Alceu Amoroso Lima

Alceu Amoroso Lima ( born December 11, 1893 in Rio de Janeiro; † August 14, 1983 in Petrópolis ) was a Brazilian writer, literary critic and politician. He wrote under the pseudonym Tristão de Ataíde.

Life

Alceu Amoroso Lima studied law in Rio de Janeiro. After graduating in 1913 he traveled to France. After his return to Brazil, he worked as a literary critic and adopted his pseudonym. From Jackson de Figueiredo and P. Leonel Franca SJ affected, he converted to the Catholic Church in 1928 and headed to the death de Figueiredo's the Centro Dom Vital, meeting place of the Catholic intellectualism of the country. In 1932 he founded together with Plinio Correa de Oliveira and Heitor da Silva Costa with the support of Cardinal Archbishop Sebastião Leme da Silveira Cintra, the Catholic Electoral League. Later, influenced by Jacques Maritain, he changed his political course. On 29 August 1935 he was modeled after the Académie française, elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras, a literary academy. From 1935 to 1945 he was president of the Catholic Action of Brazil. From 1941 to 1963 he was a lecturer at the Pontifical Catholic University do Rio de Janeiro ( Dt. Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro) for Brazilian literature. During the military government, he sat down for a journalistic expression and press freedom.

Works (selection)

• Estudos - Segunda série (1927 )
• Política (1932 )
• Elementos de Ação católica (1938 )
• Mitos de nosso tempo (1943 )
• O problema do trabalho (1946 )
• Meditações sobre o mundo interior (1953 )
• O existencialismo e outros mitos de nosso tempo (1951 )
• O gigantismo econômico (1962 )
• O humanismo ameaçado (1965 )
• Revolução Suicida (1977 )
• Tudo é Misterio (1983 )