Graciliano Ramos

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Graciliano Ramos , full name Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira (born October 27, 1892 in Quebrangulo / Alagoas in Brazil , † March 20, 1953 in Rio de Janeiro ) was an important Brazilian narrator, novelist and journalist.

Graciliano Ramos (1940)

Life

Ramo's father was a small trader who married the daughter of a rancher in arid Sertão , the arid north-east of Brazil, and became a hapless rancher himself. The drought around 1895 killed the cattle and the father opened a shop again. Ramos later used the impressions and people from his childhood again and again in literary terms. He came to literature through the example of a postal worker who wrote. In 1914 he went to Rio de Janeiro as an apprentice . In 1915 his sisters died of the plague . He married, broke off his training as an auditor and became a businessman in Palmeira dos Índios . 1928–1930 was mayor there and wrote polemical reports on the difficulties of an orderly administrative activity to the governor. He later became director of education in the state of Alagoas. As a militant communist, he was imprisoned for a year in 1936 (although he did not join the Communist Party until 1945). Then he moved to Rio as a private citizen.

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The manuscript of his first novel Caetés , written in 1926 , in which he used his experiences in Palmeira dos Índios literarily, was only known after seven years and was immediately published. In his other novels and autobiographical works, Ramos, the "author of the drought" ( Vidas sêcas , "Karges Leben", 1938) described the development of northeast Brazil. At the same time he is regarded as a representative of the psychological novel in the successor to Dostoevsky and as a forerunner of existentialism , the z. For example, in his novel Angst , which appeared while he was in prison, he portrays the suffering of the inescapable mediocrity of small-town life of small employees, their inferiority complexes and attempts at compensation. His detention experiences, Memórias de cárcere , one of three autobiographical books, were published posthumously in 1953. His style is simple, hard, often paratactic, with many inner monologues, sometimes with an agonizing excess of self-reflection. The work is a key to understanding the Brazilian Northeast and at the same time reflects the career of the author, who worked his way out of a narrow, violent and authoritarian milieu.

Works

  • Caetés , 1933
  • Sao Bernardo , 1934
  • Angústia , 1936.
    • German: fear . From the Brazilian Portuguese by Willy Keller . Library Suhrkamp 1978, 1994.
  • Vidas Secas , 1938.
  • Histórias de Alexandre , 1944
  • Infância , 1945.
  • Dois Dedos , 1945
  • Histórias Incompletas , 1946
  • Insônia , 1947
  • Histórias Verdadeiras , 1951
  • Memórias do Cárcere , 1953
  • Viagem , 1954

Films based on his works

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Graciliano Ramos: Graciliano Ramos about himself. In: Angst , German edition 1994, pp. 289–291.
  2. ^ Salvelina da Silva: Os modos do ser em Sartre, Camus e Graciliano Ramos ea alteridade readical. Dissertação, Universidade Federal de Santa Catalina, Florianópolis 2003, p. 98 online .
personal data
SURNAME Ramos, Graciliano
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ramos de Oliveira, Graciliano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian author and narrator
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Quebrangulo
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1953
Place of death Rio de Janeiro