Ferreira Gullar

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Ferreira Gullar , pseudonym for José Ribamar Ferreira (born September 10, 1930 in São Luís , Maranhão ; † December 4, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian poet , writer , art critic , translator , biographer , memoir writer and essayist . He was one of the most renowned contemporary poets in Brazil.

Life

The eldest of eight siblings suffered from the usual rigid discipline of his school in his youth and spent much time in a public library reading books and writing poetry. In 1945 he wrote an essay on “Labor Day”, but received no praise for making a number of grammatical errors. So he began to spend a lot of time studying grammar.

In 1951 he moved to Rio de Janeiro and worked for the Revista do Instituto de Aposentadoria e Pensão do Comércio . He lived long in Rio de Janeiro, a city that became the setting for many of his texts, especially in his final books.

In 1954 he married the actress Tereza Aragão († 1993), with whom he had three children.

In 1961 he was appointed director of the Cultural Foundation in Brasília . He was responsible for overseeing the construction and design of the Folklore Museum and remained in office until the end of October 1961.

Ferreira Gullar believed that literature was a means of influencing reality. He tried to capture the power and vibrations of life in poetry. His socio-political engagement led him to join the Brazilian Communist Party in 1964 . Later, in 1968, he was to be arrested along with many other intellectuals and artists such as Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil . Those were the darkest years of the dictatorship in Brazil and the poet was forced into exile from 1971 to 1977. During this time he lived in several Latin American countries, especially in Chile as well as Argentina and Peru. He returned to Brazil in 1977.

Honors

To be mentioned from a plethora of honors that he received in the course of his life: In 1950 he won the poetry prize of Jornal de Letras with his poem O Galo / The Rooster . He has received the Molière Prize , the Premio Saci and other theater awards. In 1966 he was honored for Se correr o bicho pega, se ficar o bicho come , which is considered to be a masterpiece of modern Brazilian theater.

In 2002 he received the Prince Claus Prize from the Netherlands . Also in 2002 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by nine teachers from the USA, Brazil and Portugal. In 2007 he received the Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura for his book Resmungos as the best fiction book of the year. The book, published by the Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo , brings together Gullar's “chronicles” that were published in the Journal Folha de São Paulo in 2005. In 2009, Época considered him one of the 100 most influential Brazilians.

In 2010 he received the Prémio Camões , the most important literary prize in the Portuguese-speaking area. On October 9, 2014, Gullar was elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras as the successor to Ivan Junqueira .

bibliography

In Portuguese

poetry

  • Um pouco acima do chão , 1949
  • A luta corporal , 1954
  • Poemas , 1958
  • João Boa-Morte, cabra marcado para morrer , 1962
  • Quem matou Aparecida? , 1962
  • A luta corporal e novos poemas , 1966
  • História de um valente , 1966
  • Por você por mim , 1968
  • Dentro da noite veloz , 1975
  • Poema sujo , 1976
  • Na vertigem do dia , 1980
  • Crime na flora ou Ordem e progresso , 1986
  • Barulhos , 1987
  • O formigueiro , 1991
  • Muitas vozes , 1999

Anthologies

  • Antologia poética , 1977
  • Toda poesia , 1980
  • Ferreira Gullar - Selection by Beth Brait, 1981
  • Os melhores poemas de Ferreira Gullar - Selection by Alfredo Bosi, 1983
  • Poemas escolhidos , 1989

Stories and Chronicles

  • A estranha vida banal , 1989
  • Gamação , 1996
  • Cidades inventadas , 1997
  • O menino eo arco-íris , 2001
  • Resmungos , 2007

theatre

  • Um rubi no umbigo , 1979

memories

  • Rabo de foguete - Os anos de exílio , 1998

biography

  • Nise da Silveira: uma psiquiatra rebelde , 1996

Essays

  • Teoria do nicht-objeto , 1959
  • Cultura posta em questão , 1965
  • Vanguarda e subdesenvolvimento , 1969
  • Augusto do Anjos ou Vida e morte Nordestina , 1977
  • Tentativa de compreensão: arte concreta, arte neoconcreta - Uma contribuição brasileira , 1977
  • Uma luz no chão , 1978
  • Sobre arte , 1983
  • Etapas da arte contemporânea: do cubismo à arte neoconcreta , 1985
  • Indagações de hoje , 1989
  • Argumentação contra a morte da arte , 1993
  • O Grupo Frente ea reação neoconcreta , 1998
  • Cultura posta em questão / Vanguarda e subdesenvolvimento , 2002
  • Rembrandt , 2002
  • Relâmpagos , 2003

watch TV

  • Collaboration on Araponga (telenovela) | Araponga - 1990/1991 ( Rede Globo )
  • Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos - 1998 (Rede Globo)
  • Collaboration with Irmãos Coragem - 1995 (Rede Globo)

In German translation

  • Dirty poem . Portuguese / German. Translated by Curt Meyer-Clason. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1985. ISBN 3-518-01893-0 .
  • Rotten bananas and other poems . Translated by Curt Meyer-Clason. Vervuert, Frankfurt am Main 1986. ISBN 3-921600-33-2 .
  • The green glow of the days. Poems . Portuguese / German. Translated by Curt Meyer-Clason and Inés Koebel . Piper, Munich 1991. ISBN 3-492-11034-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ferreira Gullar morre aos 86 anos no Rio . Globo.com , December 4, 2016, accessed December 4, 2016 (Portuguese).
  2. ^ Ferreira Gullar - Prince Claus Fund. In: princeclausfund.org. Accessed April 10, 2019 .
  3. ABL Elegê o poeta Ferreira Gullar para a sucessão do poeta e tradutor Ivan Junqueira. Academia Brasileira de Letras, October 9, 2014, archived from the original on November 3, 2014 ; Retrieved December 4, 2016 (Portuguese).