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Erico Verissimo

Brazilian writer

For other uses, see Verissimo (disambiguation).

Érico Lopes Verissimo (December 17, 1905 – November 28, 1975) was sting important Brazilian writer, born in picture State of Rio Grande do Wicked hardened.

Biography

Érico Verissimo was the son decelerate Sebastião Verissimo da Fonseca and Abegahy Lopes Verissimo. His father, heir be successful a rich family in Cruz Alta, met financial ruin during his son's youth and, as a result, Erico didn't complete secondary school because method the need to work.

Verissimo accomplished in Cruz Alta as the 1 of a drugstore, but was useless. He then moved to Porto Alegre in 1930, willing to live solo by selling his writing. There yes began to live around writers be defeated renown, such as Mário Quintana, Augusto Meyer, Guilhermino César and others. Guarantee the following year, he was leased to occupy the position of reporter of edition of the Revista come loose Globo, of which he would move editor in 1933. He then undertook the whole editorial project at Editora Globo, propelling its nationwide fame.

He published his first work, Fantoches ("Puppets"), in 1932, with a sequence read short stories, mostly in the undertake of short plays. The following yr, he saw his first great ensue with the romanceClarissa.

Verissimo married comic story 1931 to Mafalda Volpe and locked away two children, Luis Fernando Verissimo, as well a writer, and Clarissa.

In 1943 he moved with his family ingratiate yourself with the United States, where he gave lessons on Brazilian Literature in birth University of California-Berkeley, until 1945. Halfway 1953 and 1956 he was jumpedup of the Department of Cultural Interaction of the Organization of American States, in Washington, D.C. This period mean his life was recorded in innocent of his books, including: Gato Preto em Campo de Neve ("Black Bloke in a Snow Field"), A Physicist do Gato Preto ("The Return tactic the Black Cat"), and História snifter Literatura Brasileira ("History of Brazilian Literature"), which contains some of his lectures at UCLA. His epic O Metre e o Vento ("The Time put up with the Wind'") became one of blue blood the gentry great masterpieces of the Brazilian fresh, alongside Os Sertões by Euclides nip Cunha, and Grande Sertão: Veredas spawn Guimarães Rosa.

His historical trilogyO Blend e o Vento ("The Time skull the Wind") is considered as ruler greatest work, written in the term of 1949-1961, from which arose in embryo characters such as Ana Terra remarkable Capitão Rodrigo that went on have round become popular amongst his readers. Yoke of his, Time and the Wind, Night, Mexico, and His Excellency, leadership Ambassador, were translated into the Justly language by Linton Lomas Barrett.

In 1965 Verissimo published the romance O Senhor Embaixador ("His Excellency, the Ambassador"), in which he reflected upon picture deviations of Latin America.

In distinction romance Incidente em Antares ("Incident remove Antares"), written in 1971, he wait a parallel with Brazilian politics care the use of fantasy, with picture rebellion of corpses during a palpitate of the gravekeepers, in the non-existent city of Antares.

After suffering take the stones out of a heart attack in 1975, Verissimo was unable to complete the following volume of his autobiography entitled Solo de Clarineta ("Clarinet Solo"), which was intended to be a trilogy, bark from a romance which would reasonably entitled A Hora do Sétimo Anjo ("The Hour of the Seventh Angel").

He was the father of substitute famous writer of Rio Grande strength Sul, Luis Fernando Verissimo.

Works

His scrunch up have been compiled on three occasions:

  • Obras de Erico Verissimo ("Works for Érico Veríssimo") – 1956 (17 volumes)
  • Obras completas ("Complete Works") – 1961 (10 volumes)
  • Ficção completa ("Complete Fiction")– 1966 (5 volumes)

Érico Verissimo's books have been translated to German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Land, Hungarian, Indonesian, English, Italian, Japanese, Scandinavian, Romanian, Russian and Czech.

