).
  • As letras na Primeira República em O Brasil republicano. DIFEL, São Paulo 1977.
  • O ser eo tempo da poesia. Companhia das Letras / Cultrix, São Paulo 1977. (8th edition 2010, ISBN 85-359-0019-5 ).
  • Universidade. Panorama e perspectivas. Konrad Adenauer Foundation , São Paulo 2000, ISBN 85-7504-002-2 .
  • Reflexões sobre a arte. Editora Ática, São Paulo 1985. (7th edition: 2002).
  • Céu, inferno. Ensaios de crítica literária e ideológica. Editora Atica, São Paulo 1988.
  • Dialética da colonização. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 1992, ISBN 85-7164-276-1 . (4th edition: 2001).
    • French edition: Culture Brésilienne. Une Dialectique de la Colonization. L'Harmattan, Paris 2000.
    • Spanish edition: Cultura brasileira. Una dialéctica de la clonización. Ed. Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca 2005, ISBN 84-7800-494-7 .
  • O tempo e os tempos em Tempo e história. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 1992.
  • Leitura de poesia. Editora Atica, São Paulo 1996, ISBN 85-08-06121-8 .
  • Machado de Assis. O enigma do olhar. Editora Atica, São Paulo 1999, ISBN 85-08-07273-2 . (4th edition: 2007).
  • Literatura e resistência. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2002, ISBN 85-359-0283-X .
  • Brás Cubas em três versões. Estudos machadianos. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2006, ISBN 85-359-0856-0 .
  • Ideologia e Contraidelogia. Temas e variações. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2010, ISBN 978-85-359-1630-0 .
  • Entre a literatura ea história. Editora 34 , São Paulo 2013, ISBN 978-85-7326-532-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Morre Alfredo Bosi, um dos maiores críticos literários do Brasil, de Covid, aos 84 anos. April 7, 2021, accessed April 7, 2021 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ Bibliografia , accessed July 6, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Bosi, Alfredo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian university professor, literary scholar and critic
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH São Paulo