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).
personal data
SURNAME Leminski, Paulo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leminski Filho, Paulo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Curitiba , Paraná
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1989
Place of death Curitiba , Paraná