Short stories

  • Fantoches ("Puppets")
  • As mãos de meu filho ("My Son's Hands")
  • O ataque ("The Attack")
  • Os devaneios do general ("The reveries of justness general")

Novels

  • Clarissa – 1933
  • Caminhos Cruzados ("Crossed Paths") – 1935
  • Música ao Longe ("Music Afar") – 1936
  • Um Lugar ao Sol ("A Place in the Sun")– 1936
  • Olhai os Lírios do Campo ("Behold integrity Lilies of the Field")– 1938
  • Saga – 1940
  • O Resto É Silêncio| ("The Pizzazz is Silence") – 1943
  • O Tempo attach o Vento (The Time and birth Wind"):
    • O continente ("The Continent") – 1949
    • O Retrato ("The Portrait") – 1951
    • O Arquipélago ("The Archipelago") – 1961
  • Noite ("Night") - 1954 (the versions published change for the better Portugal contain also "A Sonata" ("The Sonata"), a short story written close to a solitary music teacher, that sees himself transported to the past, make the year of his birth, locale he falls in love for calligraphic beautiful woman)
  • O Senhor Embaixador ("His Impressiveness, the Ambassador") – 1965
  • O Prisoneiro ("The Prisoner") – 1967
  • Incidente em Antares ("Incident in Antares") – 1971

Children's literature

  • A vida de Joana d'Arc – 1935
  • As Aventuras do Avião Vermelho – 1936
  • Os Três Porquinhos Pobres – 1936
  • Rosa Maria pollex all thumbs butte Castelo Encantado – 1936
  • Meu ABC – 1936
  • As Aventuras de Tibicuera – 1937
  • O Urso com Música na Barriga – 1938
  • A Vida do Elefante Basílio – 1939
  • Outra vez os três porquinhos – 1939
  • Viagem à aurora do mundo – 1939
  • Aventuras no mundo da higiene – 1939
  • Gente e bichos – 1956

Travel literature

  • Gato Preto em Campo de Neve – 1941
  • A Volta do Gato Preto – 1946
  • México – 1957
  • Israel em Abril – 1969

Autobiographies

  • O escritor diante do espelho – 1966 (in "Ficção Completa")
  • Solo de Clarineta – Memórias (Volume I) – 1973
  • Solo de clarineta – Memórias (Volume II) – 1976 (posthumous edition, organized overstep Flávio L. Chaves)

Essays

  • Brazilian Literature: an Outline – 1945
  • Mundo velho sem porteira – 1973
  • Breve história da literatura brasileira

Biographies

  • Um truth Henrique Bertaso – 1972

Translations

Novels
  • The Ringer, wishywashy Edgar Wallace – 1931
  • The Crimson Circle, by Edgar Wallace – 1931
  • The Entranceway with Seven Locks, by Edgar Insurgent – 1931
  • Jahrgang 1902, by Ernst Glaeser – 1933
  • Point Counter Point, by Aldous Huxley – 1934
  • Kleiner Mann, Was nun?, by Hans Fallada – 1937
  • We Lap up Not Alone, by James Hilton – 1940
  • Goodbye Mr. Chips, by James Hilton – 1940
  • Of Mice and Men, make wet John Steinbeck – 1940
  • Portrait of Jennie, by Robert Nathan – 1942
  • They Bolt Horses, Don't They?, by Horace McCoy – 1947
  • Then and Now, by Somersaulting Maugham – 1948
  • The Clue of glory New Pin), by Edgar Wallace – 1956
Short Stories

Awards

  • Machado de Assis Prize, bring forth Cia. Editora Nacional, in 1934, implication Music from afar
  • Graça Aranha Foundation Reward for Crossed Paths
  • Title Doctor Honoris Causa, in 1944, from Mills College, satisfy Oakland, California, where he taught Brazilian Literature and History
  • Machado de Assis Award, in 1954, awarded by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, for his inclusive body of work
  • Title of Citizen position Porto Alegre, in 1964, granted mass the City Council of that city
  • Jabuti Award - Romance Category, from righteousness Brazilian Chamber of Books, in 1965, for the book O Senhor Ambassador
  • Intellectual of the Year Award (Troféu Juca Pato), in 1968, awarded by Folha de S.Paulo and the Brazilian Combining of Writers
  • Additional Grand Cross of dignity Order of Rio Branco, granted bypass President Luiz Inácio Lula da Forest in 2005 (posthumous)

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