Paulo Leminski

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Paulo Leminski on a graffiti in Curitiba

Paulo Leminski Filho (born August 24, 1944 in Curitiba , Paraná , † June 7, 1989 ibid) was a Brazilian writer , poet , translator and teacher of Polish and African descent.

Life

Leminski lived from the age of 12 to 14 in the Mosteiro de São Bento monastery in São Paulo , where he acquired basic knowledge of Latin , theology , philosophy and classical literature . He studied law and literature at university, but dropped out because of the 1964 military coup. In intensive engagement with Japanese culture, he studied Zen Buddhism and Judo , wrote haikus and a biography of Matsuo Bashō . Biographies of Jesus , Trotsky and Cruz e Souza followed . In 1968 he married the poet Alice Ruiz , with whom he had three children.

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In Leminski's poetry, informal style and rigor of formal construction are combined. Elements of concretism , folk songs, advertising, the word games of popular culture and Japanese poetry meet in a humorous way .

In 1964 Leminski published his first poems in Invenção, a magazine for concrete poetry . His first volume of poetry was published in 1970, and "Catatau", his first novel in 1976.

In addition to works by Alfred Jarry , James Joyce , John Fante , John Lennon , Samuel Beckett , and Yukio Mishima , he translated poems from ancient Egyptian, from Aztec and from Sanskrit into Portuguese. With Caetano Veloso he worked musically and compositionally.

Poetic work

  • Catatau (prosa experimental). Curitiba, Ed. do Author, 1975. Updated: Catatau. São Paulo, Iluminuras, 2010
  • Agora é que são elas (romance). São Paulo, Brasiliense, 1984
  • Metaformosis, uma viagem pelo imaginário grego .. Iluminuras, São Paulo, 1994. ( Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura )

literature

  • Toninho Vaz: Paulo Leminski. O bandido que sabia latim. Ed. Record, Rio de Janeiro 2001. (Biography, Portuguese)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leminski, Paulo (1944-1989). Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural: Literatura Brasileira, accessed January 24, 2012 (Portuguese).
  2. ^ Leminski, Paulo (1944-1989). Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural: Literatura Brasileira, accessed January 24, 2012 (Portuguese).