Paz, Octavio

Ciudad de México (México), 1914 – 1998

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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…

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(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…

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(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…

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(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…

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(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…

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(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,…

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(Português) Borges, Jorge Luis

Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1889 - Geneva (Switzerland), 1986 By Flávio Aguiar One of the foundational pillars of 20th-century Latin American literature, he ensured both the renewal and the re-engagement with Western cultural roots for the continent. He created the Martín Fierro group, a mouthpiece for the literary avant-garde in Argentina…

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(Português) Bioy Casares, Adolfo

Buenos Aires (Argentina), 1914 - 1999 By Flávio Aguiar Author of novels, short stories, and screenplays, he was the writer who had the closest relationship with Jorge Luis Borges, with whom he co-authored several volumes of detective stories featuring the character Isidro Parodi, published under the pseudonyms H. Bustos Domecq…

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