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João Cabral de Melo Neto

February 15, 2024

For other people named João Neto, see João Neto (disambiguation).
In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Cabral and the second or paternal family name is de Melo. "Neto" is a generational suffix meaning "grandson", which is used for someone whose name is the same as their father and grandfather, like "III" in English.

João Cabral de Melo Neto (January 6, 1920 – October 9, 1999) was a Brazilian poet and diplomat, and one of the most influential writers in late Brazilian modernism. He was awarded the 1990 Camões Prize and the 1992 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the only Brazilian poet to receive such award to date. He was considered until his death a perennial competitor for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[1]

João Cabral de Melo Neto
BornJoão Cabral de Melo Neto
(1920-01-06)6 January 1920
Recife, Brazil
Died9 October 1999(1999-10-09) (aged 79)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
OccupationWriter
Notable awardsCamões Prize
1990
Neustadt International Prize for Literature
1992

Melo Neto's works are noted for the rigorous, yet inventive attention they pay to the formal aspects of poetry. He derives his characteristic sound from a traditional verse of five or seven syllables (called ‘’redondilha’’) and from the constant use of oblique rhymes. His style ranges from the surrealist tendency which marked his early poetry to the use of regional elements of his native northeastern Brazil. In many works, including the famed auto Morte e Vida Severina, Melo Neto's addresses the life of those affected by the poverty and inequality in Pernambuco.

Life and career edit

Melo Neto was born in Recife, Pernambuco, and spent most of his youth in his family's sugar-cane mills in the interior of the state.[2] He was a cousin of distinguished poet Manuel Bandeira and sociologist Gilberto Freyre. In 1940, his family moved to Rio de Janeiro.

Two years later, Melo Neto published his first book of poems, Pedra do Sono, from his own expense, with a circulation of 340 copies.[3] In 1945, he applied to the post of diplomat, a position he would hold for most of his life. The following year, he married Stella Maria Barbosa de Oliveira, with whom he had five children.

After passing through several different countries, he became consul of Brazil in Porto in 1984, only returning to Rio de Janeiro three years later. He worked for many years in Spain, and his experiences in Seville would leave palpable influences in his poetry.

In 1956, Melo Neto published his most famous work, Morte e Vida Severina, and, in 1968, he was elected to the 37th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.[2]

In 1986, he married Marly de Oliveira and, two years later, he retired, resigning from his office as ambassador. Melo Neto died in 1999, in Rio de Janeiro.[3] In a career spanning more than fifty years, Melo Neto published 18 books of poetry and two plays.[4]

Poetry edit

Poetry is not the product of inspiration triggered by feeling, but the product of the poet's patient and lucid work.[5]

The image of an engineer designing a building, an epithet Melo Neto himself adopted, is often used to describe his poetry. From the start, his poetry was extraordinarily rich in imagery. Commenting Pedra do Sono, his first book, Antonio Candido, who noted his debt to cubism and surrealism, observed how his poems were composed from the accumulation of concrete and sensory images, using words in an almost pictorial manner.[6]

Quickly, however, he proved highly attentive to the social reality of his state. In O cão sem plumas (“A Dog without Feathers”)’, his first long poem, dated from 1950, he portrayed the lives of the destitute classes, who depended on the Capibaribe River, and described the toiling of the sugar-cane mill. Three years later, in O Rio (“The River”) he assumed the voice of the river, narrating in first-person its course and the villages and landscapes it crossed.[7]

Clarifying his debts to Melo Neto, Augusto de Campos has said: “One might say that he has no antecedents in Brazilian poetry, but his work has consequences. It is Concrete poetry that will sustain, continue, expand and broaden this poetic language that is not sentimental, but objective, a poetry of concretude, a critical poetry, as João's poetry is.”[8]

Works edit

Poetry edit

  • 1942: Pedra do Sono (Slumber Stone)
  • 1943: Os Três Mal-Amados (The Three Unloved)
  • 1945: O Engenheiro (The Engineer)
  • 1947: Psicologia da Composição com a Fábula de Anfion e Antiode (Psychology of Composition with the Fable of Amphion and Anti-Ode)
  • 1950: O Cão sem Plumas (The Dog without Feathers)
  • 1953: O Rio ou Relação da Viagem que Faz o Capibaribe de Sua Nascente à Cidade do Recife (The River or On the Course of the Capibaribe River from Its Source to the City of Recife)
  • 1960: Dois Parlamentos (Two Parliaments)
  • 1960: Quaderna
  • 1966: A Educação pela Pedra (Education by the Stone)
  • 1975: Museu de Tudo (Museum of Everything)
  • 1980: A Escola das Facas (The School of the Knives)
  • 1985: Agrestes
  • 1987: Crime na Calle Relator (Crime in Relator Street)
  • 1990: Primeiros Poemas (First Poems)
  • 1990: Sevilha Andando (Walking around Seville)

