Ariano Suassuna

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Ariano Suassuna

Ariano Vilar Suassuna (born June 16, 1927 in Paraíba , João Pessoa since 1930; † July 23, 2014 in Recife ) was a Brazilian writer and dramaturge . His work includes plays , novels and poetry .

Life

Ariano Suassuna was the son of the President of Paraíba State , João Suassuna , who was murdered by political opponents in the 1930 revolution. Ariano Suassuna attributed the murder to the environment of his father's successor, João Pessoas, who was also murdered in 1930 .

Ariano Suassuna graduated from secondary school and college in Recife , u. a. at the American Baptist College. He was noticed at an early age by his acting talent. In the 1940s, Suassuna, who was formally Calvinist but actually an agnostic , converted to Catholicism. From 1945 he studied law in Recife and founded a student theater. In 1947 he wrote his first play. From 1952 to 1956 he worked as a lawyer. In 1956 he became a professor of aesthetics at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife. 1957 to 1959 he completed a degree in philosophy at the Catholic University of Pernambuco. In 1959 he founded the Teatro Popular do Nordeste together with Hermilo Borba Filho and also revitalized the musical life and dance culture in Recife. Several samba schools often made him and his work the subject of their performances.

Representative of a literary neo-baroque

Suassuna's work is shaped by Catholicism. His theater can be seen as a representative of a Latin American literary neo-baroque , which aims to cast a spell over its listeners and readers with the method of submission to powerful mythical personifications (demons, devils, femininity, death) by not relying on the interpretation of allegories , but rather - in this not unlike the Jesuit theater - aims to trigger physical feelings and emotions.

Works (selection)

Stage plays

  • Uma mulher vestida de Sol (1947)
  • Cantam as harpas de Sião ou O desertor de Princesa (1948)
  • Os homens de barro (1949)
  • Auto de João da Cruz (1950)
  • Torturas de um coração (1951)
  • O arco desolado (1952)
  • O castigo da soberba , (1953)
  • O Rico Avarento (1954)
  • Auto da Compadecida (1955; German: The Testament of the Dog or the Game of Our Lady of Compassion , translated by Willy Keller )
  • O casamento suspeitoso (1957)
  • O santo ea porca (1957)
  • O homem da vaca eo poder da fortuna (1958)
  • A pena ea lei (1959)
  • Farsa da boa preguiça (1960)
  • A Caseira ea Catarina (1962)
  • As conchambranças de Quaderna (1987)

Novels

  • A História de amor de Fernando e Isaura (1956/1994)
  • Romance d'A Pedra do Reino eo Príncipe do Sangue do Vai-e-Volta (1971; German: The stone of the empire or the story of the prince of the blood of the go-and-come-back , translated by Georg Rudolf Lind )
  • História d'O Rei Degolado nas caatingas do sertão / Ao sol da Onça Caetana , (1976).

Poetry

  • O pasto incendiado (1945-1970)
  • Ode (1955)
  • Sonetos com mote alheio (1980)
  • Sonetos de Albano Cervonegro (1985)
  • Poemas (1999)

Awards

Web links

Commons : Ariano Suassuna  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Morre aos 87 anos o escritor Ariano Suassuna
  2. ↑ Corresponds roughly to the current office of elected governor of a Brazilian state.
  3. ^ Dania Schüürmann: Personification, Prosopopoeia, Persona. Figurative varieties of daimon as a design of the expressionless in Brazilian literature. Diss., FU Berlin, chap. VIII, p. 233 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Suassuna, Ariano
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Suassuna, Ariano Vilar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH João Pessoa
DATE OF DEATH 23rd July 2014
Place of death Recife