Mario Quintana
Mario de Miranda Quintana (born July 30, 1906 in Alegrete , Brazil , † May 5, 1994 in Porto Alegre , Brazil) was a Brazilian poet , writer , translator and journalist .
Quintana received his first school education in his hometown of Alegrete. In 1919 he moved to Porto Alegre, where he attended military school and published his first literary works. He later worked at the Globo publishing house and then in his father's pharmacy. Known for his style, which is characterized by irony , profundity and perfection, Mario Quintana is also known as the "poet of simple things".
For a long time he worked as a journalist for the Correio do Povo newspaper , where he wrote the Saturday column for the cultural page. He has also translated more than 130 works of world literature into Portuguese , including In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust , Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and Parole e Sangue by Giovanni Papini .
In 1940 he published his first volume of poetry, A Rua dos Cataventos ( The Road of the Windmills ), with which his writing career began. In 1960 the poet received the Fernando Chinaglia Prize for the best book of the year from the União Brasileira de Escritores ( Brazilian Association of Writers ). In 1966 - on the occasion of his 60th birthday - Quintana's collection of poems ( Antologia Poética ) was published, comprising 60 poems. In the same year Manuel Bandeira performed his poem "Quintanares", dedicated to Quintana, at the Academia Brasileira de Letras ( Brazilian Academy of Literature ). In 1976, at the age of 70, he was awarded the "Negrinho do Pastoreio" medal by the state of Rio Grande do Sul . He received the Machado de Assis Prize from the Academia Brasileira de Letras in 1980 for his complete works.
Private life
Mario Quintana was neither married nor had children. He was a loner and lived in hotels for a long time. From 1968 to 1980 he lived in the Hotel Majestic in the old town of Porto Alegres. However, he had to leave this when he was fired from the newspaper Correio do Povo due to financial difficulties and could no longer pay for his room. During this time, Paulo Roberto Falcão, a sports commentator and former soccer player for the Brazilian national team , made a room available to him in the Hotel Royal. Quintana said to a friend who found the room too small, “I live in myself. It is not a problem that the room is small. That's a good thing because I have less space to lose my things ”. The same friend found him an apartment in the Hotel Porto Alegre Residence, where the poet would live from the age of eighty until his death. He immediately loved his new home: “There is even a kitchen!”. The building of the Hotel Majestic been considered the architectural landmark of Porto Alegre than by the city under 1,982 listed building was made. In 1983, the state of Rio Grande do Sul acquired it at the request of local admirers of the poet and made it a cultural center called Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana . The poet's room was faithfully recreated there with the help of the great niece and long-time secretary Elena Quintana. Quintana died in Porto Alegre in 1994, where he was buried in the São Miguel e Alma cemetery. On the occasion of his hundredth birthday, numerous celebrations were held in Rio Grande do Sul in 2006 in honor of the poet.
Relationship with the Academia Brasileira de Letras
The poet tried three times to be accepted into the Academia Brasileira de Letras, but he did not get the twenty votes required for acceptance. When he got the offer to run for the fourth time, he declined, although he was promised to be elected unanimously this time.
“It [membership in the Academia] just hampers creativity. They live with the pressure to vote and give speeches for celebrities. It is a pity that the establishment founded by Machado de Assis is so politicized today. There are only politicians. "
“If Mario Quintana were in the Academia Brasileira de Letras, it wouldn't change his life or his work. The fact that he is not a member is a loss for the academy only. "
“Most of the supporters of this great writer are outraged that he was not one of the ABL's immortals. In my opinion, honorary degrees are nothing more than honorary degrees. I believe that he received the greatest recognition, namely the appreciation and love of the Brazilian people for his poems and for the great poet and person he was. "
Translation activity
Among the various books the poet has translated for Globo (Porto Alegre) are some volumes of the bestseller In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (perhaps his best-known translation), and works by Honoré de Balzac , Voltaire , Virginia Woolf , Graham Greene , Giovanni Papini and Charles Morgan . Furthermore, it can be assumed that Quintana translated countless love stories and detective novels without having received any recognition for them - a common practice at the time (between 1934 and 1955).
Honors
Manuel Bandeira dedicated a poem to Quintana which reads:
- Meu Quintana, os teus cantares
- Não são, Quintana, cantares.
- São, Quintana, quintanares.
- Quinta-essência de cantares ...
- Insólitos, singulares ...
- Cantares? Não! Quintanares!
