Paz, Octavio
Comments Off on Paz, Octavio
29/01/2022
Parra, Nicanor
Comments Off on Parra, Nicanor
29/01/2022
Mutis, álvaro
Comments Off on Mutis, álvaro
29/01/2022
Mistral, Gabriela
Comments Off on Mistral, Gabriela
29/01/2022
Carpentier, Alejo
Havana (Cuba), 1904 - Paris (France), 1980 By Flávio Aguiar The literary success of his works was echoed in essays that founded concepts for understanding Latin American art. He formulated the theoretical foundations of "Marvellous Realism," which he adopted in many of his texts, where he asserted nationalist, revolutionary, and…
Comments Off on Carpentier, Alejo
22/01/2022
(Português) Cardenal, Ernesto
Granada (Nicaragua), 1925 By Flávio Aguiar Ordained as a priest in 1965, Ernesto Cardenal Martínez developed his religious career alongside his literary and political endeavors, which gave his poetic production a blend of prophetic tone, biblical forms full of lyricism, and commitment to the Sandinista Revolution. In 1952, he founded…
Comments Off on (Português) Cardenal, Ernesto
22/01/2022
(Português) Candido, Antonio
Rio de Janeiro, 1918 - São Paulo (Brazil), 2017 By Flávio Aguiar Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza graduated in social sciences from the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences, and Letters at the University of São Paulo (USP), where he worked until 1958. He engaged in literary criticism since his formative…
Comments Off on (Português) Candido, Antonio
22/01/2022
(Português) Campos, Haroldo de
São Paulo (Brazil), 1929 - 2003 By Flávio Aguiar A controversial poet and essayist, he deepened the writing techniques of the modernists of 1922, particularly those of Oswald de Andrade. He developed syntactical innovations anticipated in the poetry of Mário Faustino and rejected the confessional sentimentalism produced by the previous…
Comments Off on (Português) Campos, Haroldo de
22/01/2022
(Português) Callado, Antonio
Niterói, 1917 - Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), 1997 By Flávio Aguiar He began his journalism career at the age of seventeen, an activity that yielded notable reports, including those collected in the volume Vietnã do Norte (1977). Concerned with profound social distortions, he declared in the 1960s that "an intellectual…
Comments Off on (Português) Callado, Antonio
22/01/2022
(Português) Cabrera Infante, Guillermo
Gibara (Cuba), 1929 - London (England), 2005 By Flávio Aguiar The mastery and boldness with which he handles language, crafting text through a fusion of meanings and significants, rhythms and sounds, make this Cuban a challenger of traditional rhetoric. From his first work, a collection of stories published in 1960,…
Comments Off on (Português) Cabrera Infante, Guillermo
22/01/2022
