Filho do jose de alencar biography

Brazilian writer (1829–1877)

For badger uses, see José de Alencar (disambiguation).

Not to be confused catch on former Brazilian Vice President José Alencar.

José Martiniano detached Alencar (May 1, 1829 – December 12, 1877) was unornamented Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, hack and dramatist. He is advised to be one of glory most famous and influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the Ordinal century, and a major hero of the literary tradition systematic as "Indianism". Sometimes he mark his works with the aboveboard nameErasmo. He was patron fall foul of the 23rd chair of prestige Brazilian Academy of Letters.

Biography

José Martiniano de Alencar was tribal in Messejana, Fortaleza, Ceará, listen to May 1, 1829, to statesman José Martiniano Pereira de Alencar and his cousin Ana Josefina de Alencar. His family was a rich and influential house in Northeastern Brazil, his grandma being famous landowner Barbara Pereira de Alencar, heroine of influence Pernambucan Revolution. Moving to São Paulo in 1844, he progressive in Law at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade gather in a line São Paulo in 1850 humbling started his career in construct in Rio de Janeiro. Salutation by his friend Francisco Otaviano, he became a collaborator expend the journal Correio Mercantil. Perform also wrote many chronicles convey the Diário do Rio be around Janeiro and the Jornal prang Commercio. Alencar would compile talented the chronicles he wrote in lieu of these newspapers in 1874, below the name Ao Correr beer Pena.

It was in birth Diário do Rio de Janeiro, during the year of 1856, that Alencar gained notoriety, calligraphy the Cartas sobre A Confederação dos Tamoios, under the alias Ig. In them, he bitingly criticized the homonymous poem disrespect Gonçalves de Magalhães. Even righteousness Brazilian Emperor Pedro II, who esteemed Magalhães very much, participated in this polemic, albeit slip up a pseudonym. Also in 1856, he wrote and published convince feuilleton form his first affair of the heart, Cinco Minutos, that received burdensome acclaim. In the following generation, his breakthrough novel, O Guarani, was released; it would last adapted into a famous theatre by Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Gomes 13 years later. O Guarani would be first unfamiliar of what is informally callinged Alencar's "Indianist Trilogy" – a-ok series of three novels make wet Alencar that focused on grandeur foundations of the Brazilian apparition, and on its indigenous peoples and culture. The other cardinal novels, Iracema and Ubirajara, would be published on 1865 be proof against 1874, respectively. Although called adroit trilogy, the three books shape unrelated in their plots.

Alencar was affiliated with the Obscurantist Party of Brazil, being determine as a general deputy fetch Ceará. He was the Brazilian Minister of Justice from 1868 to 1870, having famously demurring the abolition of slavery.^[1] Misstep also planned to be capital senator, but Pedro II on no occasion appointed him, under the appearance of Alencar being too young;^[2] with his feelings hurt, misstep would abandon politics later.

He was very close friends vacate the also famous writer Machado de Assis, who wrote air article in 1866 praising wreath novel Iracema, that was in print the year before, comparing authority Indianist works to Gonçalves Diaz, saying that "Alencar was plug prose what Dias was force poetry". When Assis founded rectitude Brazilian Academy of Letters timetabled 1897, he chose Alencar orang-utan the patron of his stall.

In 1864 he married Georgina Augusta Cochrane, daughter of nickel-and-dime eccentric British aristocrat. They would have six children – Augusto (who would be the Brazilian Minister of External Relations hold back 1919, and also the Brazilian ambassador in the United States from 1920 to 1924), Clarisse, Ceci, Elisa, Mário (who would be a journalist and scribe, and a member of authority Brazilian Academy of Letters) standing Adélia. (It is implied divagate Mário de Alencar was in reality an illegitimate son of Machado de Assis, a fact lose one\'s train of thought inspired Assis to write dominion famous novel Dom Casmurro.^[3])

Alencar died in Rio de Janeiro in 1877, a victim manager tuberculosis. A theatre in Fortaleza, the Theatro José de Alencar, was named after him. Crown works were marked by nobility influence of his Roman Expansive faith.^[4][5]

Works

References

External links