The troubadour Jayme Caetano Braun dedicated the “Payada a Mario Quintana” to the poet. Here is an excerpt from the poem:
- Entre os bem-aventurados
- Dos quais fala o evangelho,
- Eu vejo no mundo velho
- Os poetas predestinados,
- Eles que foram tocados
- Pela graça soberana,
- Mas a verdade pampeana
- Desta minh'alma irrequieta,
- É que poeta nasce poeta
- E poeta é o Mario Quintana!
There are several schools in Rio Grande do Sul that bear the poet's name. A district in Porto Alegre is named after him.
In 1981 he was named Author of the Year and received the Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura ( Jabuti Literature Prize ).
Works
Volumes of poetry
- A Rua dos Cataventos Porto Alegre, Editora do Globo, 1940
- Canções - Porto Alegre, Editora do Globo, 1946
- Sapato Florido Porto Alegre, Editora do Globo, 1948
- O Aprendiz de Feiticeiro - Porto Alegre, Editora Fronteira, 1950
- Espelho Mágico - Porto Alegre, Editora do Globo, 1951
- Inéditos e Esparsos - Alegrete, Cadernos do Extremo Sul, 1953
- Poesias - Porto Alegre, Editora do Globo, 1962
- Caderno H Porto Alegre, Editora do Globo, 1973
- Apontamentos de História Sobrenatural - Porto Alegre, Editora do Globo / Instituto Estadual do Livro, 1976
- Quintanares - Porto Alegre, Editora do Globo, 1976
- A Vaca eo Hipogrifo - Porto Alegre, Garatuja, 1977
- Esconderijos do Tempo - Porto Alegre, L&PM, 1980
- Baú de Espantos - Porto Alegre - Editora do Globo, 1986
- Preparativos de Viagem - Rio de Janeiro - Editora Globo, 1987
- Da Preguiça como Método de Trabalho - Rio de Janeiro, Editora Globo, 1987
- Porta Giratória - São Paulo, Editora Globo, 1988
- A Cor do Invisível - São Paulo, Editora Globo, 1989
- Velório Sem Defunto - Porto Alegre, Mercado Aberto, 1990
- Água - Porto Alegre, Artes e Ofícios, 2011
- Eu Passarinho - São Paulo, Para gostar de ler 41, Editora Ática, 2006 (Antologia póstuma)
Children's books
- O Batalhão das Letras - Porto Alegre, Editora do Globo, 1948
- Pé de Pilão - Petrópolis, Editora Vozes, 1968
- Lili inventa o Mundo - Porto Alegre, Mercado Aberto, 1983
- Nariz de Vidro - São Paulo, Editora Moderna, 1984
- O Sapo Amarelo - Porto Alegre, Mercado Aberto, 1984
- Sapato Furado - São Paulo, FTD Editora, 1994
Anthologies
- Nova Antologia Poética - Rio de Janeiro, Ed. do author, 1966
- Prose & Verso - Porto Alegre, Editora do Globo, 1978
- Chew me up Slowly (Caderno H) - Porto Alegre, Editora do Globo / Riocell, 1978
- Na Volta da Esquina - Porto Alegre, L&PM, 1979
- Objetos Perdidos y Otros Poemas - Buenos Aires, Calicanto, 1979
- Nova Antologia Poética - Rio de Janeiro, Codecri, 1981
- Literatura Comentada - Editora Abril, Seleção e Organização Regina Zilberman, 1982
- Os Melhores Poemas de Mario Quintana (seleção e introdução de Fausto Cunha) - São Paulo, Editora Global, 1983
- Primavera Cruza o Rio - Porto Alegre, Editora do Globo, 1985
- 80 anos de Poesia - São Paulo, Editora Globo, 1986
- Trinta Poemas - Porto Alegre, Coordenação do Livro e Literatura da SMC, 1990
- Ora Bolas - Porto Alegre, Artes e Ofícios, 1994
- Antologia Poética - Porto Alegre, L&PM, 1997
- Mario Quintana, Poesia Completa - Rio de Janeiro, Nova Aguilar, 2005
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Mario Quintana um par de sapatos para a posteridade - EntreLivros . In: uol.com.br .
- ↑ iG - Notícias Vídeos, Famosos, Esportes, Bate Papo, Infográficos . In: iG . Archived from the original on August 20, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
- ↑ a b Marilia Cech Ella: Mario Quintana . In: assisbrasil.org . Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
- ^ Giancarlo Perlo: O Ponto de Encontro: Encontro com Elena Quintana . In: altervista.org .
- ↑ A rua dos cataventos . In: google.com.br .
- ↑ Sapato florido . In: google.com.br .
- ↑ Caderno H . In: google.com.br .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quintana, Mario |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miranda Quintana, Mario de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian lyric poet, writer, translator and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alegrete , Brazil |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1994 |
| Place of death | Porto Alegre , Brazil |