Otávio de Faria (October 15, 1908 – October 17, 1980) was a
Brazilian journalist
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and
writer
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. He was elected a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters on January 13, 1972. He was most noted as author of the monumental testimonial (and prophetic) ''A Tragédia burguesa'' (''The Bourgeois Tragedy'').
In a noted essay, "Pandeísmo em Carlos Nejar",
[Otávio de Faria, "Pandeísmo em Carlos Nejar", in Última Hora, Rio de Janeiro, May 17, 1978.] de Faria "spoke of the
pandeism
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of
Carlos Nejar
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"; in the evaluation of
Giovanni Pontiero
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,
He was born in
Rio de Janeiro
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, son of Alberto Faria and Maria Teresa de Almeida Faria, and in Rio de Janeiro he died.
References
External links
Biografia no sítio oficial da Academia Brasileira de Letras
1908 births
1980 deaths
Members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters
Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Brazilian journalists
Brazilian male writers
20th-century journalists
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