Olavo Bilac
Olavo Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac ( born December 16, 1865 in Rio de Janeiro, † December 28, 1918 same place ) was a Brazilian journalist, poet and teacher inspector. It is one of the founders of the " Academia Brasileira de Letras ".
Life
Bilac was the son of Brás Martins dos Guimarães Bilac and his wife Delfina Belmira Gomes de Paula.
After finishing high school he enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine of his native city, but abandoned his studies in the fourth year. After that, he dabbled in the law at the University of São Paulo, but did not on the first year out. Bilac devoted himself very early to journalism and literature. He was deeply involved in the politics of the country. His best-known political campaign was in support of conscription.
As a political journalist of the first years of the republic, he was one of those who were persecuted by Floriano Peixoto. That's why he had to hide in Minas Gerais, where he was a regular house guest of Afonso Arinos de Melo Franco. On his return to Rio de Janeiro, he was arrested.
In 1898 he was appointed inspector teaching the state of Rio de Janeiro. He also owned several government offices and dignities.
His literary work can be divided into the so-called " Parnasianismo " (derived from the " Parnassian " ) lane, who had his most productive phase in the 80s of the 19th century. Was Bilac the most outstanding representatives of this style in Brazil.
The Academia
Bilac was one of the 40 founding members, Fundadores, the built in Rio de Janeiro on July 20, 1897 Academia Brasileira de Letras (ABL) and was the first seat holder of the chair No. 15, for which he chose the name patron Gonçalves Dias ( 1823-1864 ). He has since been regarded as one of the immortals, the Imortais, the Brazilian literature.
The sonnet " Língua Portuguesa "
This is a sonnet that consists of decasyllabic heroic verse (accent on the 6th and 10th poetic syllable), with opposite, inserted or nested rhymes.
Língua Portuguesa Última flor do lació, inculta e bela, És, to a tempo, esplendor e sepultura: Ouro nativo, que na ganga impura A brutal mina entre os cascalhos vela ... Amo-te Assim, desconhecida e obscura, Tuba de alto clangor, lira Singela, Que least trom o e o silvo because procela, E o arrolo as e saudade da ternura! Amo o teu Vico agreste e o teu aroma De Virgens Selvas e largo de oceano! Amo-te ó rude e doloroso idioma. Em que voz da materna ouvi: " meu filho! " E em que Camões Chorou, No Exilio amargo, O Gênio this ventura e o amor sem brilho!
Portuguese Language Last flower of Latium, uneducated and beautiful, you are, at the same time, superb and grave: native gold, in the impure waste The dark bay between gravel hidden ... I love you so, unknown and dark, hochschmetternde Tuba, simple lyre, You're the thunder and the hiss of the wind and the sad song of longing and tenderness! I love your rough luxuriance and your flavor of virgin forests and wide ocean! I love you, O bitter and painful language. In which I heard from the mother 's voice: " my son ". And in the Camões wept in bitter exile. O genius without happiness and love without gloss.
Works
Olavo Bilac also translated Max and Moritz by Wilhelm Busch, which then " Juca e Chico " was translated into Portuguese.
Trivia
Olavo Bilac has already been portrayed as a personality in film and television. On television, he was played by Rui Minharro in the miniseries " Chiquinha Gonzaga ," a miniseries of Rede Globo, which aired in 2002. In the cinema, he was represented by Carlos Alberto Riccelli in the movie " Brasília 18 %," a film that was produced by Globo film in 2006.