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Morte E Vida Severina (filme)
''Morte e Vida Severina'' (literally, ''Severine Life and Death'', translated by Elizabeth Bishop as ''The Death and Life of a Severino'') is a Theatrical play, play in verse by Brazilian author João Cabral de Melo Neto, one of his most famous and frequently read works. Published in 1955 and written between 1954 and 1955, the play is divided into 18 sections and written in heptasyllabic Meter (poetry), meter, recalling the ''Cordel literature, cordel'', a form the popular poetry of northeastern Brazil, where Melo Neto was born and lived for most of his life. ''Morte e Vida Severina'' is subtitled ''Auto de Natal Pernambucano'' (''Auto (play), Auto of Pernambuco, Pernambucan Christmas''), in a reference to both the biblical perspective of the word and in a broader sense of a new beginning for life at its entirety. The play recounts the journey of a ''retirante'' called Severino, who, fleeing from the poverty and the droughts that ravage the northeastern region of Brazil, follows th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Cabral De Melo Neto
João Cabral de Melo Neto (January 6, 1920 – October 9, 1999) was a Brazilian poet and diplomat, and one of the most influential writers in late Brazilian modernism. He was awarded the 1990 Camões Prize and the 1992 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the only Brazilian poet to receive such award to date. He was considered until his death a perennial competitor for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Melo Neto's works are noted for the rigorous, yet inventive attention they pay to the formal aspects of poetry. He derives his characteristic sound from a traditional verse of five or seven syllables (called ‘’redondilha’’) and from the constant use of oblique rhymes. His style ranges from the surrealist tendency which marked his early poetry to the use of regional elements of his native northeastern Brazil. In many works, including the famed auto '' Morte e Vida Severina'', Melo Neto's addresses the life of those affected by the poverty and inequality in Pernambuco. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
