Lêdo Ivo

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Lêdo Ivo (born February 18, 1924 in Maceió , Alagoas , † December 23, 2012 in Seville , Spain ) was a Brazilian journalist, poet, novelist, essayist and writer.

Literary work

Ivo is one of the most influential writers of the "Generation of 1945" ("geração de '45"), the postmodern of Brazilian poetry and literature.

He first attended school in Recife and began his literary career there. In 1944 he published the acclaimed volume of poetry As imaginações , which was followed in 1945 by Ode e elegia and is seen as a turning point in the poetry of the time. The death of Mário de Andrade in 1945 marked a cut to literary Modernismo brasiliero for literary criticism , which resulted in a reorientation of Brazilian poetry, characterized by a move away from a modernist and experimental form towards a purely poetic structure. In the following two decades around twelve collections of poetry appeared, which in 1974 reappeared together under the title O sinal semafórico (The semaphorical signal).

Since 1947 he published the novels As alianças (1947, awarded the Prêmio da Fundação Graça Aranha), O caminho sem aventura (1948), O sobrinho do general (1964), Ninho de cobras (1973) and A morte, which appeared in several editions do Brasil (1984). One of his most successful works is Ninhos de Cobras ( Snake's Nest ), an allegory of the totalitarianism of the military dictatorship of the 1970s, set in the time of the Getúlio Vargas regime of the 1940s.

Lêdo Ivo also emerged as a translator, translating into Brazilian Portuguese Albrecht Goes (Das Burntopfer), Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey - The Northanger Abbey ), Maupassant , Rimbaud ( Une Saison en enfer ) and Dostojewski (Подросток - The Young Man ).

In addition to the translation of the novel Ninhos de Cobras (as Snakes' nest ) into American in 1981, his works were translated into Spanish by Ştefan Baciu . By 2012 Curt Meyer-Clason had translated around 10 poems into German.

Honors

Academia Brasileira de Letras

In 1986 Lêdo Ivo became a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras , the Brazilian Academy of Literature in Rio de Janeiro, and the fifth owner of seat No. 10 in succession to Orígenes Lessa .

Prices

Ivo has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including an honorary doctorate from the Universidade Federal de Alagoas . In 2009 he received the Cuban culture prize Premio Casa de las Américas in the Brazilian literature category for his work Requiem .

Works (selection)

In 2004 a complete edition of his poems with over 1000 pages and a selection of his best crônicas , a special Brazilian literary short form, appeared.

  • As imaginações. Pongetti, Rio de Janeiro 1944.
  • Ode e elegía. Pongetti, Rio de Janeiro 1945.
  • "O guarani" by José de Alencar . In: Manchete. Rio de Janeiro. Vol. 21, 1975, No. 1164, pp. 69-73, with illus.
  • Calabar: poesía. Ed. Record, Rio de Janeiro 1985. (Versepos)
  • Poesia completa: (1940-2004). Topbooks, Rio de Janeiro 2004, ISBN 85-7475-086-1 .
  • As melhores crônicas de Lêdo Ivo. Prefácio e notas de Gilberto Mendonça Teles. Global, São Paulo 2004.
  • Requiem. - Spanish edition: Fondo Ed. Casa de las Américas, La Habana 2009, ISBN 978-959-260-282-3 . Translator: Marta Ines Spagnuolo.
Autobiographical works
  • Confissões de um poeta. Difusão Européia do Livro, São Paulo 1979.
  • O aluno relapso. Massao Ohno, São Paulo 1991.
Translations
  • Albrecht Goes : O holocausto. Agir, Rio de Janeiro 1960. (German title: Das Brandopfer).

literature

  • Irwin Stern (Ed.): Dictionary of Brazilian literature. Greenwood Press, New York 1988, ISBN 0-313-24932-6 , p. 169.
  • Elizabeth Rennó: Aventura Poética de Lêdo Ivo. Academia Brasileira de Letras, Rio de Janeiro 1988, OCLC 20291641 .
  • Assis Brasil : A Trajetória Poética de Lêdo Ivo. Topbooks, Rio de Janeiro 2006.

Web links

Wikiquote: Lêdo Ivo  - Quotes (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brazil: Writer Lêdo Ivo died in Spain
  2. ↑ Milton de Godoy Campos: Antologia poética de geração de '45. Clube de poesia, São Paulo 1966, 1st series, pp. 11-12, 14.
  3. ^ Curt Meyer-Clason: Modernismo brasileiro and the Brazilian poetry of the present. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-910161-76-6 , introduction.
  4. ↑ Irwin Stern (Ed.): Dictionary of Brazilian literature. Greenwood Press, New York 1988, ISBN 0-313-24932-6 , pp. 257-258 (Chapter: Postmodernism in poetry )
  5. ↑ 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. 218-219.
personal data
SURNAME Ivo, Lêdo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Maceió , Alagoas
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 2012
Place of death Seville , Spain