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Anunciação e encontro de Mira-Celi
Esta edição de Anunciação E Encontro De Mira-Celi reúne em um único volume Tempo e eternidade (1935), A túnica inconsútil (1938) e Anunciação e encontro de Mira-Celi, escrito em 1943 e publicado em 1950, representando a fase religiosa e cristã da obra poética de Jorge de Lima.
320 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
About the author
Jorge de Lima
29 books10 followersJorge Mateus de Lima, was a Brazilian politician, poet, and writer. His most famous works are the novels "A Mulher Obscura" and "Calunga"; and "A Túnica Inconsútil" and "A Invenção de Orfeu" (poetry). He was in a list and would win the Nobel Prize in 1958, but he died in 1953.
He was the son of a wealthy merchant and moved to Maceió in 1902, with his mother and siblings. In 1909 he moved to Salvador, where he began studying medicine. Completed the course in Rio de Janeiro in 1914, but was designed as a poet to his name. That same year he published the first book, Alexandrine XIV. He returned to Maceió in 1915 where he devoted himself to medicine, and literature and politics. When he moved to Alagoas to Rio in 1930 set up an office in Cinelandia, also turned to studio painting and meeting point for intellectuals. There was meeting people like Murilo Mendes, Graciliano Ramos and Jose Lins do Rego. In this period he published about ten books, five of poetry. Also served as state representative from 1918 to 1922. With the Revolution of 1930 was brought to settle down permanently in Rio de Janeiro.
In 1939 he devoted himself also to the arts, participating in some exhibitions. In 1952, he published his most important book, the epic Invention of Orpheus. In 1953, months before he died, he recorded poems for the Archive of the Spoken Word Library of Congress in Washington, the United States of America.
Between 1937 and 1945 had its application to the Brazilian Academy of Letters refused six times. For Ivan Junqueira, the Academy has committed an unforgivable injustice to the author, whose literary work was exceptionally well received by critics and public. The scholar does not believe that the poet was carried forward to the edge of the literature of his time and he says, when referring to the greatest poem of the author - Invention of Orpheus, "... even today, more junk spent 50 years of its publication, there is no Brazilian poet that he did not remember. "
He was the son of a wealthy merchant and moved to Maceió in 1902, with his mother and siblings. In 1909 he moved to Salvador, where he began studying medicine. Completed the course in Rio de Janeiro in 1914, but was designed as a poet to his name. That same year he published the first book, Alexandrine XIV. He returned to Maceió in 1915 where he devoted himself to medicine, and literature and politics. When he moved to Alagoas to Rio in 1930 set up an office in Cinelandia, also turned to studio painting and meeting point for intellectuals. There was meeting people like Murilo Mendes, Graciliano Ramos and Jose Lins do Rego. In this period he published about ten books, five of poetry. Also served as state representative from 1918 to 1922. With the Revolution of 1930 was brought to settle down permanently in Rio de Janeiro.
In 1939 he devoted himself also to the arts, participating in some exhibitions. In 1952, he published his most important book, the epic Invention of Orpheus. In 1953, months before he died, he recorded poems for the Archive of the Spoken Word Library of Congress in Washington, the United States of America.
Between 1937 and 1945 had its application to the Brazilian Academy of Letters refused six times. For Ivan Junqueira, the Academy has committed an unforgivable injustice to the author, whose literary work was exceptionally well received by critics and public. The scholar does not believe that the poet was carried forward to the edge of the literature of his time and he says, when referring to the greatest poem of the author - Invention of Orpheus, "... even today, more junk spent 50 years of its publication, there is no Brazilian poet that he did not remember. "
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