Graça Aranha

Graça Aranha, José Pereira da Graça Aranha actually ( born June 21, 1868 in São Luís, Maranhão state, † January 26, 1931 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian writer, diplomat and co-founder of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.

• 4.1 as an author
• 4.2 as the publisher

Life

Aranha was born into an upper class family of Maranhão, northeastern Brazil: his parents Silva Maciel Aranha and his wife Maria were temistocles da da da Graça Gloría. After completing his schooling Aranha went to Recife at the local Faculdade de Direito do Recife, today's Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, to study law. At the Faculty of Law a liberal arts currents in the North East had formed with the School of Recife, the Aranha was connected. In 1886 he was able to successfully complete his studies. After he was sent as a judge to Porto do Cachoeiro in ( Espirito Santo ).

Diplomatic career

In 1899 he became secretary of Joaquim Nabuco, whom he accompanied in 1900, as was this ambassador in London. 1902 published his first famous novel Canaã ( Canaan ) and traveled in 1903 to Rome, where he served on an organized Angelo De Gubernatis Congresso dos Povos Latinos as Vice President. In 1905 he was secretary of legation second class with a Brazilian- Bolivian arbitration. 1906 was secretary of legation second class with a Brazilian- peruanischenen arbitration and was promoted to Secretary of Legation first class and sent as a delegate to the third Pan-American Conference in Rio de Janeiro.

Under the President of Brazil Nilo Peçanha 1909 he was accredited at the embassy in Bern and 11 March 1910 as chargé d'affaires in Oslo. As Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca in 1910 became president of the country, he took Aranha again in the diplomatic service. From August 22 1912 to 21 November 1914 he was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister for plénipotentiaire at the court of The Hague and was subsequently retired. In 1920 he returned to Brazil.

Scripture Generic work and Academy

Although he had not yet published his first work, he was in 1897 one of the founding members of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL) with the chair Cadeira number 38, for which he chose as patron Tobias Barreto. He was regarded as " difficult" and he was ostracized if his views and ideas. When he convened a meeting on 19 June 1924 to spread his ideas, escalated the dispute, as he described the founding of the Academy as an error, and with effect from 18 October of the same year he resigned from the ABL again. In the same year he founded together with Renato Almeida, the magazine " Movimento Brasileiro ".

His first novel Canaã, published in 1902, deals with the German immigration in the state of Espírito Santo. At the Academy he had with João Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira (1865-1917) a discourse that in the Antologia da Academia Brasileira de Letras was published in 1941 until years later. During his stay in Europe he published in France in 1911 his drama, Mala Tender, which was premiered with stage designs by F. Montagny at the Théâtre de l' Oeuvre in Paris, where Greta Prozor (* 1885 in Paris, † 1978), a daughter of Moritz Prozor, had a role.

In 1915 he gave a lecture on the topic about the heroic life of Joaquim Nabuco before the Sociedade Cultura Artística published printed in the following year (A Mocidade Heroica de Joaquim Nabuco ).

At the age of 62 years Graça Aranha died on January 26, 1931 in Rio de Janeiro and found his final resting place.

Honors

• The community Graça Aranha in Maranhão state was named in honor him so.
• Also he was in honor - but only for a short time - the Graça Aranha Prêmio launched

Reception

Graça Aranha is considered an important precursor of Modernism in Brazil. During his studies he made ​​the acquaintance of representatives of the philosophical school of Recife and belonged to her soon to also. Despite his differences with the ABL, he is still considered an important representative of the Modernimo Brasileiro. Aranha saw not only the literature alone, but always as a holistic artistic movement. He was instrumental in the process in 1922 to initiate the Semana de Arte Moderna.

In the German so far none of his works translated.

Works (selection)

As author

• Canaã. Novela. In 1902.
• A viagem maravilhosa. In 1929.
• O meu proprio romance. In 1931.

• Estética da Vida. In 1921.
• O espírito moderno. In 1924.

• Malazarte. , 1911.

• Afrânio Coutinho ( Eds.): Obras completa. Rio de Janeiro in 1969.

As editor

• Correspondencia de Machado de Assis e Joaquim Nabuco. In 1923.