Ignácio de Loyola Brandão

Ignácio de Loyola Brandão (born July 31, 1936 in Araraquara , state of São Paulo ) is a Brazilian writer and journalist .

Life

Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, son of a railroad worker, began writing for the local press when he was seventeen. In 1956 he settled in São Paulo as a journalist and film critic. Loyola Brandão was an editor and contributor to various newspapers and magazines ( Última Hora , Cláudia ). 1981/82 he lived in Berlin as a guest of the Berlin artist program of the DAAD . In 1982 he was a guest of the West Berlin Horizontefestival ( Horizonte - Festival of World Cultures : No. 2, 1982). Since 1990 he has been editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine in Brazil. Loyola Brandão writes regularly for the daily newspaper O Estado de São Paulo .

In 1965 the first volume of stories appeared ( Depois do sol ), in 1968 the first novel ( Bebel que a cidade comeu ). The dominant theme of Loyola Brandão's works is life and survival in the Brazilian megacity São Paulo, where the most modern life meets underdevelopment, primitiveness and illiteracy. Loyola Brandão became internationally known with the novel Null (Suhrkamp 1979, German by Curt Meyer-Clason ), which was initially rejected by four publishers in Brazil and then published in Italy (1974 ), which is openly directed against the military dictatorship. It tells the story of José, a former law student who hopes to find the meaning of life in the big city. Despite doing odd jobs (pied piper, agent) and a marriage, his hatred of the state and society is growing. As a criminal, José is finally arrested and tortured. Hardly any other work in recent Brazilian literature captures the chaos of the big city linguistically, in terms of narrative technology and also in terms of its graphic design. Published in Brazil in 1975, the second edition of the novel was banned by the Brazilian censors for alleged “violation of morals and good manners” and was not released again until 1979.

In 1981 the author's best-selling book was published, the novel Não Verás País Nenhum ( No country like this , German 1986 by Ray-Güde Mertin ). Of Loyola Brandão's other works, only excerpts from the Berlin report O verde violentou o muro ( Oh-yes-yes-yes ) have been translated into German in 1984, and Zero in 1979 . Romance pré-historico ( zero. Prehistoric novel ).

He is a member (seat 37) of the Academia Paulista de Letras in São Paulo and since 2019 a member (seat 11) of the Academia Brasileira de Letras in Rio de Janeiro.

Works

German translations:

Zero. Prehistoric novel , Frankfurt / Main, 1979, ISBN 3-518-03556-8 .
No country like this , Frankfurt / Main, 1986, ISBN 3-518-11236-8 .
Oh-yes-yes-yes. Fragments, views, hallucinations, records . From the Brazilian by Henry Thorau, Berlin, 1983, ISBN 3-920392-83-3 .

stories

Depois do sol (1965)
Pega Ele, Silêncio (1965)
Cadeiras proibidas (1976)
Obscenidades para uma dona de casa (1981)
Cabeças de segunda-feira (1983)
O homem do furo na mão (1987)
O homem que odiava segunda-feira (1999)

Novels

Bebel que a Cidade Comeu (1968)
Zero. Romance pré-historico (1974)
Dentes ao Sol (1976)
Não Verás País Nenhum (1981)
O Beijo Não Vem da Boca (1985)
O Ganhador (1987)
O Anjo do Adeus (1995)
O Anônimo Célebre: Reality Romance (2002)
A Altura ea Largura do Nada (2006)

Books for children and young readers

Cães danados (1977), revised as: O menino que haben teve medo do medo (1995)
O homem que espalhou o deserto (1989)
O segredo da nuvem (2006)
O Menino que Vendia Palavras (2008)

Travel reports

Cuba de Fidel: viagem à ilha proibida (1978)
O verde violentou o muro (1984)

Biographies

Fleming, descobridor da penicilina (1973)
Edison, o inventor da lâmpada (1973)
Ignácio de Loyola, fundador da Companhia de Jesus (1974)

Autobiographical works

Veia bailarina (1997)
O Primeiro Emprego: uma breve visão (2011)

Honourings and prices

1976: Prêmio Melhor Ficção of the Fundação Cultural do Distrito Federal for Zero .
2000: Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura (“Melhor Livro de Contos”) for the volume of short stories O homem que odiava a segunda-feira .
2016: Prêmio Machado de Assis of the Academia Brasileira de Letras for his life's work as a writer.

literature

Claudio Armbruster: "Ignácio de Loyola Brandão", in: Dieter Reichardt (ed.): Author Lexicon Latin America , Frankfurt / Main, pp. 176–177, ISBN 978-3-518-40485-0 .

