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Otávio de Faria

オターヴィオ・デ・ファリア

Otávio de Faria

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1908-10-15 (Rio de Janeiro)
Died
1980-10-17 (Rio de Janeiro) age 72
Nationality
Brazilian
Languages
Portuguese
Residence History
Rio de Janeiro

Career

Occupations
journalist, writer
Active Years
1908-1980
Memberships
Academia Brasileira de Letras

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

A Tragédia burguesa

Novel

Monumental testimonial (and prophetic) work about the bourgeois tragedy.

Legacy

Brazilian journalist and writer. Elected a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters on January 13, 1972. Most noted for A Tragédia burguesa.

Quotes

  • Otávio de Faria spoke of the pandeism of Carlos Nejar. Not a pantheist poetry, but pandeist. I want to say, a cosmogony, one I sing generally, a chansonnier of the human being and the holy ghost. But the holy ghost in the human being.
    Source: Carlos Nejar, poeta e pensador (1983)