Murilo Mendes
Murilo Mendes , actually Murilo Monteiro Mendes , (born May 13, 1901 in Juiz de Fora , State of Minas Gerais , Brazil , † August 13, 1975 in Lisbon , Portugal ) was a Brazilian poet . He was one of the most important poets in his country in the 20th century and an outstanding representative of "Modernismo Brasileiro".
Life
Murilo Mendes was born in a city in the state of Minas Gerais. As a teenager he attended the Salesian College in Niterói . In 1920 he moved to Rio de Janeiro . Various poems were published in magazines between 1924 and 1929. His first own book was published in 1930 under the title " Poemas ". This first book was awarded the Premio Graça Aranha. In 1934 he converted to Catholicism. The death of his best friend, the painter and poet Ismael Nery , plunged him into a deep crisis. During his life in Brazil he had a wide variety of activities. a. worked as a dentist, telegraph operator, bank clerk, archivist in a ministry and civil servant at local level. In Brazil his circle of friends included such important people as Manuel Bandeira , Carlos Drummond de Andrade , Oswald de Andrade .
In 1943 he had an extended stay in a sanatorium to recover from tuberculosis . In 1941 he married Maria da Saudade Cortesao, the daughter of the famous Portuguese historian and writer Jaime Cortesão , who lived in Brazil and had sons with her.
Between 1953 and 1956 he lived in Belgium and the Netherlands. In 1956 he went to Rome to teach Brazilian literature at the university there , with a brief visiting professorship in Pisa . He lived in Italy until his death in 1975 . Many of his poems and volumes of poetry have been published in Italy, Spain and Portugal. Major translators of his work were Giuseppe Ungaretti in Italy and Dámaso Alonso and Angel Crespo in Spain . Various poems have also been published in anthologies in France; his book "Contemplacao de Ouro Preto" (1954) was also published in French and contained lithographs by Francis Picabia especially made for it . The painter Guignard had portrayed him.
He also took part in various modernist conferences, which brought him friendships with André Breton , René Char , Albert Camus , Ezra Pound and Magritte .
Because of his literary commitment to freedom and democracy, the Franco government officially declared him a " persona non grata ".
He had last come to Brazil in 1972. He died in Lisbon in 1975.
He was one of the leading modernists and lyricists in his country in the 20th century. His work was shaped by Catholicism and a certain mysticism .
Work (selection)
- Poemas, 1930, poems.
- A poesia em Panico, (The Poetry in Panic), 1937, poems.
- O visionario, (The Visionary), 1941, poems.
- As Metarmorfoses, (Die Metarmorphosen), 1944, poems.
- Poesia Liberdade, (Poems of Freedom), 1947, poems.
Aftermath
His literary estate and his art collection were donated to the Museu de Arte Moderna Murilo Mendes in Juiz de Fora, which is named after him .
Web links
- Murilo Mendes. In: Enciclopédia Itaú , as of 2019
- Literature by and about Murilo Mendes in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Literature by and about Murilo Mendes in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- Website of the Museu de Arte Moderna Murilo Mendes
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- Murilo Mendes. In: com.br. educacao.uol.com.br, accessed April 8, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- Murilo Mendes. In: lusofoniapoetica.com. Lusofonia Poética, accessed April 8, 2020 (Portuguese).
- www.girafamania.com.br./artista/personalidade_murilo.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mendes, Murilo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mendes, Murilo Monteiro (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian lyric poet and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Juiz de Fora , Minas Gerais , Brazil |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1975 |
| Place of death | Lisbon , Portugal |