Alves Redol

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Alves Redol

António Alves Redol (born December 29, 1911 in Vila Franca de Xira , † November 29, 1969 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese writer and journalist. He is considered to be one of the most important representatives of Portuguese neorealism . Redol achieved his literary breakthrough in 1939 with the social documentary debut Gaibéus . His main work is the novel Barranco de Cegos , published in 1962 .

Life

António Alves Redol was born on December 29, 1911 in Vila Franca de Xira, an industrial city near the Portuguese capital Lisbon, as the son of the simple merchant António Redol da Cruz and his wife Inocência Alves. In 1927 he finished his training at a business school, worked for his father for a few months and in the following year he traveled to what was then the colony of Portugal, Angola , where he stayed until 1931. His experience in Angola was somewhat less successful, as he was unemployed there for a long time and also contracted malaria , but this should give him a different perspective on the world, which was later expressed in his literary works. Back in Portugal, he joined the Movimento de Unidade Democrática (MUD), which opposed the regime of the Estado Novo . He later joined the Communist Party .

His literary activity began in 1936 when Redol became an author of the magazine O Diabo , where he wrote chronicles and fairy tales of his home region, Ribatejo . But Redol should not be known as a journalist , but as a novelist.

In 1939 he published his first work: Gaibéus , the first neorealist novel in Portuguese literature . As Gaibéus one called in Portugal the 1920 year, the rice farmers of Beiro do Ribatejo. Redol himself does not regard Gaibéus as part of literature, but as documentation of the living conditions of the inhabitants of the Ribatejo. This requirement of being both a writer and a reporter of the real world can be seen as the main characteristic of his literary work. So it was quite appropriate for Redol to approach his field of representation by talking to the rural population of the rice fields near the Tagus to get to know their stories and experiences. After all, his grandparents also came from the rural population.

His work revealed a great interest in the social question , which he could not express openly, as the censorship and political persecution of the opposition by the António de Oliveira Salazar regime and against the supporters of the Partido Comunista Português impaired the cultural climate of Portugal. As a result, he was also taken into political detention and tortured.

His last novel Barranco de Cegos (1962) is considered his main work. He deals with the consequences of the collapse of the Portuguese economy in the financial crisis of 1891, but apparently also addresses current issues. In this new phase, in which the political and social developments have moved into the background, the focus on the social question gives way to a concentration on the characters and their psychological development. In the last years of his life he wrote several children's books that were intended by him for elementary schools and probably also went back to his experiences in Africa , where he had taught stray children the Portuguese language . However, the teachers at the time had pedagogical concerns because of its political orientation.

In 1936 Redol married Maria dos Santos Mota. The marriage resulted in their son António Mota Redol, who was born in 1943 and who later became an engineer.

António Alves Redol died on November 29, 1969 in Lisbon without experiencing the social changes for which he had worked throughout his life.

Works

Books

  • 1939: Gaibéus
  • 1941: Marés
  • 1942: Avieiros
  • 1943: Fanga
  • 1945: Os Reinegros
  • Anúncio
  • 1946: Porto Manso
  • Ciclo Portwine (consisting of the three novellas: Horizonte Cerrado (1949), Os Homens e as Sombras (1951) and Vindima de Sangue (1953))
  • 1954: Olhos de Água
  • 1958: A Barca dos Sete Lemes (published in German as The Man with the Seven Names. Translation: Andreas Klotsch, Verlag Volk und Welt , Berlin 1968.)
  • 1959: Uma Fenda na Muralha
  • 1962: Barranco de Cegos
  • A vida Magica da Sementinha
  • Constantino, Guardador de Vacas e de Sonhos

Scripts

  • 1947: Bola ao Centro (dialogues)
  • 1952: Nazaré (Director: Manuel Guimarães )
  • 1956: Vidas Sem Rumo (dialogues)
  • 1975: Avieiros

Plays

  • 1948: Forja
  • 1966 Teatro I - Forja e Maria Emília
  • 1967 Teatro II - O Destino Morreu de Repente
  • 1972 Teatro III - Fronteira Fechada

stories

  • 1940 Nasci com Passaporte de Turista
  • 1944 Espólio
  • 1946 Comboio das Seis
  • 1959 Noite Esquecida
  • 1963 Histórias Afluentes
  • 1968 Três Contos de Dentes

Children's books

  • 1956 A Vida Magica da Sementinha
  • 1962 Constantino Guardador de Vacas e de Sonhos
  • 1968 A Flor Vai Ver o Mar (in German translation as The Blue Flower as early as 1965. In: Das Magazin , issue 07/1965 published)
  • 1968 A Flor Vai Pescar Num Bote
  • 1969 Uma Flor Chamada Maria
  • 1970 Maria Flor Abre o Livro das Surpresas

Studies

  • 1938 Glória - Uma Aldeia do Ribatejo
  • 1938 Ribatejo (Em Portugal Maravilhoso)
  • 1946 Le Roman du T'age (Edição da Union Française Universitaire - Paris)
  • 1947 A França - Da Resistência à Renascença
  • 1950 Cancioneiro do Ribatejo
  • 1959 Romanceiro Geral do Povo Português

literature

  • Francisco Martins: The prostrate hero in the novels of António Alves Redol. City University of New York, New York 1978
  • J.Almeida Pavão: Alves Redol eo Neo-Realismo. Separata da revista "Ocidente. 1959
  • Alexandre Pinheiro Torres: Os Romances de Alves Redol. Moraes Editores 1979
  • Álvaro Salema: Alves Redol: A Obra eo Homem ". Arcádia 1980
  • Garcez da Silva: Alves Redol eo Grupo Neo-Realista de Vila Franca. Caminho 1990
  • Ana Paula Ferreira: Alves Redol eo Neo-Realismo Português. Caminho 1992
  • Garcez da Silva: A Experiência Africana de Alves Redol. Caminho 1993
  • Maria Graciete Besse: Alves Redol - O Espaço eo Discurso. Ulmeiro 1997
  • Vários Autores: Alves Redol - Testemunhos dos Seus Contemporâneos. Caminho 2001
  • Redacção Quidnovi, com coordenação de José Hermano Saraiva , História de Portugal, Dicionário de Personalidades , Volume XIX, Ed. QN-Edição e Conteúdos, SA 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ José Édil de Lima Alves: Erico Veríssimo provinciano e universal . Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Canoas 2006, p. 87.
  2. ↑ See the linguistic analysis in: Anabela de Oliveira Figureiredo: O Lúdico e od Didático na Obra de Alves Redol. Palavras-chave. Alves Redol, Literatura Infantil, legado escrito, lúdico, pedagógico . ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 12.1 MB) In: exedra, March 9, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.exedrajournal.com
  3. ↑ www.geneall.net - António Alves Redol
  4. ↑ www.geneall.net António Mota Redol
  5. ↑ http://www.alvesredol.com/ARedol_files/biblio_frame.htm
  6. ↑ Even if the title is identical to his book, there is here no evidence of an adapted screenplay
  7. ↑ DAS MAGAZIN - Issue 07/1965. ( Memento of February 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved October 12, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Redol, Alves
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Redol, António Alves
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Vila Franca de Xira
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1969
Place of death Lisbon