Autos edit

Further reading edit

English

  • Education by Stone: Selected Poems / João Cabral de Melo Neto; translated by Richard Zenith, 2005
  • Selected Poetry, 1937-1990 / João Cabral de Melo Neto; translated by Djelal Kadir, 1994
  • The Aesthetics of the Object in the Poetry of João Cabral de Melo Neto / Marta Peixoto, 1977
  • The Poem and the Canvas: Pictorial Implications in the Works of João Cabral de Melo Neto / Danilo Pinto Lôbo, 1972
  • João Cabral de Melo Neto / Benedito Nunes, 1971

Portuguese

  • João Cabral de Melo Neto e a Estratégia do Equilíbrio / Stephen Bocskay, 2013
  • João Cabral de Melo Neto : o homem sem alma; Diário de tudo / José Castello., 2006
  • Tradição e ruptura: João Cabral de Melo Neto em Barcelona, 1947-1950 / Nicolás Fernández-Medina., 2005.
  • Os signos de uma educação : a água e a pedra na poética de João Cabral de Melo Neto / Walter Filho., 2003
  • O poeta e a mídia : Carlos Drummond de Andrade e João Cabral de Melo Neto / Fábio Lucas., 2002
  • O poema no sistema : a peculiaridade do antilírico João Cabral na poesia brasileira / Homero Araújo., 2002
  • João Cabral e o poema dramático, Auto do frade / Níobe Abreu Peixoto., 2001
  • João Cabral de Melo Neto / João Alexandre Barbosa., 2001
  • A poesia crítica de João Cabral de Melo Neto / Helton Gonçalves de Souza., 1999
  • João Cabral : a poesia do menos e outros ensaios cabralinos / Antonio Carlos Secchin., 1999
  • João Cabral de Melo Neto : o homem sem alma / José Castello., 1996
  • A bailadora andaluza : a explosão do sagrado na poesia de João Cabral / Waldecy Tenório., 1996
  • João Cabral em perspectiva / Maria do Carmo Campos., 1995
  • Lira e antilira : Mário, Drummond, Cabral / Luiz Costa Lima., 1995
  • Manuel e João : dois poetas pernambucanos / Assis Brasil., 1990
  • Idéias fixas de João Cabral de Melo Neto / Félix de Athayde., 1998
  • A Viagem ou Itinerário que fez João Cabral de Melo Neto do Racionalismo ao Materialismo Dialético / Félix de Athayde., 2000

Spanish

  • Piedra fundamental : poesia y prosa / João Cabral de Melo Neto., 2002
  • A la medida de la mano / Angel Crespo., 1994

References edit

  1. ^ "João Cabral de Melo Neto: Biography and Poems | Brazilian Poetry". Retrieved 2021-05-28.
  2. ^ a b ""João Cabral de Melo Neto, Biografia"". Academia Brasileira de Letras (in Portuguese). Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  3. ^ a b ""João Cabral de Melo Neto"". Lúcia Gaspar (in Portuguese). 28 August 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  4. ^ ""Poesia Concreta e Visual"". Casa do Bruxo. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  5. ^ A poesia não é fruto de inspiração em razão do sentimento”, mas o “fruto do trabalho paciente e lúcido do poeta”. Quoted in: http://www.reciclazaro.org.br/conheca-a-historia-do-poeta-brasileiro-joao-cabral-de-melo-neto/
  6. ^ Candido, Antonio. Poesia ao norte. ‘’Remate De Males’’, 2012, accessed 21 October 2019. Originally published in 1943
  7. ^ "João Cabral de Melo Neto". Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  8. ^ "Pode-se dizer que ele não tem antecedentes na poesia brasileira, a obra dele tem conseqüentes. Porque é a poesia concreta que vai manter, continuar, expandir e levar para outros caminhos essa linhagem de uma poesia não sentimental, de uma poesia objetiva, uma poesia de concretude, uma poesia crítica, como é a poesia de João." Quoted in: ""Poesia Concreta e Visual"". Casa do Bruxo. Retrieved 9 October 2016.

