Murilo Mendes

Murilo Mendes, actually Murilo Mendes Monteiro, ( born May 13, 1901 in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, † August 13, 1975 in Lisbon, Portugal) was a Brazilian poet. He was one of the most important poets of his country in the 20th century and an outstanding representative of the " modernist Brasileiro ".

Life

Murilo Mendes was born in a city in the state of Minas Gerais. As a teenager, he attended the Salesian Kollegg in Niteroi. In 1920, he moved to Rio de Janeiro. Between 1924 and 1929, several poems were published in magazines. His own first book was published in 1930 under the title " Poemas ". Already this first book was awarded the Premio Graça Aranha. In 1934 he converted to the Catholic faith. The death of his best friend, the painter and poet Ismael Nery, plunged him into a deep crisis. During his life in Brazil, he had exercised a wide variety of activities: so who is he among other things, worked as a dentist, telegraph, bank employee, archivist in a ministry and government officials at the municipal level. In Brazil, one of his friends so important people such as Manuel Bandeira, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade.

In 1943 he had to recover an extended stay in a sanitarium of tuberculosis. In 1941 he married Maria da Saudade Cortesao, the daughter of the famous Portuguese historian and writer Jaime Cortesao who lived in Brazil and had sons with her.

Between 1953 and 1956 he lived in Belgium and the Netherlands. In 1956 he went to Rome to teach at the university Brazilian literature, with a short guest professor in Pisa. He lived until his death in 1975 in Italy. Many of his poems and books of poems were published in Italy, Spain and Portugal. Significant translator of his work was in Italy Giuseppe Ungaretti and Spain Damaso Alonso and Angel Crespo. In France, several poems were published in anthologies; his book " Contemplacao de Ouro Preto " (1954) also appeared in French and contained specially created lithographs by Francis Picabia. The painter Guignard had portrayed him.

He also participated in several conferences modernist, which earned him the friendships with Andre Breton, Rene Char, Albert Camus, Ezra Pound and Magritte.

Because of his literary commitment to freedom and democracy, the Franco government declared him officially to the " persona non grata ".

In 1972 he came the last time to Brazil. He died in 1975 in Lisbon.

He was one of the leading modernists and poet of his country in the 20th century. His work was influenced by Catholicism and a certain mysticism.

Work (selection)

• Poemas, 1930, poems.
• O visionario, ( The Visionary ), 1941, poems.
• As Metarmorfoses, ( The Metarmorphosen ), 1944, poems.
• Poesia Liberdade, ( poems of freedom ), 1947, poems.

Swell

• Www.eduacaçao.uol.com/br/biografias/ult-1789u_611.jhtm.
• Www.girafamania.com.br. / artista / personalidade_murilo.html
• Www.lusofoniapoetica.com / index.php / artigos / poesia brasil.murilo - mendes.html

• Author
• Brazilian
• Born 1901
• Died in 1975
• Man