Ruy Belo
Ruy de Moura Belo (* February 27, 1933 in São João da Ribeira, Rio Maior, † 8 August 1978 in Queluz ) was a Portuguese poet and essayist, he is considered one of the most famous existentialists of the twentieth century in the Portuguese -speaking world. Ruy Belo also worked as a translator.
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Life
Born in the small village of São João da Ribeira near Rio Maior, Ruy Belo began in 1952 at the University of Coimbra to study law. His law studies he finished 1956 at the Lisbon University. Then he studied canon law at the Gregorian University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Belo earned his doctorate in the same subject shortly thereafter, his dissertation is titled Ficção literario e Censura Eclesiástica to German "Literary fiction and ecclesiastical censorship". During his stay in Rome Ruy Belo was also a member of the Catholic organization Opus Dei.
After his return to Portugal Ruy Belo worked as Deputy Head in the then Ministry of Education. Due to its participation in the academic general strike in 1962 and his deputies candidacy for Comissão Eleitural de Unidades Democrática to German " Election Commission of democratic unity ", 1969, he had the ministry at that time, still left under the fascist Salazar regime. In 1961 Ruy Belo a scholarship for literary research of the cultural promotion Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In the course of his research, he left the organization Opus Dei. In 1967, he studied Latin Philology at the University of Lisbon. In the years 1971-1977 Ruy Belo worked as a lecturer in Portuguese in Madrid. After his return in 1978 Belo took a job as a teacher at the technical school in Cacém. Ruy Belo died in the same year on August 8, in Queluz near Lisbon.
Posthumously awarded Ruy Belo on 7 November 1991 the title of Grand Officer of the Military Order of Sant'Iago as Espada, a successor of Santiago. In June 2003, a statue of Belo, as well as twenty other important Portuguese writers, situated in the Parque dos Poetas in Oeiras.
Work
Despite its relatively short literary life, he is regarded as one of the most important Portuguese poets of the twentieth century. Ruy Belo wrote in the sixties and seventies and is regarded as one of the great existentialists in the Portuguese -speaking world, and he also belongs to the group of Portuguese poet, which the renovação da linguagem poética to German "renewal of poetic language ", which had its beginning in the had fifties, drove forward.
While Belus first works Aquele Rio Grande Eufrates and especially O Problema da Habitação - Alguns Aspectos deal with the question of the inner being and the confrontation with the exterior, treat his later works, especially Boca Bilingue de Homem and Palavra ( s ) more religious and metaphysical questions.
A part of the Portuguese writers, including, for example, his friend Gastão Cruz see Ruy Belo as one of the most important realists of the Portuguese language and make him equal with the authors António Nobre and Cesário Verde. In general, it is not only because of its treatment of existential and metaphysical questions as modernist, but also because of non-use of the meter with simultaneous use of traditional Portuguese poetry techniques, including the sonnet.
Ruy Belo published eight volumes of his poetry and two books of essays. In addition, he has translated works from French and Spanish into Portuguese. So far, none of his works in the German language has been published.
List of Works
Poetry
- Aquele Rio Grande Eufrates (1961 )
- O Problema da Habitação - Alguns Aspectos (1962 )
- Boca Bilingue (1966 )
- Homem de Palavra ( s ) ( 1969)
- País possivel (1973 )
- Transports no tempo ( 1973)
- A Margem da Alegria (1974 )
- Toda a Terra (1976 )
- Despeço - me da Terra da Alegria (1978 )
Essays and reviews
- Poesia Nova (1961 )
- Na Senda because Poesia (1969 )
Translations
- Piloto de Guerra (Antoine de Saint -Exupery)
- Cidadela (Antoine de Saint -Exupery)
- Moravagine ( Blaise Cendrars )
- Poemas Escolhidos ( Jorge Luis Borges )
- Dona Rosinha a Solteira ou a Linguagem das Flores ( Federico García Lorca)