João Guimarães Rosa

João Guimarães Rosa ( * June 27, 1908 in Cordisburgo, Minas Gerais, † November 19, 1967 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian writer. His most famous novel Grande Sertão: veredas is regarded by some literary critics as the Brazilian equivalent of Ulysses ( James Joyce ) and Berlin Alexanderplatz ( Alfred Doblin ).

Biography

Guimarães Rosa was the first of six children of Florduardo Pinto Rosa (nicknamed " Seu Fulo " ) and D. Francisca Guimarães Rosa ( " Chiquitinha " ) born.

A self-taught himself Guimarães Rosa, a knowledge of many languages ​​appropriated. He began with the French, when he was seven years old, as he said later in an interview with a cousin:

As a child, he came to his grandparents in Belo Horizonte, where he finished primary school. The high school he attended first at Santo Antônio College in São João del Rei, but he soon returned to Belo Horizonte, where he finished school. In 1925 he competed at the age of only 16 years in the medical faculty of the University of Minas Gerais.

On 27 June 1930 he married Lígia Cabral Penna, a 16 - year-old girl, with whom he had two daughters, Vilma and Agnes. In the same year he completed his studies and began to work, which belonged to Itauna in Minas Gerais at the time as a doctor in Itaguara. He remained there about two years. In this small town he came for the first time with people from the Sertão in contact, that area that became the point of reference and source of inspiration of his work later.

Back in Itaguara served Guimarães Rosa as a volunteer doctor in the Força Pública during the revision of the Constitution of 1932. In Passa Quatro, Minas Gerais, he came up with the future President Juscelino Kubitschek, the chief doctor at that time was in contact. Later he became a civil servant. In 1933 he went to Barbacena to work as a doctor at the 9th Battalion ( Oficial Médico do 9 º Batalhão de Infantaria ). He spent most of his life as a Brazilian diplomat in Europe and Latin America.

In 1963 he was unanimously elected to the Academia Brasileira de Letras in his second candidacy. He could take his seat until 1967, three days before he died of a heart attack.

His most famous novel is probably the monumental work Grande Sertão, are mounted in the like of authors of magical realism set pieces from Europe, however, not indigenous myths ( Faust, Odysseus ). Therefore be expected Guimaraes Rosa to the flow of magic realism, despite the regionalist background not readily possible. Critics emphasize more the relationship with the " Literatura fantástica " the countries of the Rio de la Plata.

All translations into German Curt Meyer- Clason worried.

Selected Works

• Caçador de camurças, Chronos Kai Anagke, O Misterio de Highmore Hall e Makine (1929 )
• Lava (1936)
• Sagarana, O Duelo (1946 ), dt Sagarana: narrative cycle
• Com o Vaqueiro Mariano (1947 )
• Corpo de Baile (1956 ), German corps de ballet. Novel cycle. novel
• Grande Sertão: veredas (1956 ), dt Grande Sertão, novel
• Primeiras Estórias (1962, filmed under the title A Terceira Margem do Rio )
• Tutaméia? Terceiras Estórias (1967 ), dt Tutaméia: third stories
• Em João Guimarães Rosa de Memória (1968, posthumous )
• Estas Estórias e Ave, Palavra (1969/1970, posthumous )
• Meu tio iauaretê, My uncle, the Jaguar: narrative
• Buriti (short story)
• Hinterland, e photographer. Sequence of Maureen Bisilliat to texts by João Guimarães Rosa. From d brasilian. Portug. Curt Meyer- Clason of. With e afterword by Edgar Ricardo of Buettner. - 1st edition - St. Gallen; Cologne: Ed. diá, 1987.