José de Alencar
José de Alencar | |
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Nationality | Brazilian |
Alma mater | University of São Paulo |
Literary movement | Romanticism |
Notable works | O Guarani, Senhora, Lucíola, Iracema, Ubirajara |
Spouse | Georgina Augusta Cochrane |
Children | Augusto de Alencar, Mário de Alencar |
Relatives | José Martiniano Pereira de Alencar, Leonel Martiniano de Alencar |
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José Martiniano de Alencar (May 1, 1829 – December 12, 1877) was a Brazilian
Biography
José Martiniano de Alencar was born in Messejana,
It was in the Diário do Rio de Janeiro, during the year of 1856, that Alencar gained notoriety, writing the Cartas sobre A Confederação dos Tamoios, under the pseudonym Ig. In them, he bitterly criticized the
Alencar was affiliated with the Conservative Party of Brazil, being elected as a general deputy for Ceará. He was the Brazilian Minister of Justice from 1868 to 1870, having famously opposed the abolition of slavery.[1] He also planned to be a senator, but Pedro II never appointed him, under the pretext of Alencar being too young;[2] with his feelings hurt, he would abandon politics later.
He was very close friends with the also famous writer Machado de Assis, who wrote an article in 1866 praising his novel Iracema, that was published the year before, comparing his Indianist works to Gonçalves Dias, saying that "Alencar was in prose what Dias was in poetry". When Assis founded the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1897, he chose Alencar as the patron of his chair.
In 1864 he married Georgina Augusta Cochrane, daughter of an eccentric British aristocrat. They would have six children –
Alencar died in Rio de Janeiro in 1877, a victim of tuberculosis. A theatre in Fortaleza, the Theatro José de Alencar, was named after him. His works were marked by the influence of his Roman Catholic faith.[4][5]
Works
Novels
- Cinco Minutos (1856)
- A Viuvinha (1857)
- O Guarani (1857)
- Lucíola (1862)
- Diva (1864)
- Iracema (1865)
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- O Gaúcho (1870)
- A Pata da Gazela (1870)
- O Tronco do Ipê (1871)
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- Til (1871)
- Sonhos d'Ouro (1872)
- Alfarrábios (1873)
- Ubirajara (1874)
- O Sertanejo (1875)
- Senhora (1875)
- Encarnação (1893 — posthumous)
Theatre plays
- O Crédito (1857)
- Verso e Reverso (1857)
- O Demônio Familiar (1857)
- As Asas de um Anjo (1858)
- Mãe (1860)
- A Expiação (1867)
- O Jesuíta (1875)
Chronicles
Autobiography
Critics and polemics
References
- ^ "Cartas a favor da escravidão | Hedra". www.hedra.com.br. Archived from the original on 2017-03-05.
- ^ RODRIGUES, Antonio Edmilson Martins; FALCON, Francisco José Calazans. José de Alencar: O Poeta Armado do Século XIX. [S.l.]: FGV Editora, 2001.
- ^ Mário de Alencar: Machado de Assis' son? Archived 2008-10-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
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- S2CID 229000993.
External links
- Portuguese Wikiquote has quotations related to: José de Alencar
- Works by José Martiniano de Alencar at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about José de Alencar at Internet Archive
- Works by José de Alencar at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- José de Alencar's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (in Portuguese)
- A biography of Alencar at the official site of Messejana (in Portuguese)