Olavo Bilac

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Olavo Bilac

Olavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac (born December 16, 1865 in Rio de Janeiro ; † December 28, 1918 ibid) was a Brazilian journalist, poet and teaching inspector. He is one of the founders of the “ Academia Brasileira de Letras ”.

Life

Bilac was the son of Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac and his wife Delfina Belmira Gomes de Paula.

After graduating from high school, he enrolled in his hometown medical school, but dropped out in the fourth year. He then tried his hand at law at the University of São Paulo , but did not get beyond the first year. Bilac devoted himself to journalism and literature very early on. He participated intensively in the politics of the country. His best-known political campaign was in support of general conscription.

A political journalist in the early years of the republic, he was one of those who was persecuted by Floriano Peixoto . Therefore he had to hide in Minas Gerais , where he was a regular house guest of Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco . He was arrested on his return to Rio de Janeiro.

In 1898 he was appointed teaching inspector of the state of Rio de Janeiro. In addition, he held several state offices and dignities.

His literary work can be classified in the so-called “ Parnasianismo ” (derived from the “ Parnassiens ”), which had its most productive phase in the 1880s. Bilac became the most outstanding representative of this style in Brazil.

The Academia

Machado de Assis and friends, later founding members of the academy, 1890.

Standing: Rodolfo Amoedo, Artur Azevedo, Inglês de Sousa, Olavo Bilac, José Veríssimo, Sousa Bandeira, Filinto de Almeida, Guimarães Passos, Valentim Magalhães, Rodolfo Bernadio, Rodrigo Octavio Heitor Peixoto. Sitting: João Ribeiro, Machado de Assis, Lúcio de Mendonça, Silva Ramos.

Bilac was one of the 40 founding members, Fundadores , of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL) established in Rio de Janeiro on July 20, 1897, and was the first seat holder of chair No. 15, for which he chose the patron saint Gonçalves Dias (1823–1864) . Since then he has been considered one of the immortals, the Imortais, of Brazilian literature .

The sonnet "Língua Portuguesa"

This is a sonnet that consists of ten-syllable heroic verses (accent on the 6th and 10th poetic syllable), with opposing, inserted or nested rhymes.

Língua Portuguesa
Última flor do Lácio, inculta e bela,
És, a um tempo, esplendor e sepultura:
Ouro nativo, que na ganga impura
A bruta mina entre os cascalhos vela ...

Amo-te assím, desconhecida e obscura,
Tuba de alto clangor, lira singela,
Que tens o trom eo silvo da procela,
E o arrolo da saudade e da ternura!

Amo o teu viço agreste eo teu aroma
De virgens selvas e de oceano largo!
Amo-te, ó rude e doloroso idioma.

Em que da voz materna ouvi: "meu filho!",
E em que Camões chorou, no exílio amargo,
O gênio sem ventura eo amor sem brilho!

Portuguese language
Last bloom of Lazio, uneducated and beautiful,
you are, at the same time, splendor and grave:
local gold
hidden in the unclean waste of the dark shaft between gravel ...

I love you so, unknown and dark,
blown up tuba, simple Lyra,
you have the thunder and the hiss of the storm
and the sad song of longing and tenderness!

I love your rough lushness and your aroma
of virgin forests and vast ocean!
I love you, oh harsh and painful language.

In which I heard the mother's voice: "My son!".
And wept in the Camoes, in bitter exile.
O genius without happiness and love without splendor.

Works

  • 1888: "Poesias"
  • 1894: "Crônicas e Novelas"
  • 1904: "Crítica e Fantasia"
  • 1906: "Conferências Literárias"
  • 1910: "Tratado de Versificação"
  • 1913: "Dicionário de Rimas"
  • 1916: "Ironia e Piedade, Crônicas"
  • 1919: "Tarde"
  • 1957: "Poesia" (published by Alceu Amoroso Lima )
Translations

Olavo Bilac also translated Max and Moritz by Wilhelm Busch , which was then called “Juca e Chico” in Portuguese.

Trivia

Olavo Bilac has already been portrayed as a personality in film and television. On television, he was played by Rui Minharro in the miniseries "Chiquinha Gonzaga," a miniseries by Rede Globo that aired in 2002. In the cinema he was portrayed by Carlos Alberto Riccelli in the film "Brasília 18%", a film produced by Globo Filmes in 2006.

literature

  • Mario Monteiro: Bilac e Portugal. Agencia Ed. Brasileira, Lisboa 1936.
  • A morte de Olavo Bilac: outras manifestações. In: Revista brasileira. Rio de Janeiro, Vol. 4, 1997, No. 13, pp. 137-158.
  • Antonio Dimas: Olavo Bilac and Canudos . In: ABP. Magazine on the Portuguese-speaking world. ISSN  0947-1723 . Born 1998, no . 2: The Socio-Religious Movement of Canudos (1893-1897), Part II: Literature, Press and Art .
  • Ruy Castro: Bilac vê estrelas. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo 2000, ISBN 85-359-0082-9 .
  • Alvaro Santos Simões Junior: A sátira do parnaso: estudo da poesia satírica de Olavo Bilac publicada em periódicos de 1894 a 1904. Ed. UNESP, São Paulo 2007, ISBN 978-85-7139-762-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meyer's large pocket dictionary in 24 volumes . Bibliographisches Institut 1992, Volume 3, p. 208.
  2. ^ Paula Perin dos Santos: Análise do poema "Língua Portuguesa , May 13, 2009. Portuguese, accessed August 10, 2012.
  3. ↑ Source: http://www.instructioneducation.info/Portsub/port6.html
    Accessed on: August 9, 2012.
  4. ↑ Online text Wilhelm Busch: Juca e Chico. História de Dois Meninos em Sete Travessuras. 11th edition. Melhoramentos, São Paulo undated. Retrieved November 18, 2010.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Bilac, Olavo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bilac, Olavo Braz Martins dos Guimarães (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian journalist, poet and teaching inspector
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Rio de Janeiro
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1918
Place of death Rio de Janeiro