Manuel Bandeira
Manuel Carneiro de Souza Bandeira Filho (born April 19, 1886 , Recife PE , † October 13, 1968 , Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian writer and poet. He is counted among the 22 generation in modern Brazilian literature .
biography
Bandeira studied architecture and engineering in São Paulo at the Escola Politécnica since 1903 . Lived in Davos before the First World War because of tuberculosis . The first publications appeared from 1914. He translated numerous poets of world literature, such as Hölderlin , Rainer Maria Rilke , Friedrich Schiller and Novalis . From 1938 to 1943 he was professor of literature at the Colégio Pedro II and in 1940 became a member of the Brazilian Academy of Literature ( Academia Brasileira de Letras ). In 1943 he was appointed Professor of Spanish-American Literature at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. In 1956 he retired.
Poetry by Bandeira
Manuel Bandeira possessed a simple and direct style, but it did not share the harshness of poets like João Cabral de Melo Neto . He chose everyday and universal subjects, which he often worked on with poetic wit, resulting in forms and ideas that academic tradition considered vulgar.
Some of his poems (like Poética in the volume Libertinagem ) are almost a manifesto of modern poetry . Bandeira's roots lie in Parnasianismo brasileiro and the second phase of the experimental Brazilian Modernismo . He was invited to the Semana de Arte Moderna , the week of modern art, in São Paulo in 1922 , but did not attend personally. Instead he had a poem ( Os Sapos , The Frogs ) recited.
Bandeira's work is characterized by a certain melancholy in which he simultaneously seeks a way to find joy in life. Terminally ill with lungs, he knew that he could pass out of life at any moment; this feeling is reflected in many parts of his work.
Honors
- Academia Brasileira de Letras
In 1940 Manuel Bandeira became a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras , the Brazilian Academy of Literature in Rio de Janeiro, and the third chair holder of seat No. 24 in succession to Luís Guimarães Filho .
Works
- 1917 - A cinza das Horas
- 1919 - Carnaval
- 1924 - Poesia (A cinza das Horas, Carnaval, Ritmo Dissoluto)
- 1930 - Libertinism
- 1936 - Estrela da Manhã
- 1940 - Poesias Completas (All previous books, with the new work Lira dos Cinquent'anos )
- 1948 - Poesias Completas (All previous books, with the new work Belo Belo )
- 1948 - Mafua do Malungo
- 1952 - Opus 10
- 1954 - Poesias (with Opus 10)
- 1963 - Estrela da tarde
Web links
- Literature by and about Manuel Bandeira in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Manuel Bandeira in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Manuel Bandeira , Bio-Bibliography of the Academia Brasileira de Letras, Portuguese
- Manuel Bandeira , biography and selection of his poems on the website portalsaofrancisco.com , Portuguese, accessed September 25, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Baciu & Kurt Marti : You are in exile - poems between revolution and Christianity . Wuppertal, Peter Hammer, 1969.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bandeira, Manuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bandeira Filho, Manuel Carneiro de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian lyric poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Recife |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 13, 1968 |
| Place of death | Rio de Janeiro |