José Mauro de Vasconcelos

José Mauro de Vasconcelos (born February 26, 1920 in Rio de Janeiro , † July 24, 1984 in São Paulo ) was a Brazilian writer of the 20th century.

Life

Vasconcelos' mother was Indian, his father Portuguese. He studied medicine, law, philosophy and painting and then made a living as a teacher and nurse with the jungle inhabitants. He was also at times a fisherman and banana loader.

Work and style

Vasconcelos, one of the most widely read Brazilian authors - abroad - never achieved comparable fame in his home country. Vasconcelos is known for its simple style that leads the reader into a world of tenderness and sensitivity. So typical of the Brazilian attitude to life, he is also able to provide sad, even tragic topics and events with optimism and spice them up with humor, without ever going wrong in tone.

His successful novel O Meu Pé de Laranja Lima (1968, German under the title: When I grow up or in the new edition My Little Orange Tree ), also celebrated in Brazil, was adapted for the film in 1969 by the Brazilian filmmaker Aurélio Teixeira , but so far never implemented in the cinema. There have been three film adaptations of the book as television series, namely 1970 by TV Tupi , 1980 (remake of the previous film) of the Bandeirantes speech and finally in 1998 again by the Bandeirantes speech.

Works

(Original Portuguese titles - translations translated into German):

• Banana Brava (1942)
• Barro Blanco (1945)
  • German by Marianne Jolowicz: My brothers, the wind and the sea , novel, Paul Zsolnay Verlag & Marion von Schröder Verlag, 1972, ISBN 3-547-79332-7 .
  • as dtv paperback: Munich 1992, ISBN 3-423-11572-6 .
  • New edition as: Joaninhas Augen , Verlag Urachhaus, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-8251-7867-3 .
• Longe da Terra (1949)
• Vazante (1951)
• Arara Vermelha (1953)
  • German by Marianne Jolowicz: Ara Ara, adventure in the Brazilian jungle , Paul Zsolnay Verlag & Marion von Schröder Verlag, 1971.
  • also published as Roter Ara , Roman, Econ & List Taschenbuch Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-612-27430-9 .
• Arraia de Fogo (1955)
• Rosinha, Minha Canoa (1962)
• Doidao (1969)
• O Garanhão das Praias (1964)
• Coração de Vidro (1964)
• As Confissões de Frei Abóbora (1966)
• O Meu Pé de Laranja Lima (1968).
  • German by Marianne Jolowicz: When I grow up , Roman, Paul Zsolnay Verlag & Marion von Schröder Verlag, 1970.
  • as dtv paperback: Munich 1972, ISBN 3-423-00864-4 .
  • New edition as: My little orange tree , Urachhaus publishing house, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-8251-7673-0 .
• Rua Descalça (1969)
• O Palácio Japonês (1969)
• Farinha Órfã (1970)
• Chuva Crioula (1972)
• O Veleiro de Cristal (1973)
• Vamos Aquecer o Sol (1974)
• Kuryala, capitão e carajá (1979)
  • German by Sabine Müller-Nordhoff: The long night of the chief Kuryala , Otto Maier Ravensburg, 1992. ISBN 3-473-35121-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about José Mauro de Vasconcelos in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about José Mauro de Vasconcelos in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
• José Mauro de Vasconcelos in the Internet Movie Database (English)