Quem foi Carolina Maria de Jesus? Conheça to life and work of the author of Quarto de Despejo

Carolina Maria de Jesus was a very important Brazilian writer in no country, producing a work with a strong burden of social denouncement and a story about her survival.

Through her spontaneous writing, simple and true, Carolina narrou as dores e difficulties de uma Black woman, poor, more than three filhos and single living in the Canindé favela, we were 50 years old, in São Paul.

As the first black writer of the highest standing in no country, she won fame in the 60's with a publication of the book Clearance room: diary of a favelada. A work ganhou reconhecimento all over the world, being translated into more than 14 languages.

Biography of Carolina Maria de Jesus

Carolina Maria de Jesus was born on March 14, 1914, born in Sacramento, Minas Gerais. Seus avós of her were victims of the scraping and her mother was a humble lavadeira, more than 7 filhos.

With the help of Maria Leite Monteiro de Barros, a few patrons of her mother, Carolina has attended the Alan Kardec school for 2 years, or enough to become literate and take a taste of reading.

Her family began to grow up to quality of life in 1924, when she moved to the city of Lageado (MG), where she worked in Roça, more logo returned to Sacramento in 1927.

Carolina moved to São Paulo at the end of two years 40 and went to reside in the favela do Canindé. Nessa epoch, the city was modernizing, and the first favelas began to emerge.

Assim, Carolina raises sozinha seus três filhos, João José de Jesus, José Carlos de Jesus and Vera Eunice de Jesus Lima. Its little renda province gives a bandage of recycled materials that the catava nas ruas da city.

Curious and intelligent, she enjoys all the books that chegavam has attached to her. Logo, she also passed on to save, keeping a diary on the contava of her daily life, difficulties, scraps and reflections on life in a poor community.

Em meados da fifties, or day laborer Audálio Dantas he knows and is interested in his history. It had been scaled to produce a material about Canindé and the item contacted by Carolina, which I have shown her daily.

Assim was born to a partnership that would give origin to the first free, Quarto de despejo: diary of a favelada. As of publication, and with its enormous success not in Brazil and abroad, the writer can move-favela develops. She later released other books and attached the same musical album with her own compositions, in 1961.

Despite the loss of poverty, Carolina has not been able to maintain or maintain money that does not end in life and will go through financial difficulties.

A writer died due to a respiratory insufficiency on February 13, 1977, at the age of 62, in the place where she lived, on the outskirts of São Paulo. Unfortunately, at this time she was not already skeptical of the public and the media.

Filhos by Carolina de Jesus

Carolina teve três filhos. Or first, João José de Jesus, born in 1948. Two years after, in 1950, from birth to José Carlos. In 1953, Vera Eunice was born.

All of her filhos are the result of relationships with parents that do not assume parentage. Assim, Carolina raised you totally sozinha.

A filha Vera Eunice formed a teacher and told a video below a little about the life and personalities of her mother.

Books by Carolina Maria de Jesus

Carolina's production was not very long in life. Meanwhile, depois de sua morte de her, some works were launched. You will free gather some two various texts left by her. See quais são as most important publications of the writer.

Books published in life

Quarto de Despejo: diary of a favelada (1960)

This is the first and most important book by Carolina. From the fact that the writer became aware and could tell the world what her life as a favelada was like, alone, black and paper taster, a fairly common reality for a large plot of the population Brazilian.

Clearance Quarter It represents a framework in the life of the author, apart from being also a divider of waters in national literature or to give a voice for a figure that is also margem da society.

Casa de Alvenaria: diary of an ex-favelada (1961)

Or second book by Carolina Maria foi Alvenaria House, which counts as her insertion in another social class, after having sold many copies of Clearance Quarter. Here, she explains her joys for the conquest of her house of tijolos and also her frustrations for having been killed and rejected in a certain way.

Carolina also counts her conversations with "important" people such as politicians and intellectuals. Unfortunately this free was not oily and sold few exemplary, I have just one edition.

Pedaços de Fome (1963)

Em Pedaços de Fome, We were presented with a fictional narrative that exposes the story of a moça branca, of boa condição financeira It is the filha of a colonel, who is turned off by a raptor who deceives himself, calling himself a dentist and promising him a life.

Assim, the protagonist gets married and ends up living in a country house, has needs and is helped by black and humble women as she establishes a friendship relationship.

This romance also does not have great repercussions. In the meantime, this work has been constructed tracing a plot that is tied together and prepared to interpret the world through the middle of the other.

Proverbs (1963)

Nesse, little book, Carolina presents a selection of thoughts. She understands publication as a way to contribute to the exercise of reflection in society.

Assim like you two previous, Proverbs also do not reach projeção.

Posthumous books

Diário de Bitita (1977)

When Diário de Bitita was published, Carolina Maria has passed away. This is a compilation of autobiographical writings present in various newspapers that the author mantinha.

Nesse livro, are presented memories from his childhood I tied to youth. It traced a line of her life through her personal writings that allows the perception of many social problems, such as racism, to explore and oppression.

