Paulo Leminski

Paulo Filho Leminski ( born August 24, 1944 in Curitiba, Paraná, † June 7, 1989 ) was a Brazilian writer, poet, translator and teacher of Polish and African descent.

Life

Leminski lived from 12 to 14 years in Mosteiro de Sao Bento Monastery in Sao Paulo, where he acquired a basic knowledge of Latin, theology, philosophy and classical literature. At university he studied law and literature, but the study dropped out because of the military coup of 1964. In intensive exploration of Japanese culture he studied Zen Buddhism and judo, wrote haikus and a biography of Matsuo Basho. This was followed by biographies of Jesus, Trotsky and Cruz e Souza. In 1968 he married the poet Alice Ruiz, with whom he had three children.

Work

In poetry Leminskis unite informal style and rigor of the formal construction. Humorous meet elements of concreteness, the folk song, advertising, word games of popular culture and Japanese poetry.

1964 published his first poems in Leminski Invenção, a journal of Concrete Poetry. His first book of poems appeared in 1970, and " Catatau ", his first novel in 1976.

In addition to works by Alfred Jarry, James Joyce, John Fante, John Lennon, Samuel Beckett, and Yukio Mishima, he transferred Poems from the Ancient Egyptian, from the Aztec and Sanskrit into Portuguese. With Caetano Veloso, he collaborated musically - compositionally.

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• Catatau ( prose experimental). Curitiba, Ed. do author, 1975 Renewed: . Catatau. São Paulo, Iluminuras, 2010
• Agora é que são elastic ( romance ). São Paulo, Brasiliense, 1984
• Metaformose, uma viagem pelo Imaginário grego .. Iluminuras, São Paulo, 1994. ( Prêmio Jabuti de Literatura )