Marga Graf: "Apocalyptic visions in Ignácio de Loyola Brandão's Roman Nao verás país nenhum : literary language of the decay of human society, in: files of the 1st joint colloquium of German-language Lusitan and Catalan studies, lusitanistic part, Frankfurt / Main, 1991, p. 81 -98.

Dieter Ingenschay: "Rio de Janeiro - São Paulo - Berlin. Literary metropolitan experience and intercultural difference with Ignácio de Loyola Brandão and other Brazilian authors", in: Diversity and Heterogeneity , Frankfurt / Main, 2004, pp. 125–149 ( ISBN 3- 927884-69-3 ).

Thomas Johnen: "The eschatological scenario of environmental destruction in Não verás país nenhum by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão: Notes on its anchoring in the everyday knowledge of readers, in: Cornelia Klettke / Georg Maag (eds.): Reflexes of an environmental and climate awareness in fictional texts der Romania , Berlin, 2010, pp. 329–347 ( ISBN 978-3-86596-279-9 ).

Christoph Schamm: "'Num clima de ridícula e subdesenvolvida ficção científica ?: Ignácio de Loyola Brandão's novel Não verás país nenhum as a prognosis of an impending climate catastrophe", in: Cornelia Klettke / Georg Maag (eds.): Reflections of an environmental and climate consciousness in fictional texts from Romania , Berlin, 2010, pp. 315–327 ( ISBN 978-3-86596-279-9 ).

Web links

Literature by and about Ignácio de Loyola Brandão in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Ignácio de Loyola Brandão in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
Author portrait Ignácio de Loyola Brandão by Ray-Güde Mertin
Biography Loyola Brandãos at releituras.com (portuguese)

supporting documents

↑ Jörg Drews : Horizonte Festival: Latin America in Berlin: Foreign literary continent. In: Zeit Online . June 11, 1982. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
^ Curt Meyer-Clason: Afterword . In: zero. Prehistoric novel , Frankfurt / Main 1982, p. 381.
↑ Klaus Küpper: Bibliography of Brazilian literature. Prose, poetry, essay and drama in German translation. Küpper, Cologne / Ferrer de Mesquita, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-939455-09-7 , pp. 98-100.
^ Ignácio de Loyola Brandão é eleito para a Academia Brasileira de Letras. In: globo.com. G1, accessed September 24, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
^ Ignácio de Loyola Brandão vence prêmio da ABL por conjunto da obra. In: Folha de S. Paulo . July 7, 2016, Retrieved December 5, 2016 (Portuguese).

personal data
SURNAME	Brandão, Ignácio de Loyola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Brazilian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 31, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Araraquara , State of São Paulo

[1] Jörg Drews : Horizonte Festival: Latin America in Berlin: Foreign literary continent. In: Zeit Online . June 11, 1982. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .

[2] Curt Meyer-Clason: Afterword . In: zero. Prehistoric novel , Frankfurt / Main 1982, p. 381.

[3] Klaus Küpper: Bibliography of Brazilian literature. Prose, poetry, essay and drama in German translation. Küpper, Cologne / Ferrer de Mesquita, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-939455-09-7 , pp. 98-100.

[4] Ignácio de Loyola Brandão é eleito para a Academia Brasileira de Letras. In: globo.com. G1, accessed September 24, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).

[5] Ignácio de Loyola Brandão vence prêmio da ABL por conjunto da obra. In: Folha de S. Paulo . July 7, 2016, Retrieved December 5, 2016 (Portuguese).