Camilo Castelo Branco

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Camilo Castelo Branco, engraving by Francisco Pastor .

Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo Branco , since 1885 also Visconde de Correia Botelho (born March 16, 1825 in Lisbon , † June 1, 1890 in São Miguel de Silk ) was a Portuguese writer , novelist , critic , poet and translator.

Life

Castelo Branco was born in Lisbon, in the Bairro Alto district. His father, Manuel Joaquim Botelho Castelo Branco, was married, but Camilo, like another brother, came from the father's extramarital relationship with Jacinta Rosa do Espírito Santo Ferreira. In 1829 the father adopted Camilo "as the son of an unknown mother". The birth mother died when he was one year old. His father died nine years later, and Camilo was raised first by an aunt and later by an older half-sister in the Vila Real district , in Portugal's north-eastern region of Trás-os-Montes . From 1839 he received an education from two padres of this province, especially in literature. In his unsteady life he moved to Vila Real , Lisbon and even lived in Friume for some time . At the age of 16 he married Joaquina Perreira. Their daughter died at the age of 5. He enrolled as a medical student first in Porto , then in Coimbra , but could not get a degree because he missed too many lectures. The second daughter came from a brief love affair with a young woman, for which he even had to go to prison for a few days. Back in Porto, he began to work seriously as a writer and wrote his first poems and novels.

In 1885 he was even ennobled and received the title of Visconde (Count) de Correia Botelho. On June 1, 1890, he committed suicide with a pistol and a shot in the head after he was unable to cope with the threat of blindness and his son's mental illness.

Camilo Castelo Branco is the most prolific writer in Portugal in the 19th century, having left more than 200 works and also one of the most critical, criticizing everything and everyone in his work. His work The Doom of Love was translated into German in 1988.

Series The Secrets of Lisbon

In 2010, the 6-part series The Secrets of Lisbon was shot in Portugal , which was made into a film based on stories by Camilo Castelo Branco, which he wrote in 1854 under the title Os misterios de Lisboa . The director was the Chilean director Raúl Ruiz .

arte showed this series in May 2011 in German synchronization . The series was an example of Portuguese cinema thanks to its strong images, outstanding actors, and faithful backdrops and costumes . Branco's work thus became known to a broad German-speaking audience. A funny side issue of the film is that the namesakes Paulo Branco as the producer and Luís de Freitas Branco as the composer . In terms of content, the story tells various entanglements of the Lisbon nobility at the beginning of the 19th century and the time of the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula . The main character is a young nobleman in search of his origins and identity. The characters crossing it each have their own dark stories to tell from their past. The series shows much of Castelo Branco's psychological work and gives an insight into the world of intrigue and other wickedness. The series belongs to the genre of so-called “ narrative cinema ”, which is so typical of Portugal .

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His most famous works include:

  • Mistérios de Lisboa (Portuguese), 1854
  • Amor de Perdição (Portuguese) (German see above)
  • Memorias d'uma familia (Portuguese)
  • O Arrependimento (Portuguese)
  • Folhas cahidas, apanhadas na lama por um antigo juiz das almas de Campanhan (Portuguese)
  • A Gratidão (Portuguese)
  • Lagrimas Abençoadas (Portuguese)
  • Luiz de Camões: notas biograficas
  • Prefacio da setima edição do Camões de Garrett (Portuguese)
  • Noites de insomnia, offerecidas a quem not póde dormir. Nº1 (de 12) (Portuguese)
  • Noites de insomnia, offerecidas a quem not póde dormir. Nº2 (de 12) (Portuguese)
  • Noites de insomnia, offerecidas a quem not póde dormir. Nº3 (of 12) (Portuguese)
  • Novelas do Minho (Portuguese)
  • A Queda d'um Anjo
  • Romance (Portuguese)
  • Volley, Rei!
  • Poesia de Camillo Castello Branco (Portuguese)
  • Scenas Contemporaneas (Portuguese)
  • A senhora Rattazzi (Portuguese)
  • Suicida (Portuguese)
  • O vinho do Porto: processo de uma bestialidade ingleza
  • exposição a Thomaz Ribeiro (Portuguese)
  • O cego de landim (Portuguese)

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personal data
SURNAME Castelo Branco, Camilo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castelo Branco, Camilo Ferreira Botelho (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese writer, novelist, critic, poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1890
Place of death Sao Miguel de Silk