Manuel Bandeira
Manuel Carneiro de Souza Bandeira Filho ( born April 19, 1886 Recife PE, † October 13, 1968, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian writer and poet. He is counted to the generation of 22 in modern Brazilian literature.
Biography
Bandeira studied architecture and engineering since 1903 in São Paolo. Because TB disease who lived in the period before the First World War in Davos. From 1914 first publications appeared. He translated many poets of world literature, such as Hölderlin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Friedrich Schiller and Novalis. From 1938 to 1943 he was a professor of literature at the University of Colégio Pedro II and in 1940 a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters ( Academia Brasileira de Letras ). In 1943 he was appointed professor of Spanish - American Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. In 1956, he went into retirement.
Poetry of Bandeira
Manuel Bandeira had a simple and direct style, which, however, did not share the hardness of poets such as João Cabral de Melo Neto. He chose ordinary and universal themes that he often worked with a poetic joke, which led to forms and ideas that looked at the academic tradition as vulgar.
Some of his poems ( as in the band Poética Libertinagem ) are almost a manifesto of modern poetry. Bandeiras roots brasileiro in Parnasianismo and the second phase of experimental Brazilian Modernism. It was established in 1922, invited to the Semana de Arte Moderna, the week of modern art to São Paulo, however, did not take part personally. Instead, he sent a poem (Os Sapo, The Frogs ) present.
The work Bandeiras is characterized by a certain melancholy in which he at the same time looking for a way to find the joy of life. Incurable lung disease he knew about it, that he could distinguish every moment of life; this feeling is reflected in many areas of his work.
Honors
Manuel Bandeira in 1940 a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras, the Brazilian Academy of Letters in Rio de Janeiro, and the third holder of the chair seat # 24 in succession by Luís Guimarães Filho.