Alfredo Bosi
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Born | (1936-08-26)26 August 1936 Jabuti Prize |
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Education | University of São Paulo |
Thesis | Itinerario della Narrativa Pirandelliana (1964) |
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Alfredo Bosi (26 August 1936 – 7 April 2021) was a Brazilian
Life
Alfredo Bosi was born in São Paulo on 26 August 1936.[3] He was married to psychologist Ecléa Bosi, with whom he had two children.[3] His daughter, Viviana Bosi, is also an accomplished literary critic.
Bosi majored in Literature at University of São Paulo in 1960 and later studied in Italy. Following his studies, he took the chair of Italian literature at the same university, an office he held until 1970, when he became professor of Brazilian literature. Bosi occupied the Brazilian Chair of Sociological Sciences Sérgio Buarque de Holanda at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and was deputy-director of Institute for Advanced Researches of the University of São Paulo from 1987 to 1997, when he became director of the organization.[2]
Amongst other prizes, he was awarded the
Bosi died on 7 April 2021, in São Paulo, of COVID-19. He was 84.[4]
Selected bibliography
- Itinerario della Narrativa Pirandelliana (1964) (Doctoral Thesis)
- O Pré-Modernismo (1966) (Brazilian Pre-Modernism)
- O Ser e o Tempo da Poesia (1977) (The Time and the Being of Poetry)
- Céu, Inferno. Ensaios de Crítica Literária e Ideológica (1988) (Heaven, Hell. Essays of Literary and Ideological Criticism)
- Dialética da Colonização (1992) (Dialectics of Colonization)
- Machado de Assis. O Enigma do Olhar (1999) (Machado de Assis. The Puzzle of the Eye)
- Literatura e Resistência (2002) (Literature and Resistance)[5]
References
- ^ "Messejana e seu filho ilustre". Diário do Nordeste (in Portuguese). 1 May 2009. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
- ^ a b c "Biografia". Academia Brasileira de Letras (in Portuguese). 27 June 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Morre em São Paulo, aos 84 anos, o Acadêmico Alfredo Bosi". Academia Brasileira de Letras (in Portuguese). 7 April 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ "Morre Alfredo Bosi, um dos maiores críticos literários do Brasil, de Covid, aos 84 anos". 7 April 2021.
- ^ "Bibliografia de Alfredo Bosi" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 3 November 2016.
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