Pessoal Anthology (1996)

This is the most compiled of Carolina's writings, plus a focus on her poetry. O responsável pela publicação é José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy.

It is worth mentioning that Carolina herself enxergava-se as a poet and when she knows or a day laborer than "descobriu" I showed his production of poems and other writings, more than that, attention from Audálio Dantas foram daily.

Sendo assim, the poems of Carolina are chegaram to be published many years after her death. Pessoal Anthology.

Musical Album Clear room

Depois da publicação de seu primeriro livro, to the author also released by the RCA Victor recorder, or musical album of the same name Clear room, em 1961.

Nessa works, she sings her own compositions. A production supported by maestro Francisco Moraes and directed by Julio Nagib. Ouça or complete album:

Os melhores poems by Carolina Maria de Jesus

Next, I read some important poems by Carolina Maria de Jesus present in her books.

1. Poem Sem title

Don't tell me that I was bounced,
that lived à margem gives life.
Tell me that he was trying to work,
but I was always ignored.
Say ao povo brasiliro
What a dream it was to be a writer
more eu não tinha dinheiro
to pay for a publisher.

Posted em Clear room (1960)

Nesse poem, Carolina explains her enormous amount of writing and being recognized. I have been distressed by account of his social condition and the preconception that he sofreu.

Here, she places her wish for a dignified life and her material impediment to isso.

2. Poem Muitas fugiam ao see me...

Muitas fugiam ao me ver
Thinking that I don't perceive
Outras pediam pra ler
You verses that eu screvia

It was paper that eu catava
To custear or meu viver
And I did not find any books to read
How many coisas eu quis fazer
I was tolhida preconceito hair
It is extinct, I want to be reborn
Num country that predominates or preto

Adeus! Adeus, eu vou morrer!
And I leave these verses to my country
I know that we fear or will be reborn
I want a place, wave or preto is happy.

Posted em Pessoal Anthology (1996). Editor UFRJ

Carolina Maria was a woman who was fully aware of her social class and her race, knowing how much bem (and in fighting) the limitations that she suffers from isso.

Nesse poem, it is evident to denounce racism, that it expresses in a personal way, sounding like an ideal world where blacks are equal.

3. Poem Clear room

When I infiltrate literature
Sonhava so com a ventura
Minhalma estava chêia de hianto
Eu não prior or pranto. Ao publish or Quarto de Despejo
Concretisava assim or meu desejo.
What a life. What a joy.
And now… Alvenaria house.
Another book that will circulate
As sad as you are going to double.
I ask you for the auxiliary
To specify your desejos
I think: eu should post ...
- or ‘Quarto de Despejo’.

No start vêio adimiração
O meu nome circulated to Nação.
A favela writer emerged.
Chama: Carolina Maria de Jesus.
E as works that she produced

She deixou a humanity habismada
I do not start eu fiquei confused.
It seems to be occluded
Num stôjo de marfim.
Eu was requested
It was low.
Like a cherubim.

Depôis começaram to invejar me.
She says: você, deve dar
Os teus bens, for um assilo
You assim falava me
I was not thinking.
Nos meus filhos.

As ladies of high society.
She said: praticae a caridade.
Doando years poor agasalhos.
Mas o dinheiro da alta sociedade
I am not destined for charity
É for the meadows, and the baralhos

E assim, I was disappointed
Or meu ideal regridindo
Same as a body growing.
I was wrinkling, wrinkling ...
Petalas de rosa, murchando, murchando
I... I'm sleeping!

Na silent and cold field
Hey to repouse one day ...
I don't have any illusions
Because a favelada writer
Petal pink foi.
How many thorns in my heart.
I say I'm ambitious
That I am not affectionate.
Include me among you usurários
Because it does not criticize the industries
That I treat how you encourage.
- You operários ...

Posted em Meu estranho daily (1996). Editor Xamã

Nesse poem - that we trace with original spelling - Carolina face a kind of "balanço" of her life.

She narrates how she was successful as a writer, to publish Clear room, exibe suas alegrias naquele moment and a later charge that is sofreu by part of the society, which apontava as "ambitious".

The author ends this poetic text with a quite forceful reflection, questioning or why you give People do not charge coercion and human treatment of the elite, not that they say I respect the population worker.

Curiosities about Carolina Maria de Jesus

• Second it is, a light that intensely marked the life of Carolina foi To escrava Isaura, from 1875, written by Bernardo Guimarães.
• A writer participated in the documentation Favela: life in poverty (1971), who recounted his life of her. Or film foi passedado na Alemanha. Not Brazil, it was censored for its military status.
• A library of the Museu Afro Brasil, located in Parque Ibirapuera in São Paulo, received or named by Biblioteca Carolina Maria de Jesus. Lá, consists of about 11 thousand publications that deal with black and African themes.
• Carolina já had procured editors and journeys to show her literary production before being "uncovered" by Audálio Dantas. Ela chegou to publish some poems in the magazine Or cruzeiro.

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