1353-JOÃO GUIMARÃES ROSA -English Poem -(38) SERIES CONTEMPORANEOUS

1353-JOÃO GUIMARÃES ROSA -English Poem (38) SERIES CONTEMPORANEOUS

Poem Number:1353.

by Sílvia Araújo Motta

John Guimarães Rosa

Was Brazilian novelist;

Probably the greatest

Brazilian novelist

Born In the 20th. Century.

He served as a volunter doctor

Of the Public Force

In the Constitucionalist

Revolution,1932.

Guimarães Rosa went

to Barbacena in 1933 in the

position of Capitain-Doctor

of the 9th Armed Battalion .

(Oficial Capitão-Médico do 9º

Batalhão de Infantaria).

Most of his life was spent

as a Brazilian Diplomat

in Europe and Latin America.

Guimarães Rosa was born

In Cordisburgo:27-June-1938,

In the state of Minas Gerais,

The first of six children

of Floduardo Pinto Rosa,

“Nickname” Seu Fulô,

and his mother Chiquitinha.

He had two daughters:

Vilma and Agnes Rosa.

Guimarães Rosa still a child,

he moved to his grandparents' house

in Belo Horizonte-Minas Gerais,

where he finished primary school.

He began his secondary schooling

at the Santo Antônio College

in São João del Rei-Minas Gerais.

but soon returned to Belo Horizonte,

to Medicine of Minas Gerais University.

Guimarães Rosa best-known

Works in the biggest novel:

“Grande Sertão-Veredas”

translated as the truth:

“The Devil to Pay

in the backlands”

the famous story

with many reality.

He was a humanist man.

The principal personage

In the novel is Riobard,

A good poet that makes

A dealwith Lucipher

In order to eliminate

Hermogenes from the

Backlands, a metaphor

for brazilian literature.

He wrote others books:

Caçador de Camurças,

Chronos Kai Anagke,

The mistery of Highmore

E Makiné(1929),Lava(1936)

Sagarana,the duel(1946).

Com o Vaqueiro Mariano:

With the Cowboy Mariano(1947)

Corpo de Baile (1956)

Grande Sertão: Veredas (1956)

Primeiras Estórias

(First Stories, 1962, made

into a movie called

“A Terceira Margem do Rio”

Tutaméia ? Terceiras Estórias (1967)

In memoriam: João Guimarães

Rosa (1968), posthumous

Estas Estórias e Ave, Palavra

(1969/1970, posthumous...

Guimarães Rosa spoke French

before he was seven years old!

Later spoke Portuguese, German,

Esperanto, English, Italian,

Swedish, Spanish, Russian,

Dutch, Greek, Tupi, Latin…

He wrotes others:Hungarian,

Arabic, Sanscrit,Finnish,

Czech,Hebrew,Polish…

He was chosen by unanimous

vote to enter the Brazilian

Academy of Letters/RJ. (1963)

in his second candidacy.

After postponing for 4 years,

he assumed his position

in 1967: just three days before

mysteriously passing away

after a big emotion,

from a heart attack.

He died:19-November-1967/RJ.

He was only 59 years.

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Note:

DONATION of Books about Guimarães Rosa.

FROM:

*Superintendent of Foundation Guimarães Rosa,Colonel:Álvaro AntônioNicolau(ALJGR/PMMG)

*Teacher Colonel: João Bosco de Castro(ALJGR/PMMG)

*Teacher Sílvia Araújo Motta(ALJGR/PMMG)

TO:

Congress Biblical International:

Cientistas da BÍBLIA E TEÓLOGOS da Europa, América Latina, Ásia e África.PALESTRANTES:Alemanha, Brasil, Itália, Líbano, Ghana, México, Colômbia, Holanda e outros na Tábula-Redonda.

DONATION: 25 Books of the Foundation Guimarães Rosa,

and one Glorioso Tormentório, both in Língua Portuguesa.

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