Ariano Suassuna: life and work

Intellectual, poet, playwright, Ariano Suassuna (1927-2014) deixou a legacy for Brazil, especially giving voice to the Northeast of our country.

As an extensive work composed of poems, folhetins, romances and theater pieces, Ariano Suassuna is ranked as one of the best two names in Brazilian literature.

Biography of Ariano Suassuna

Origin

Ariano Vilar Suass was born on June 16, 1927 in Nossa Senhora das Neves (where João Pessoa is currently), capital of Paraíba.

He was filho do casal Cássia Villar and politician João Suassuna. When Ariano has a year or pai deixou or government of Paraíba and for all the members of the family live in Fazenda Acauhan.

João Suassuna was assassinated for political reasons when Ariano died for three years or when he led his family to move to Taperoá, where he lived between 1933 and 1937.

Adolescence and youth

When I was fifteen years old or a future writer, I was born in Recife in Fez or in the middle.

He attended a directing faculty and, with a colleague, fundou or Teatro do Estudante de Pernambuco, where he wrote his first peças.

Seu first work no theater - a peça Cantam as Harpas de Sião (or O Desertor de Princesa) - happened in 1948.

Carreira

In 1956 Ariano deixou or Direito aside to dedicate himself exclusively to literature. He was a professor of Aesthetics at the Federal University of Pernambuco where for four decades he has been living in the same institution in 1994.

He has been involved in theater, fiction, and politics.

In literary terms, he always created the use of local, northeastern elements, valuing regional culture. São de sua autoria classics like Self gives compassion, O Santo e a Porca and Farce da Boa Preguiça.

About or literary breeding process, Suasssuna dizia:

All the stories told by my são recriações de historia popular ou de historia pessoais. Europe has some enchantments in childhood. Between esses, os mais fortes eram o circo e a leitura. All this world is reborn years of age when you are creating a free.

Northeast Popular Theater

In 1959, next to Hermilo Borba Filho, he founded the Teatro Popular do Nordeste.

A first peça encenada foi a Farsa da Boa Preguiça (1960). No space Ariano developed or his playwright side.

Zélia Suassuna

Marriage with Zélia Suassuna, who lasted her inteira life, produced six filhos and a series of net.

I support Lula

Convicted supporter of Lula, Ariano defender or former president of Brazil at all times, even during two political scandals that balance the government.

In a series of interviews, Ariano publicly stated that Lula was the greatest President that Brazil has never seen before.

Armorial Movement

Launched in October 18, 1970, not Recife, or armorial movement was linked to culture, tinha Ariano Suassuna as two main leaders and sought to stimulate various forms of traditional popular expression.

Or movement was launched with a shamed concert Três Séculos de Música Nordestina - from Baroque to Armorial that was accompanied by an exhibition of engraving, painting and sculpture.

During this period, Ariano Suassuna was involved in politics and was a founding member of the Federal Council of Culture. (1967 até 1973) and later Secretary of Culture of the State of Pernambuco during the Miguel Arraes Government (1994 to 1998).

In order to promote national culture in various forms - literature, music, theater, dance, plastic arts - especially Ariano Suassuna played, who always became an internationalization. Give the following review:

"O Brazil has a unity in its diversity. People respect the gaúcha, northeastern, amazonian culture. Or that this cosmopolitan apartment is ruim. You are linked to television and cannot distinguish whether you are a German, Brazilian or American singer, because everyone sings and dresses the same jeito. "

Member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters

Ariano Suassuna was elected to the academy on August 3, 1989 and was taken over on August 9, 1990.

The sixth occupant of cadeira 32 was preceded by Genolino Amado and succeeded by Zuenir Ventura.

Death

O faleceu writer, victim of cardiac arrest, not on July 23, 2014, 87 years old, in Recife.

Ariano Suassuna Quotes

"I have no imagination, I copy. I have sympathy for a liar and doido. As I do bouquet, I identify a liar logo. "

"O otimista é um tolo. Or pessimistic, um flat. Just be a hopeful realist. "

"I certify that all art is local, before being regional, but lending itself, will be contemporary and universal."

"Arte pra mim não é product de market. You can call me romantic. Art pra mim é missão, vocação e festa. "

"I don't have anything to do with death. Na minha terra, a morte is a mulher and is called Caetana. The only way to oil that damn thing and thinking that she is a pretty woman. "

"You guys will lose everything, less by reason. Têm uma (reason) particular. Liars are similar to writers who, unhappy with reality, invent others. "

Plays

Ariano Suassuna has written a long time for his entire career. His publications go through the literary genres and, for além da ficção e do theater, or breeder also from the light of poems and essays.

His works were translated into or German, for or Spanish, for or French, for or Dutch, for or English, for or Italian and for or Polish.

Check out his main published works:

Fiction

• A history of love of Fernando and Isaura (1956)
• Romance d’A Pedra do Reino e o Príncipe do Sangue do Vai-e-Volta (1971)
• As Infâncias de Quaderna (Folhetim weekly no Diário de Pernambuco, 1976-77)
• History of Rei Degolado nas Caatingas do Sertão / Ao Sol da Onça Caetana (1977)
• Fernando and Isaura (1956)

Theater plays

• Uma Mulher Dressed in the Sun (1947)
• Cantam as Harpas de Sião (or O Desertor de Princesa) (1948)
• Os Homens de Barro (1949)
• João da Cruz's car (1950)
• Tortures of um Coração (1951)
• Or Desolate Bow (1952)
• O Punishment gives Soberba (1953)
• O Rico Avarento (1954)
• Self gives compassion (1955)
• Or Suspicious House (1957).
• O Santo e a Porca, northeastern imitation of Plauto (1957)
• O Homem da Vaca e o Poder da Fortuna (1958)
• A Pena e a Lei (1959)
• Farsa da Boa Preguiça (1960)
• A Caseira and Catarina (1962)
• As Conchambranças de Quaderna (1987)
• A Love Story of Romeu and Juliet (1997)

To poetry by Ariano Suassuna

Less known by his verses that pelas suas peças de theater, a poetic work by a northeastern author and characterized by his complexion and hair seu secrecy.

Seus verses - many biographical times - are dense, collection of meanings and drink of the popular Brazilian tradition (especially in the northeastern part) embora faça use of scholarly references.

With poems built on the basis of na oralidade, Ariano also many times he mixes real dinners with imagined dinners, inteiramente fanciful.

A major part of his lyrical creation revolves around two themes of exile, of the kingdom, of the origin and of the figure of the country.

In relation to the written format, the verses are understood by carregarem elements of the Baroque.

Relembre or poem Here morava um rei, from Suassuna:

Here Morava um rei quando eu menino
He wore ouro and castanho no gibão,
Pedra da Sorte on my Destiny,
Pulsed next to meu, seu coração.
For me, or her singing was Divine,
When there is a viola and a bordão,
Cantava com voz rouca, or nonsense,
Or Sangue, or riso e as mortes do Sertão.
More mataram meu pai. Since that day
Eu I saw myself, how I blind sem meu guide
That was foi para o Sol, transfigured.

His effigy burned me. Eu sou a dam.
Ele, grilled that impels Fogo acesa
Sword of Ouro in bloody grass.

Take advantage of the occasion to meet The sensational poems of Ariano Suassuna.

As his published works of poetry:

• Or Burning Grass (1945-70)
• Sonnets with the Mote Alheio (1980)
• Sonnets by Albano Cervonegro (1985)
• Seleta em Prosa e Verso (1974)
• Poems (1999)
• CD - Poesia Viva by Ariano Suassuna (1998)

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