Jaime Montestrela

Jaime Montestrela ( born June 12, 1925 in Lisbon, † November 8, 1975 in Paris) is a fictional Portuguese poet and writer, invented by the French author Hervé Le Tellier.

Fictitious resume

Jaime Montestrela, son of a Portuguese and a Spaniard belonged to that generation of writers Portuguese, who began to write and get involved in politics, as well as Augusto Abaleira and Eugénio de Andrade during the Salazar regime. Montestrela studied medicine and began on Miguel Bombarda hospital in Lisbon to work as a psychiatrist. In 1950 he published his first volume of poetry, Prisão, under the pseudonym Jaime Caxias, after the eponymous prison for political prisoners. In 1951 he went into exile in Brazil, lived in Rio de Janeiro and took to the Brazilian citizenship. He maintained a close friendship with the writer and critic Jorge de Sena. As in 1965, the military came to power, he left Brazil and went to Paris. There he died in 1975 due to a ruptured aneurysm.

The text of this extraordinary writer pull through so existential questions such as the absence of God and after the decay of the body. But Montestrela strikes not only serious tones. His language is both a humorous and poetic, sometimes coarse. He was close to the surrealist and was friends with some members of the Oulipo, who invited him in 1974 as an honorary member.

Fictional Publications

  • Prisão (1950 )
  • Cidade de lama (1962 )
  • Contos aquosos (1974 ), some of these anecdotes presented the inventor Montestrelas, Hervé Le Tellier, as a " French Translation " under the title Contes most liquid (cash and short stories ) published by Éditions de l' Attente, in 2012.

Intertextuality

Some short stories from the Contos aquosos by Jaime Montestrela found as fragments in the novel by the French writer Eléctrico W Hervé Le Tellier again. The narrator Vincent Balmer trying it - as the author himself - as a translator and editor of Jaime Montestrelas texts. The novel Eléctrico W appears in the autumn of 2012 in German ( translated by Jürgen and Romy rounds) under the title " Nine days in Lisbon".

Quote

Montestrelas texts, often funny shortest stories, condense strange encounters and absurd reflections to scarce sentences, as the following example shows: On Good Friday, on the island Tahiroha eating cannibals converted to Christianity only sailors.

  • Author
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( Portuguese)
  • Portuguese
  • Born in 1925
  • Died in 1975
  • Man
Portugal Surrealism
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