External links edit

  • Academia Brasileira de Letras profile of João Cabral de Melo Neto
  • Encyclopædia Britannica Joao Cabral de Melo Neto
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Occupant of the 37th chair of the
Brazilian Academy of Letters
1968–1999 		Succeeded by

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For other people named Joao Neto see Joao Neto disambiguation In this Portuguese name the first or maternal family name is Cabral and the second or paternal family name is de Melo Neto is a generational suffix meaning grandson which is used for someone whose name is the same as their father and grandfather like III in English Joao Cabral de Melo Neto January 6 1920 October 9 1999 was a Brazilian poet and diplomat and one of the most influential writers in late Brazilian modernism He was awarded the 1990 Camoes Prize and the 1992 Neustadt International Prize for Literature the only Brazilian poet to receive such award to date He was considered until his death a perennial competitor for the Nobel Prize in Literature 1 Joao Cabral de Melo NetoBornJoao Cabral de Melo Neto 1920 01 06 6 January 1920Recife BrazilDied9 October 1999 1999 10 09 aged 79 Rio de Janeiro BrazilOccupationWriterNotable awardsCamoes Prize 1990 Neustadt International Prize for Literature 1992Melo Neto s works are noted for the rigorous yet inventive attention they pay to the formal aspects of poetry He derives his characteristic sound from a traditional verse of five or seven syllables called redondilha and from the constant use of oblique rhymes His style ranges from the surrealist tendency which marked his early poetry to the use of regional elements of his native northeastern Brazil In many works including the famed auto Morte e Vida Severina Melo Neto s addresses the life of those affected by the poverty and inequality in Pernambuco Contents 1 Life and career 2 Poetry 3 Works 3 1 Poetry 3 2 Autos 4 Further reading 5 References 6 External linksLife and career editMelo Neto was born in Recife Pernambuco and spent most of his youth in his family s sugar cane mills in the interior of the state 2 He was a cousin of distinguished poet Manuel Bandeira and sociologist Gilberto Freyre In 1940 his family moved to Rio de Janeiro Two years later Melo Neto published his first book of poems Pedra do Sono from his own expense with a circulation of 340 copies 3 In 1945 he applied to the post of diplomat a position he would hold for most of his life The following year he married Stella Maria Barbosa de Oliveira with whom he had five children After passing through several different countries he became consul of Brazil in Porto in 1984 only returning to Rio de Janeiro three years later He worked for many years in Spain and his experiences in Seville would leave palpable influences in his poetry In 1956 Melo Neto published his most famous work Morte e Vida Severina and in 1968 he was elected to the 37th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters 2 In 1986 he married Marly de Oliveira and two years later he retired resigning from his office as ambassador Melo Neto died in 1999 in Rio de Janeiro 3 In a career spanning more than fifty years Melo Neto published 18 books of poetry and two plays 4 Poetry editPoetry is not the product of inspiration triggered by feeling but the product of the poet s patient and lucid work 5 The image of an engineer designing a building an epithet Melo Neto himself adopted is often used to describe his poetry From the start his poetry was extraordinarily rich in imagery Commenting Pedra do Sono his first book Antonio Candido who noted his debt to cubism and surrealism observed how his poems were composed from the accumulation of concrete and sensory images using words in an almost pictorial manner 6 Quickly however he proved highly attentive to the social reality of his state In O cao sem plumas A Dog without Feathers his first long poem dated from 1950 he portrayed the lives of the destitute classes who depended on the Capibaribe River and described the toiling of the sugar cane mill Three years later in O Rio The River he assumed the voice of the river narrating in first person its course and the villages and landscapes it crossed 7 Clarifying his debts to Melo Neto Augusto de Campos has said One might say that he has no antecedents in Brazilian poetry but his work has consequences It is Concrete poetry that will sustain continue expand and broaden this poetic language that is not sentimental but objective a poetry of concretude a