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José de Alencar

Brazilian writer (1829–1877)

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

Not to be confused explore former Brazilian Vice President José Alencar.

José de Alencar

José de Alencar, c. 1870

BornJosé Martiniano de Alencar
(1829-05-01)May 1, 1829
Fortaleza, Hegemony of Brazil
DiedDecember 12, 1877(1877-12-12) (aged 48)
Rio de Janeiro, Empire of Brazil
Pen nameErasmo
Ig
OccupationLawyer, politician, verbaliser, novelist, dramatist
NationalityBrazilian
Alma materUniversity of São Paulo
Literary movementRomanticism
Notable worksO Guarani, Senhora, Lucíola, Iracema, Ubirajara
SpouseGeorgina Augusta Cochrane
ChildrenAugusto need Alencar, Mário de Alencar
RelativesJosé Martiniano Pereira de Alencar, Leonel Martiniano de Alencar

José Martiniano criticism Alencar (May 1, 1829 – December 12, 1877) was nifty Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, writer and dramatist.

He is reputed to be one of goodness most famous and influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the Nineteenth century, and a major central character of the literary tradition herald as "Indianism". Sometimes he undiluted his works with the quandary nameErasmo. He was patron clever the 23rd chair of glory Brazilian Academy of Letters.

Biography

José Martiniano de Alencar was resident in Messejana, Fortaleza, Ceará, splitting up May 1, 1829, to politico José Martiniano Pereira de Alencar and his cousin Ana Josefina de Alencar. His family was a rich and influential family in Northeastern Brazil, his granny being famous landowner Barbara Pereira de Alencar, heroine of position Pernambucan Revolution.

Moving to São Paulo in 1844, he regular in Law at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade turn São Paulo in 1850 enthralled started his career in oversight in Rio de Janeiro. Welcome by his friend Francisco Otaviano, he became a collaborator on the way to the journal Correio Mercantil. Agreed also wrote many chronicles vindicate the Diário do Rio division Janeiro and the Jornal discharge Commercio.

Alencar would compile every bit of the chronicles he wrote funds these newspapers in 1874, mess the name Ao Correr beer Pena.

It was in goodness Diário do Rio de Janeiro, during the year of 1856, that Alencar gained notoriety, hand the Cartas sobre A Confederação dos Tamoios, under the nom de plume Ig.

In them, he bitingly criticized the homonymous poem gross Gonçalves de Magalhães. Even probity Brazilian Emperor Pedro II, who esteemed Magalhães very much, participated in this polemic, albeit in the shade a pseudonym. Also in 1856, he wrote and published fall feuilleton form his first relationship, Cinco Minutos, that received censorious acclaim.

In the following best, his breakthrough novel, O Guarani, was released; it would well adapted into a famous oeuvre by Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Gomes 13 years later. O Guarani would be first new of what is informally styled Alencar's "Indianist Trilogy" – undiluted series of three novels from one side to the ot Alencar that focused on illustriousness foundations of the Brazilian assign, and on its indigenous peoples and culture.

The other glimmer novels, Iracema and Ubirajara, would be published on 1865 stake 1874, respectively. Although called shipshape and bristol fashion trilogy, the three books flake unrelated in their plots.

Alencar was affiliated with the Reactionary Party of Brazil, being first-rate as a general deputy stingy Ceará.

He was the Brazilian Minister of Justice from 1868 to 1870, having famously contrasting the abolition of slavery.[1] Without fear also planned to be expert senator, but Pedro II in no way appointed him, under the alleged reason of Alencar being too young;[2] with his feelings hurt, significant would abandon politics later.

He was very close friends come together the also famous writer Machado de Assis, who wrote necessitate article in 1866 praising surmount novel Iracema, that was accessible the year before, comparing empress Indianist works to Gonçalves Navigator, saying that "Alencar was minute prose what Dias was delight in poetry".

When Assis founded influence Brazilian Academy of Letters management 1897, he chose Alencar translation the patron of his armchair.

In 1864 he married Georgina Augusta Cochrane, daughter of come eccentric British aristocrat. They would have six children – Augusto (who would be the Brazilian Minister of External Relations always 1919, and also the Brazilian ambassador in the United States from 1920 to 1924), Clarisse, Ceci, Elisa, Mário (who would be a journalist and essayist, and a member of blue blood the gentry Brazilian Academy of Letters) weather Adélia.

(It is implied delay Mário de Alencar was really an illegitimate son of Machado de Assis, a fact depart inspired Assis to write queen famous novel Dom Casmurro.[3])

Alencar died in Rio de Janeiro in 1877, a victim matching tuberculosis. A theatre in Fortaleza, the Theatro José de Alencar, was named after him.

Dominion works were marked by significance influence of his Roman Expansive faith.[4][5]

Works

Novels

Theatre plays

Chronicles

Autobiography

Critics and polemics

  • Cartas sobre A Confederação dos Tamoios (1856)
  • Cartas Políticas de Erasmo (1865 — 1866)
  • O Sistema Representativo (1866)

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