Ciro dos Anjos

Ciro dos Anjos , actually Ciro Versiani dos Anjos (born October 5, 1906 in Montes Claros , Minas Gerais , † August 4, 1994 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian lawyer, journalist and writer.

Life

At 17 Dos Anjos went to Belo Horizonte to at the Federal University of Minas Gerais Law to study. He successfully completed his studies in 1932 and also worked as a lawyer in Belo Horizonte for some time.

Dos Anjos worked as a journalist from time to time during his studies. In 1946 he gave up his legal career and devoted himself only to writing. In his job as a journalist, over the years a small oeuvre has emerged that is valued by the public and by literary criticism alike.

With effect from April 1, 1969, the Academia Brasileira de Letras took Ciro dos Anjos as a member and assigned him the Cadeira 24 .

Nine weeks before his 88th birthday, Ciro dos Anjos died on August 4, 1994 in Rio de Janeiro, where he found his final resting place.

Works (selection)

Poetry

• Poemas coronarianos . 1964.

memoirs

• Explorações no tempo . 1952.
• A menina do sobrado . 1979.

Novels

• O amanuense Belmiro . 1937.
• Montanha . 1950.
• Abdias . 1945.

Non-fiction

• A criação literária . 1959.

literature

Essays

• António Cirurgião: "Abdias" de Cyro dos Anjos. Do amor humano ao amor divino . In: Lingua e Cultura , Vol. 4 (1974), Issue 3, pp. 230-237.
• Afonso H. Fávero: As mémorias de Cyro dos Anjos . In: Revista da ANPOLL , Vol. 2 (1996), pp. 9-25.
• Jobst Welge: Inability. The figure of the employee as a weak hero in the novel of modernity ( Italo Svevo and Cyro dos Anjos) . In: Arcadia , Vol. 47 (2012), Issue 2, 401-420, ISSN  0003-7982 .

Monographs

• Yvonne David-Peyre: Marcel Proust and "O amanuense Belmiro" from Ciro dos Anjos . In: Cahiers des Amériques Latines , 1969.
• Luiz Ferraz: Réalité et fiction. Aspects thématiques et formels de l'œuvre de Cyro dos Anjos . Dissertation, University of Caen 1988.
• Christopher C. Lund: An introduction to the novels of Cyro dos Anjos . Dissertation, University of Texas, Austin 1970.
• Vera M. Paráboli Milanesi: Cyro dos Anjos. Mémoria e história . Editoria Aerte & Ciência, São Paulo 1997, ISBN 85-86127-03-5 .
• Ana Paula Nobile: A recepção de "O amanuense Belmiro" de Cyro dos Anjos (1937) . Editorial Anablume, São Paulo 2006, ISBN 85-7419-557-X .
• Ilse Schlede: Literary self-representation in Cyro dos Anjos . Dissertation, University of Cologne 1991.
• Eneida M. de Souza (Ed.): Modernidades alternativas na América Latina. Colóquios Internacionais "A Invenção do arquivo literário 2 e passagens da Modernidade - Centennário de Cyro dos Anjos" November 2005 e setembro 2006 . Editorial UFMG, Belo Horizonte 2009, ISBN 978-85-7041-688-9 .

Web links

• Biobibliography on the website of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (Portuguese)
• Literature by and about Ciro dos Anjos in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Occasionally also Cyro dos Anjos .