Ruy Belo

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Ruy de Moura Belo (born February 27, 1933 in São João da Ribeira , Rio Maior , † August 8, 1978 in Queluz ) was a Portuguese poet and essayist, he is considered one of the most famous existentialists of the twentieth century in the Portuguese-speaking world. Ruy Belo also worked as a translator.

Life

Born in the small community of São João da Ribeira near Rio Maior , Ruy Belo began studying law at the University of Coimbra in 1952 . He finished his law studies in 1956 at the University of Lisbon . He then studied canon law at the Gregorian University of Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Belo received his doctorate in the same subject shortly afterwards, his dissertation is entitled Ficção Literário e Censura Eclesiástica , in German "Literary Fiction and Church Censorship". During his stay in Rome, Ruy Belo also became a member of the Catholic organization Opus Dei .

After his return to Portugal, Ruy Belo worked as a deputy head of department in what was then the Ministry of Education. Due to his participation in the academic general strike in 1962 and his candidacy for a member of the Comissão Eleitural de Unidade Democrática , in German "Electoral Commission of Democratic Unity" in 1969, he had to leave the ministry, at that time still under the fascist Salazar regime . In 1961, Ruy Belo received a scholarship for literary research from the culture-promoting Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In the course of his research he left the organization Opus Dei. In 1967 he studied Latin Philology at the University of Lisbon. From 1971 to 1977 Ruy Belo worked as a lecturer for Portuguese in Madrid. After his return in 1978, Belo took a position as a teacher at the technical college in Cacém. Ruy Belo died that same year on August 8th in Queluz near Lisbon.

Posthumously Ruy Belo received the title of Grand Officer of the Military Order of Sant'Iago da Espada on November 7, 1991, a successor to the Order of Santiago . In June 2003 a statue of Belo, as well as twenty other important Portuguese writers, was placed in the Parque dos Poetas in Oeiras .

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Despite his relatively short literary life, he is considered one of the most important Portuguese poets of the twentieth century. Ruy Belo wrote in the sixties and seventies and is considered to be one of the great existentialists in the Portuguese-speaking world. He also belongs to the group of Portuguese poets who created the renovação da linguagem poética , in German "Renewal of poetic language", which began in the in the fifties.

While Belo's first works Aquele Grande Rio Eufrates and above all O Problema da Habitação - Alguns aspectos deal with the question of inner being and the confrontation with the outside, his later works, above all Boca Bilingue and Homem de Palavra (s) , deal with more religious and metaphysical issues.

Some of the Portuguese writers, including his friend Gastão Cruz , see Ruy Belo as one of the most important realists of the Portuguese language and put him on a par with the authors António Nobre and Cesário Verde . In general, he is considered a modernist not only because of his treatment of existentialist and metaphysical questions, but also because of his failure to use the meter while using traditional Portuguese lyric techniques, including the sonnet .

Ruy Belo published a total of eight volumes of his poetry and two volumes of essays. He also translated works from French and Spanish into the Portuguese language. So far none of his works has appeared in the German-speaking area.

List of works

poetry

  • Aquele Grande Rio Eufrates (1961)
  • O Problema da Habitação - Alguns Aspectos (1962)
  • Boca Bilingual (1966)
  • Homem de Palavra (s) (1969)
  • País Possível (1973)
  • Transporte no Tempo (1973)
  • A Margem da Alegria (1974)
  • Toda a Terra (1976)
  • Despeço-me da Terra da Alegria (1978)

Essays and reviews

  • Poesia Nova (1961)
  • Na Senda da Poesia (1969)

Translations

Further information

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  1. ^ Álvaro Manuel Machado: Dicionário de Literatur Portuguesa , [Dictionary of Portuguese Literature], Editorial Presença Publishing House, Lisbon, September 1996
  2. ^ António José Saraiva: História da Literatura Portuguesa , [History of Portuguese Literature], Porto Editora Verlag , ISBN 972-0-30170-8 , p. 1073
  3. ↑ Gastão Cruz: Ruy Belo, poeta da morte, do real e da dúvida , [Ruy Belo, poet of death, reality and doubt], Jornal de Letras , nº 2, November 24, 1981

literature

  • Gastão Cruz: A Poesia Portuguesa Hoje . Plátano Editora, Lisbon 1973, ( Temas portugueses (Plátano) 3, ZDB -ID 190849-2 ).
  • Eduardo Prado Coelho: A Mecânica dos Fluidos. Literatura, cinema, teoria . Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, Lisbon 1984, ( Temas portugueses ).
  • Joaquim Manuel Magalhães: To Pouco de Morte . Editorial Presença, Lisbon 1989, ISBN 978-9-722-31030-7 , ( Colecção Temas e documentos 11).
  • Fernando Pinto do Amaral: Na Órbita de Saturno. Cinco ensaios e uma paráfrase . Hiena, Lisbon 1992, ( Colecção ideias e atitudes , ZDB -ID 2202508-X ).

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personal data
SURNAME Belo, Ruy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Belo, Ruy de Moura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese poet and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH São João da Ribeira, Rio Maior , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1978
Place of death Queluz , Portugal