José Regio

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José Régio (born September 17, 1901 as José Maria dos Reis Pereira in Vila do Conde , † December 22, 1969 ibid) was a Portuguese writer and novelist , one of the most important Portuguese authors of the 20th century.

Life

José Régio was born in Vila do Conde in 1901 into a middle-class family of gold and silversmiths. In Porto he attended a high school as a boarding school student; Experiences from this time flowed into his novel Uma gota de sangue ( A drop of blood ). From 1919 to 1925, José Régio studied Romance languages in Coimbra . In his licentiate dissertation on As Correntes e As Individualidades na Moderna Poesia Portuguesa ( The currents and individualities in modern Portuguese poetry ), he already took up one of the topics that was to occupy him throughout his life: the tension between the self-determination of the individual and the social guidelines in which he finds himself. In 1927 he became co-editor of the magazine Presença and thus the leading head of Segundo Modernismo , the "Second Modernism" in Portugal. From 1930 to 1962, José Régio taught French and Portuguese at a high school in Portalegre .

José Régio, a heavy smoker, died of a heart attack in Vila do Conde on December 22, 1969.

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His work includes dramas , poetry , novels and essays . O Quinto Império - Ontem Como Hoje , Mon cas , O Vestido Cor de Fogo , O Príncipe com Orelhas de Burro , Benilde ou a Virgem Mãe and As Pinturas do Meu Irmão Júlio were filmed based on his original.

His first novel, Blindekuh , is also his most controversial. Between 1934 and 1962 the blind man's cow was banned, not least because he was a member of the Movimento de Unidade Democrática in opposition to the dictatorship of the Estado Novo .

Fonts (selection)

First editions

  • Poemas de Deus e Diabo ( Poems of God and the Devil ), 1925, poetry.
  • Jogo da Cabra-Cega , ( Blind Man's Cow Game ), novel, 1934.
  • As Encruzilhas de Deus ( The Crossroads of God ), 1936, poetry.
  • Antonio Botto eo amor ( Antonio Botto and Love ), 1937, monograph.
  • O Principe com orelhas de burro ( The Prince with the Donkey Ears ), 1942, children's book.
  • Benilde ou a virgem-mae ( Benilde or the virgin mother ), 1947, play.
  • El-Rei Sebastiao ( King Sebastian ), 1949, play.

Translations into German

literature

  • Luis Amaro (ed.): Ensaios críticos sobre José Régio . Edições Asa, Porto 1994. ISBN 972-41-1093-1 .
  • William H. Brow: Literary criticism in the Portuguese review "Presença" (1927-1940). An appraisal of the roles of José Regio, João Gaspar Simões, and Adolfo Casais Monteiro . Diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison 1980.
  • Eunice Cabral: A ilusão amorosa na ficção de José Régio . Vega, Lisbon 1998. ISBN 972-699-595-7 .
  • José Maria da Silva Couto (ed.): In memoriam de José Régio . Brasília Editora, Porto 1970.
  • Duarte Faria: Metamorfoses do fantástico na obra de José Régio . Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris 1977.
  • Eugénio Lisboa: José Régio. A obra eo homem . Arcádia, Lisbon 1976.
  • Eugénio Lisboa: José Régio. Uma literatura viva . Instituto de Cultura Portuguesa, Lisbon, 2nd edition 1978. ISBN 972-566-176-1 .
  • Eugénio Lisboa: O essencial sobre José Régio . Imprensa Nacional / Casa da Moeda, Lisbon 2001. ISBN 972-27-1065-6 .
  • Isabel Cadete Novais: José Régio. Itinerário fotobiográfico . Imprensa Nacional / Casa da Moeda, Lisbon 2002. ISBN 972-27-1133-4 .
  • Alvaro Ribeiro: A literatura de José Régio . Sociedade de expansão cultural, Lisbon 1969.
  • Helmut Siepmann: The Portuguese poetry of Segundo Modernismo . Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1977 (= Analecta Romanica , vol. 39).
  • António Ventura: José Régio ea política . Livros Horizonte, Lisbon, 2nd edition 2003. ISBN 972-24-1203-5 .

Footnotes

  1. ^ Helmut Siepmann: The Portuguese poetry of Segundo Modernismo . Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1977. p. 3.
  2. ^ IMDb: José Régio

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personal data
SURNAME Regio, José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reis Pereira, José Maria dos (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese writer and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Vila do Conde
DATE OF DEATH 22nd December 1969
Place of death Vila do Conde