Raul Bopp

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Raul Bopp (born August 4, 1898 in Vila Pinhal ( Santa Maria ), now in Itaara , Rio Grande do Sul , † June 2, 1984 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a Brazilian modernist poet and diplomat .

Life

Bopp was the son of Alfredo Bopp and Josefina Bopp. On his mother's side, he was descended from the first German immigrants to Rio Grande do Sul in 1824.

Raul Bopp founded two weekly newspapers in Tupanciretã, studied 1918-1925 jurisprudence and practiced the profession of lawyer in Recife and Rio de Janeiro from.

From February 11 to 18, 1922, he and his friends Tarsila do Amaral and Oswald de Andrade performed their own lyrical works in the Semana de Arte Moderna in the Theatro Municipal . In São Paulo , where on March 18, 1924 Oswald de Andrade published the Manifesto da Poesia Pau-Brasil in the Correio da Manhã and Mário de Andrade published the Manifesto Antropofágico in the Revista de Antropofagia in May 1928 , he cultivated friendships with Jorge Amado and Carlos Drummond de Andrade . He traveled to Brazil and received inspiration in the Amazon basin for his book Cobra Norato , which is considered the standard work of the Movimento Antropófago and which he published in 1927, in excerpts , in the journal Para Todos directed by Álvaro Moreyra . He published in the segunda dentição Revista de Antropofagia . At the request of Américo Facó, he headed the editorial team of Agência Brasileira de Notícias , in which he interviewed Getúlio Vargas .

In May 1932 he was appointed consular laborer and sent to Kobe in July , where he was charge of the consulate from August 1932 to February 1934. In January 1934, he was appointed second class consul in recognition of his achievement. He was posted to Yokohama , where he traveled from November 1935 to January 1936 and was employed at the commercial agency until May 1938. In 1938 he founded in Tokyo the Correio da Asia in which Brazilian and Japanese economists wrote and whose leadership after him José Jobim took over. In 1938 he published the articles "Geografia Mineral" and "Sol & Banana" in Correio da Asia with José Jobim. He sent germinable soybeans to Brazil.

From 1938 he held the position of Director da Secretaria do Conselho Federal do Comérico Exterior . From 1941 to 1944 he was consul in Los Angeles ; there he met Érico Veríssimo again, who was there serving as director of the Pan American Union in Washington, DC . In 1945 he was assigned to the consulate in Lisbon. In 1947, Raul Bopp was delegation secretary for the administration of the Rio Branco Institute under Lafayette de Carvalho e Silva.

From 1953 to 1954 Raul Bopp was Chargé d'Affaires in Guatemala City . From June 22, 1954 to December 17, 1958 he was ambassador in Bern . From December 26, 1958 to October 7, 1962 he was ambassador to Vienna . From November 12, 1962 to August 4, 1963 he was ambassador in Lima .

In 1977 he was awarded the Prêmio Machado de Assis .

Poetic work

  • Cobra Norato: nheengatú da margem esquerda do Amazonas. 1931 ( cobra snake )
  • Urucungo. Poemas negros. Ariel Editora, Rio de Janeiro 1936.
  • Poesias. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1947.
  • Mironga e Outros Poemas. Civlização Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro 1978.

Published posthumously:

  • Augusto Massi (Ed.): Poesia completa de Raul Bopp. Olympio, Rio de Janeiro 1998.

prose

  • with José Jobim: Geografia mineral. Yokohama 1938.
  • America. Los Angeles 1942 ([short Pan-American pamphlet]).
  • Notas de um Caderno sobre o Itamaraty. Rio de Janeiro 1956.
  • Movimentos Modernistas no Brasil: 1922/1928. Rio de Janeiro, São José 1966.
  • Memórias de um Embaixador. Count. Record Ed., Rio de Janeiro 1968.
  • "Bopp passado-a-limpo" por êle mesmo. Companhia Editora Americana Rio de Janeiro 1972.
  • Vida e Morte da Antropofagia. Rio de Janeiro, Civilização Brasileira / Brasilia, DF, INL, 1977.
  • Longitudes. Crônicas de viagens. Instituto Estadual do Livro, Porto Alegre 1980.

literature

  • Eli Behar: Vultos do Brasil. Biografias, história e geografia. Com 145 ilustrações. Hemus Editora, São Paulo 1980, ISBN 85-289-0006-1 , p. 50.
  • K. David Jackson: Bopp, Raul. In: Irwin Stern (Ed.): Dictionary of Brazilian literature. Greenwood Press, New York 1988, ISBN 0-313-24932-6 , pp. 63-64.
  • Zé Lima: Raul Bopp. Tchê !, Porto Alegre 1985. (biography, Portuguese).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Raul Bopp | Acervo da Graphia. In: wordpress.com. acervodagraphia.wordpress.com, accessed January 17, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  2. ^ Antônio Roberto Esteves: Cobra Norato de Raul Bopp: leituras possíveis . In: Revista de Letras . tape 28 , 1988, pp. 73-83 , JSTOR : 27666508 .
predecessor Office successor
Mário Loureiro Dias Costa Brazilian Chargé d'affaires in Guatemala
1953 to 1954 		Octavio Lafayette de Souza Bandeira
Vladimir do Amaral Murtinho Brazilian Ambassador in Bern
June 22, 1954 to December 17, 1958 		Quintino Symphoroso Deseta
Antonio Roberto de Arruda Botelho Brazilian Ambassador in Vienna
December 26, 1958 to October 7, 1962 		Carlos Frederico Duarte Gonçalves da Rocha
Guy Marie de Castro Brandâo Brazilian Ambassador in Lima
November 12, 1962 to August 4, 1963 		Fernando Ronald de Carvalho
personal data
SURNAME Bopp, Raul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian modernist poet and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Vila Pinhal, Itaara , Rio Grande do Sul
DATE OF DEATH 2nd June 1984
Place of death Rio de Janeiro