José Maria Ferreira de Castro

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José Maria Ferreira de Castro (born May 24, 1898 in Oliveira de Azeméis , † June 29, 1974 in Porto ) was a Portuguese writer and journalist who spent part of his youth in Brazil. He mainly wrote about the living conditions of poor and disenfranchised people whom he had got to know firsthand. He is considered a forerunner of Portuguese neorealism . With other observers, Kindler's New Literature Lexicon emphasizes that de Castro's language - into which he often integrates the popular colloquial language of Brazil and Portugal - is "completely unpretentious" despite its poetry, and always calm despite its "deepest sympathy". His most successful novel, the rubber tappers from 1930, has been translated into 15 languages.

Bust for the author of “Die Kautschukzapfer” in Manaus , in the Brazilian Amazon

Life

De Castro's youth are marked by poverty. The father dies early. The son came to Brazil at the age of 12 (1910). But the hopes of the many emigrants at the time are deceptive; de Castro struggled as a day laborer through the country or - from 1912 to 1914 - as a rubber tappers through the rainforest. After all, these experiences later brought him a literary world success. Until 1919 he worked as a journalist in the northern Brazilian port city of Belém . After returning to Europe, de Castro studied in Lisbon , first becoming editor of the daily O Século , then director of the weekly O Diabo . Now he can travel more often. In 1926 he becomes president of the journalists' association. His breakthrough as a narrator came in 1928 with his novel The Emigrants . Soon afterwards, de Castro was one of Salazar's well-known opponents . In 1938 he married the painter Helen Muriel. In 1962 he becomes president of the Writers' Union. De Castro dies (1974) after a stroke. A museum is set up in the house where he was born.

Works

  • Criminoso por Ambição , 1916
  • Alma Lusitana , 1916
  • Rugas Sociais , 1917
  • Mas ... , 1921
  • Carne Faminta , 1922
  • O Êxito Fácil , 1923
  • Sangue Negro , 1923
  • A Boca da Esfinge , 1924
  • A metamorfosis , 1924
  • A Morte Redimida , 1925
  • Sendas de Lirismo e de Amor , 1925
  • A Epopeia do Trabalho , 1926
  • A Peregrina do Mundo Novo , 1926
  • O Drama da Sombra , 1926
  • A Casa dos Móveis Dourados , 1926
  • O voo nas Trevas , 1927
  • Emigrantes , Roman, 1928, German emigrants , Vienna 1953
  • A Selva , Roman, 1930, German Die Kautschukzapfer , Hamburg 1933, Düsseldorf 1953
  • Eternidade , 1933
  • Terra Fria , Roman, 1934, German Karge Erde , Bremen 1955, Frankfurt / Main 1955
  • Sim, uma Dúvida Basta , 1936, published in 1994
  • O Intervalo , 1936, published 1974
  • Pequenos Mundos, Velhas Civilizações , 1937
  • A Volta ao Mundo , 1940
  • A Tempestade , 1940
  • A Lã ea Neve , Roman, 1947, German wool and snow , Bremen 1954
  • A Curva na Estrada , 1950
  • A Missão , 1954
  • As Maravilhas Artísticas do Mundo , Volume I, 1959
  • As Maravilhas Artísticas do Mundo , Volume II, 1963
  • O Instinto Supremo , 1968
  • Os Fragmentos , 1974

literature

  • Alexandre Cabral: Ferreira de Castro, o seu drama ea sua obra , Lisbon 1940
  • FJ Pereira: Ferreira de Castro. Ficcionista , in: Estudos 33, 1955, No. 342, pages 586-605
  • J. Brasil: Ferreira de Castro , Lisbon 1961
  • Livro do cinquentenário de vida lieterária de Ferreira de Castro 1916-1966 , Lisbon 1967
  • John C. Gillespie: O conceito da fraternidade na obra de Ferreira de Castro , in: Ocidente 74, 1968, pp. 169-173
  • Antonio José Saraiva: Breve hª de la literatura portuguesa , Istmo 1971
  • Álvaro Salema (Ed.): Ferreira de Castro. A sua vida. A sua personalidade. A sua obra , Lisbon 1974 (with bibliography)
  • In memorian de Ferreira de Castro , Cascais 1976
  • Jose Neves Ornelas: The Fiction of Ferreira de Castro , New York 1976
  • MB Emery: José Maria Ferreira de Castro et le Brésil , Aix-en-Provence 1981
  • Wolf Lustig: Ferreira de Casto as a contemporary of neorealism: A Lãea Neve , in: Iberoromania , Volume 1988, Issue 27–28, Pages 114–127
  • A. Bessa-Luís: "Ferreira de Castro", in: Contemplación cariñosa de la angustia. Cuatro.ediciones 2004

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edition Munich 1988
  2. ^ Socrates , accessed April 8, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Castro, José Maria Ferreira de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Oliveira de Azeméis
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1974
Place of death postage