Ignacio de Loyola Brandao
Ignácio de Loyola Brandão ( born July 31, 1936 in Araraquara, State of São Paulo) is a Brazilian writer and journalist.
Life
Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, son of a railway worker, began at seventeen to write for the local press. In 1956 he settled as a journalist and film critic in São Paulo. Loyola Brandão was an editor and contributor to various newspapers and magazines ( Última Hora, Cláudia ). 1981/82 he lived as a guest of the Berlin Artists Programme of the DAAD in Berlin. In 1982 he was a guest of the second edition of the West Berlin festival Horizonte - Festival of World Cultures. Since 1990 he was editor in chief of Vogue magazine in Brazil. Loyola Brandão writes regularly for the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo.
In 1965 the first volume of stories ( Depois do sol ), 1968 the first novel ( Bebel que a cidade COMEU ). The dominant theme of the works of Loyola Brandãos is life and survival in the Brazilian megacity of São Paulo, where most modern life on underdevelopment, illiteracy and primitiveness meets. Became internationally known Loyola Brandão published with the first of four publishers rejected in Brazil and then in Italy ( 1974) novel zero ( Suhrkamp 1979 German by Curt Meyer- Clason ) who openly directed against the military dictatorship. It tells the story of José, a former law student who hopes to find in the big city the meaning of life. Despite occasional work ( Piper, Agent ) and a marriage his hatred of the state and society is growing. As a criminal José will eventually jailed and tortured. Few works of modern Brazilian literature, the chaos of the big city recorded language, storytelling and also of the graphic design here so consistently. Published in 1975 in Brazil, the novel was banned after the 2nd edition of the Brazilian censorship for alleged " breach of morality and good manners " and in 1979 released.
In 1981 the previously best-selling book of the author, the novel Não Veras País No dive ( No country like this, German 1986 by Ray Guede Mertin ). Of the other works Loyola Brandãos are so far only excerpts from the O verde violentou o muro ( Oh- yes - yes - yes ) in 1984 was translated into German Berlin- report and 1979 Zero. Romance pré - historico ( Null. Prehistoric Roman).
He is a member ( seat 37 ) Academia de Letras Paulista in São Paulo.
Works
German Translations:
- Zero. Prehistoric Roman, Frankfurt / Main, 1979, ISBN 3-518-03556-8.
- No country like this, Frankfurt / Main, 1986, ISBN 3-518-11236-8.
- Oh- yes - yes - yes. Fragments, views, hallucinations, records. From the Brazilian Henry Thorau, Berlin, 1983, ISBN 3-920392-83-3.
Stories
- Depois do sol (1965 )
- Pega Ele Silêncio (1965 )
- Cadeiras proibidas (1976 )
- Obscenidades para uma dona de casa (1981 )
- Cabeças de segunda - feira (1983 )
- O homem do furo na mão (1987 )
- O homem que segunda - feira odiava (1999)
Novels
- Bebel que a cidade COMEU (1968 )
- Zero. Romance pré - historico (1974 )
- Dentes ao Sol (1976 )
- Não Veras País No dive (1981 )
- O Beijo Não Vem da Boca (1985 )
- Ganhador O (1987)
- O Anjo do Adeus (1995 )
- A Altura e a Largura do Nada (2006)
Children and Youth books
- Cães danados (1977 ), revised as: O menino que não teve medo medo do (1995 )
- O homem que espalhou o deserto (1989 )
- O segredo because nuvem (2006)
- O Menino que Vendia Palavras (2008)
Travel reports
- Cuba de Fidel: viagem à ilha proibida (1978 )
- O verde violentou o muro (1984 )
Biographies
- Fleming, descobridor because penicilina (1973 )
- Edison, inventor o since lâmpada (1973 )
- Ignácio de Loyola, fundador da Companhia de Jesus (1974 )
Autobiographical works
- Veia bailarina (1997)