critical poetry as Joao s poetry is 8 Works editPoetry edit 1942 Pedra do Sono Slumber Stone 1943 Os Tres Mal Amados The Three Unloved 1945 O Engenheiro The Engineer 1947 Psicologia da Composicao com a Fabula de Anfion e Antiode Psychology of Composition with the Fable of Amphion and Anti Ode 1950 O Cao sem Plumas The Dog without Feathers 1953 O Rio ou Relacao da Viagem que Faz o Capibaribe de Sua Nascente a Cidade do Recife The River or On the Course of the Capibaribe River from Its Source to the City of Recife 1960 Dois Parlamentos Two Parliaments 1960 Quaderna 1966 A Educacao pela Pedra Education by the Stone 1975 Museu de Tudo Museum of Everything 1980 A Escola das Facas The School of the Knives 1985 Agrestes 1987 Crime na Calle Relator Crime in Relator Street 1990 Primeiros Poemas First Poems 1990 Sevilha Andando Walking around Seville Autos edit 1955 Morte e Vida Severina translated in part by Elizabeth Bishop as Life and Death of a Severino 1984 Auto do Frade Auto of the Frair Further reading editEnglish Education by Stone Selected Poems Joao Cabral de Melo Neto translated by Richard Zenith 2005 Selected Poetry 1937 1990 Joao Cabral de Melo Neto translated by Djelal Kadir 1994 The Aesthetics of the Object in the Poetry of Joao Cabral de Melo Neto Marta Peixoto 1977 The Poem and the Canvas Pictorial Implications in the Works of Joao Cabral de Melo Neto Danilo Pinto Lobo 1972 Joao Cabral de Melo Neto Benedito Nunes 1971Portuguese Joao Cabral de Melo Neto e a Estrategia do Equilibrio Stephen Bocskay 2013 Joao Cabral de Melo Neto o homem sem alma Diario de tudo Jose Castello 2006 Tradicao e ruptura Joao Cabral de Melo Neto em Barcelona 1947 1950 Nicolas Fernandez Medina 2005 Os signos de uma educacao a agua e a pedra na poetica de Joao Cabral de Melo Neto Walter Filho 2003 O poeta e a midia Carlos Drummond de Andrade e Joao Cabral de Melo Neto Fabio Lucas 2002 O poema no sistema a peculiaridade do antilirico Joao Cabral na poesia brasileira Homero Araujo 2002 Joao Cabral e o poema dramatico Auto do frade Niobe Abreu Peixoto 2001 Joao Cabral de Melo Neto Joao Alexandre Barbosa 2001 A poesia critica de Joao Cabral de Melo Neto Helton Goncalves de Souza 1999 Joao Cabral a poesia do menos e outros ensaios cabralinos Antonio Carlos Secchin 1999 Joao Cabral de Melo Neto o homem sem alma Jose Castello 1996 A bailadora andaluza a explosao do sagrado na poesia de Joao Cabral Waldecy Tenorio 1996 Joao Cabral em perspectiva Maria do Carmo Campos 1995 Lira e antilira Mario Drummond Cabral Luiz Costa Lima 1995 Manuel e Joao dois poetas pernambucanos Assis Brasil 1990 Ideias fixas de Joao Cabral de Melo Neto Felix de Athayde 1998 A Viagem ou Itinerario que fez Joao Cabral de Melo Neto do Racionalismo ao Materialismo Dialetico Felix de Athayde 2000Spanish Piedra fundamental poesia y prosa Joao Cabral de Melo Neto 2002 A la medida de la mano Angel Crespo 1994References edit Joao Cabral de Melo Neto Biography and Poems Brazilian Poetry Retrieved 2021 05 28 a b Joao Cabral de Melo Neto Biografia Academia Brasileira de Letras in Portuguese Retrieved 9 October 2016 a b Joao Cabral de Melo Neto Lucia Gaspar in Portuguese 28 August 2009 Retrieved 9 October 2016 Poesia Concreta e Visual Casa do Bruxo Retrieved 9 October 2016 A poesia nao e fruto de inspiracao em razao do sentimento mas o fruto do trabalho paciente e lucido do poeta Quoted in http www reciclazaro org br conheca a historia do poeta brasileiro joao cabral de melo neto Candido Antonio Poesia ao norte Remate De Males 2012 accessed 21 October 2019 Originally published in 1943 Joao Cabral de Melo Neto Enciclopedia Itau Cultural Retrieved 20 October 2019 Pode se dizer que ele nao tem antecedentes na poesia brasileira a obra dele tem consequentes Porque e a poesia concreta que vai manter continuar expandir e levar para outros caminhos essa linhagem de uma poesia nao sentimental de uma poesia objetiva uma poesia de concretude uma poesia critica como e a poesia de Joao Quoted in Poesia Concreta e Visual Casa do Bruxo Retrieved 9 October 2016 External links editAcademia Brasileira de Letras profile of Joao Cabral de Melo Neto Encyclopaedia Britannica Joao Cabral de Melo NetoAcademic officesPreceded byAssis Chateaubriand nbsp Occupant of the 37th chair of theBrazilian Academy of Letters1968 1999 Succeeded byIvan Junqueira Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Joao Cabral de Melo Neto amp oldid 1169330551, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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