Júlia da Costa

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Júlia da Costa

Júlia Maria da Costa (born July 1, 1844 in Paranaguá , Brazil , † July 12, 1911 in São Francisco do Sul , Brazil) was a Brazilian poet .

Life

Júlia Maria da Costa was born in 1844 to Alexandre José da Costa and Maria Machado da Costa. With the help of the priest and writer Joaquim Gomes de Oliveira Paiva (1821–1869) from Desterro, now Florianópolis , she published two volumes of poetry: Flores dispersas - 1ª série ("Distributed flowers") and Flores dispersas - 2ª série . Under the pseudonyms Sonhadora ("dreamer"), Americana ("American") and JC, she published not only poetry but also records of contemporary fashion and social events.

In 1871, under pressure from her family, she married the rich and thirty years older Comendador Francisco da Costa Pereira, chairman of the conservative party (Partido Conservador) in a marriage of convenience. However, she loved the poet Benjamin Carvoliva , who was five years her junior , with whom she - secretly after the marriage - was in letter contact almost every day through dead mailboxes . In one of these letters, she proposed to flee together - but Carvoliva already fled from her and later became engaged to the poet Izabel Dias Bello. Disillusioned, she wrote more and more hopeless and melancholy poems, which she published in newspapers, and attended more and more festivals. As an outlet for her rebellion, she dyed her hair black (which at the time only prostitutes and artists did) and became politically active.

After the death of her husband, who hosted many receptions in her house, she found the loneliness unbearable. Because of growing paranoia , she only left the house to visit the cemetery, but planned a romantic novel and began painting. After eight years of loneliness, she died. She spent her entire life on the Ilha de São Francisco do Sul .

Her life was treated literarily in the novel Júlia by the writer Roberto Gomes , which appeared in 2008. In Curitiba a street is named after her, the Alameda Júlia da Costa. She was buried in her hometown, where the remains were rediscovered in 2009 and reburied on the grounds of the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Paranaguá (IHGP). She was considered the first female poet in what was then the province of Paraná and, in literary terms , belonged to the first generation of lyrical Brazilian romanticism . Aldine Nóbrega divides the lyrical work into the basic currents of hope, disillusion and dementia.

Works

  • Flores dispersas. Primeira série . Desterro 1867
  • Flores dispersas. Segunda série . 1868
  • Poesias completas . Edição do Centro de Letras do Paraná, Curitiba 1913
  • To século de poesia. Poetisas do Paraná . Centro Paranaense Feminino de Cultura, Curitiba 1959 (contains two previously unpublished collections of poetry Flores dispersas - 3ª série and Bouquet de violetas from 1868)
  • Poesia . Imprensa Oficial do Paraná, Curitiba 2001, ISBN 85-88190-20-6

literature

  • Afrânio Coutinho (ed.): Enciclopédia de literatura brasileira . 2nd edition, Global ed. [Ua], São Paulo 2001, Volume 1, p. 538, ISBN 85-260-0724-6
  • Rosy Pinheiro Lima: Vida de Júlia da Costa. Escola Técnica de Curitiba, Curitiba 1953.
  • Carlos da Costa Pereira: Traços da Vida da Poetisa Júlia da Costa. FCC, Florianópolis 1982.
  • Zahidé Lupinacci Muzart: Poesia - Júlia da Costa. Imprensa Oficial do Paraná, Curitiba 2001.
  • Aldine Nóbrega: Júlia Maria da Costa. Sentimentos e sensações poéticas. Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica do Paraná, Curitiba 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marcio Renato dos Santos: A invenção de uma poeta. In: Jornal Rascunho. rascunho.com.br, February 2013, accessed August 2, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  2. ^ Aldine Nóbrega: Júlia Maria da Costa. Sentimentos e sensações poéticas. Curitiba 2005, pp. 22-27.
personal data
SURNAME Costa, Júlia da
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Costa, Júlia Maria da; Sonhadora (pseudonym); Americana (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Paranaguá , Brazil
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1911
Place of death Sao Francisco do Sul , Brazil