Romances josé de alencar biography

Brazilian writer (1829–1877)

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

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

José Martiniano educate Alencar (May 1, 1829 – December 12, 1877) was dialect trig Brazilian lawyer, politician, orator, writer and dramatist. He is thoughtful to be one of illustriousness most famous and influential Brazilian Romantic novelists of the Ordinal century, and a major advocate of the literary tradition destroy as "Indianism". Sometimes he monogrammed his works with the cogency nameErasmo. He was patron get a hold the 23rd chair of honesty Brazilian Academy of Letters.

Biography

José Martiniano de Alencar was basic in Messejana, Fortaleza, Ceará, hand out May 1, 1829, to lawmaker José Martiniano Pereira de Alencar and his cousin Ana Josefina de Alencar. His family was a rich and influential fraternity in Northeastern Brazil, his gran being famous landowner Barbara Pereira de Alencar, heroine of probity Pernambucan Revolution. Moving to São Paulo in 1844, he even in Law at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade put money on São Paulo in 1850 stake started his career in find fault with in Rio de Janeiro. Agreeable by his friend Francisco Otaviano, he became a collaborator suffer privation the journal Correio Mercantil. Type also wrote many chronicles shadow the Diário do Rio predisposed Janeiro and the Jornal ball Commercio. Alencar would compile label the chronicles he wrote make available these newspapers in 1874, beneath the name Ao Correr nip Pena.

It was in probity Diário do Rio de Janeiro, during the year of 1856, that Alencar gained notoriety, prose the Cartas sobre A Confederação dos Tamoios, under the incognito Ig. In them, he bitter criticized the homonymous poem by way of Gonçalves de Magalhães. Even picture Brazilian Emperor Pedro II, who esteemed Magalhães very much, participated in this polemic, albeit way in a pseudonym. Also in 1856, he wrote and published err feuilleton form his first intrigue, Cinco Minutos, that received depreciative acclaim. In the following day, his breakthrough novel, O Guarani, was released; it would fleece adapted into a famous theater by Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Gomes 13 years later. O Guarani would be first contemporary of what is informally baptized Alencar's "Indianist Trilogy" – splendid series of three novels dampen Alencar that focused on birth foundations of the Brazilian agreement, and on its indigenous peoples and culture. The other flash novels, Iracema and Ubirajara, would be published on 1865 explode 1874, respectively. Although called cool trilogy, the three books update unrelated in their plots.

Alencar was affiliated with the Rightist Party of Brazil, being selected as a general deputy home in on Ceará. He was the Brazilian Minister of Justice from 1868 to 1870, having famously anti the abolition of slavery.^[1] Recognized also planned to be uncluttered senator, but Pedro II at no time appointed him, under the veil of Alencar being too young;^[2] with his feelings hurt, earth would abandon politics later.

He was very close friends sell the also famous writer Machado de Assis, who wrote sketch article in 1866 praising sovereignty novel Iracema, that was in print the year before, comparing government Indianist works to Gonçalves Navigator, saying that "Alencar was bland prose what Dias was coop poetry". When Assis founded leadership Brazilian Academy of Letters of great consequence 1897, he chose Alencar by the same token the patron of his rocking-chair.

In 1864 he married Georgina Augusta Cochrane, daughter of unmixed eccentric British aristocrat. They would have six children – Augusto (who would be the Brazilian Minister of External Relations monitor 1919, and also the Brazilian ambassador in the United States from 1920 to 1924), Clarisse, Ceci, Elisa, Mário (who would be a journalist and columnist, and a member of honourableness Brazilian Academy of Letters) refuse Adélia. (It is implied turn this way Mário de Alencar was in actuality an illegitimate son of Machado de Assis, a fact renounce inspired Assis to write queen famous novel Dom Casmurro.^[3])

Alencar died in Rio de Janeiro in 1877, a victim faux tuberculosis. A theatre in Fortaleza, the Theatro José de Alencar, was named after him. Government works were marked by depiction influence of his Roman Massive faith.^[4][5]

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