Breno Accioly

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Breno Rocha Accioly (born March 22, 1921 in Santana do Ipanema , Alagoas , † March 13, 1966 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian doctor and writer .

Life

Breno Accioly, also called Breno Acioli in the new orthography , was the son of the judge Manuel Xavier Accioly and Maria de Lourdes Rocha Accioly. He grew up with his sister in a wealthy family and spent his childhood in the small town of Santana do Ipanema, in the middle of the Sertão in northeastern Brazil. On his grandmother's side, he was related to the former sertanist and city founder of Águas Belas João Rodrigues Cardoso, who first settled the area around 1700. In 1930 the family moved to the capital Alagoas, about 130 km away, to Maceió , where he spent his youth. Both places were formative for him because it was here that he found the people sketched later in his stories. Accioly was considered eccentric and alien to his environment.

The literary scholar Maria Cristina Batalha assigns the anthology Os cata-ventos in her overview of Brazilian fantastic literature to the modern fantastic-cruel and absurd-existential narratives.

Accioly died at the age of 44 in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro. His doctor and friend Hélio Cabral stated that the cause of death was over-medication in the fight against schizophrenia.

Awards

His main work, which stands out for scenes of madness and violence and a unique style, is João Urso . It established its reputation as a narrator and was awarded a prize from the Academia Brasileira de Letras and the Prêmio Graça Aranha (Fundação Graça Aranha) in 1944. Accioly was the namesake of the municipal public library in Santana do Ipanema (Biblioteca Breno Accioly), in São Paulo he was the namesake of Rua Breno Accioly.

Works

  • João Urso. Prefácio de José Lins do Rêgo. 1944. (Contains 10 stories. 2nd edition: 1953; 3rd, expanded edition by Ed. Civilização Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro 1963).
  • Cogumelos. Contos. Editôra A Noite, Rio de Janeiro 1949. (9 stories).
  • Maria Pudim. Contos. J. Olympio, Rio de Janeiro 1955. (24 stories; cover: Poty Lazzarotto ).
  • Dunas. Romance. O Cruzeiro, Rio de Janeiro 1955. (novel).
  • Os cata-ventos. Contos. J. Olympio, Rio de Janeiro 1962. (30 stories).
Collections
  • Os melhores contos. Global, São Paulo 1984. (Selection of the best short stories by Ricardo Ramos).
  • Onze contos inéditos. EDICULTE, Maceió 1989. (11 unpublished stories).
Complete edition
  • Obras reunidas. Escrituras, São Paulo 1999, ISBN 85-86303-54-2 . (Also contains articles on his work by Gilberto Freyre, José Lins do Rego, José Paulo Paes, Octávio de Faria, Adonias Filho, reviews from his fellow writers Sérgio Milliet, Mário de Andrade, Vinícius de Moraes and others, images).

With the exception of two short stories, none of his works have been translated into German:

  • Two funerals. Translated by Curt Meyer-Clason . In: The Heron and Other Brazilian Tales. Erdmann, Herrenalb / Black Forest 1967 pp. 257–260. From Isabela , posthumous short stories.
  • Farewell. From the Brazilian Portuguese by Maria Paula Palma Caetano. In: LOG. Vienna Volume 12, 1989, Issue 44 (without page numbers).

literature

  • Edilma Acioli Bomfim: Razão mutilada. Ficção e loucura em Breno Accioly. EDUFAL, Maceió 2005, ISBN 85-7177-217-7 . ( limited preview in google book search) (translation of title: Mutilated Reason. Fiction and Madness by Breno Accioly).
  • Edilma Acioli Bomfim: Breno Accioly. Memória Cultural de Alagoas. In: Gazeta de Alagoas of September 22, 2000.
  • Edilma Acioli Bomfim: Utopias em José Saramago e Breno Acioly. In: XVIII Entontro de Professores Brasileiros de Literatura Portuguesa. Santa Maris, RS 2001.
  • Heliônia Ceres: Breno Accioly. Vida e Obra. DAC / SENEC, Maceió 1984. (Série Difusão de Alagoanas Ilustres).
  • Silvio Nascimento Melo: O tempo do esquecimento. In: www.maltanet.com.br of November 18, 2007 ( online , Portuguese). In memory of the 22nd anniversary of death.
  • Lelo Macena: O homen do conto. In: Gazeta de Alagoas of June 12, 2005 ( online , Portuguese).
  • César Aira: Diccionario de Autores Latinoamericanos. Empecé, Buenos Aires 2001. (Lexicon entry).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lelo Macena: O homen do conto. In: Gazeta de Alagoas, June 12, 2005 (Brazilian Portuguese, accessed August 25, 2019).
  2. ^ Maria Cristina Batalha: A literatura fantástica no Brasil: Alguns marco referenciais. In: Pelas veredas do fantástico, do mítico e do maravilhoso. Cultura Acadêmica, São Paulo 2013, ISBN 978-85-7983-445-5 , pp. 17–60, here pp. 41 and 47.
  3. ↑ Lelo Macena: Maldito sim, mas com Prestigio literário. In: Gazeta de Alagoas, June 12, 2005 (Brazilian Portuguese, accessed August 25, 2019).
  4. ↑ Klaus Küpper: Bibliography of Brazilian literature. Prose, poetry, essay and drama in German translation. Küpper, Cologne / Ferrer de Mesquita, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-939455-09-7 , p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Accioly, Breno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Accioly, Breno Rocha (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Santana do Ipanema , Alagoas
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1966
Place of death Rio de Janeiro