Caio Fernando Abreu

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Caio Fernando Loureiro de Abreu (September 12, 1948 – February 25, 1996), best known as Caio Fernando Abreu, was one of the most influential and original Brazilian writers of the 1970s and 1980s.[1] Caio F., as he habitually signed his letters,[2] was born in Santiago do Boqueirão in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in 1948, and died in Porto Alegre in 1996. Abreu studied at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul but abandoned academia before graduating to write for pop culture magazines such as Revista Nova, Revista Manchete, Revista Veja and Revista Pop. He was a prolific journalist and literary writer. He wrote short stories, novels, chronicles or crônicas, drama, and he also maintained throughout his life an extensive correspondence with other writers and artists, family and friends.[3] In 1968, Abreu was put on the wanted list by the DOPS or the Departamento de Ordem Política e Social, a repressive branch of the Brazilian government that operated during years when the repressive military dictatorship was in power, but found refuge at the country estate of Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst, located near the city of Campinas, in state of São Paulo. During the early '70s he spent one year in self-exile in Europe, spending time in England, Sweden, France, the Netherlands and in Spain. In 1983, he relocated from his native Porto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, to the city of Rio de Janeiro; and in 1985, he moved to the city of São Paulo. Abreu then return again to France in 1994 where he found out that he was HIV positive. That same year, he returned home to Porto Alegre permanently to live with his parents. He enjoyed gardening before dying there two years later.

Abreu's identities

Abreu’s style of confessional literature captures his personal fears, hopes, sentiments and desires but, at the same time, his voice is both individual and collective.[4] Abreu also introduced the topic of AIDS into Brazilian literature. The discourse of AIDS was already present in Abreu’s writing from the beginning of the epidemic in the 1980s.[5] He is, along with Cazuza and Renato Russo, one of the most recognized Brazilian artists to have died of AIDS.[6]

Abreu's works

In his first romance novel, White Limit (1970) already had the markings of his literary trajectory: the anguish in the face of duty in the certain death at the end of his journey.[7] According to his literary perspective, a life should be continually searched for.[8]

Abreu's work in film

Two of Abreu's short stories has been made into film: Aqueles Dois was made into a 1983 feature film directed by Sergio Amon and Sargento Garcia was made into a 2000 short film directed by Tutti Gregianin. Over the years, "Aqueles Dois" has enjoyed several theatre adaptations.[9] His novel Onde Andará Dulce Veiga was also made into a feature film, released in Brazil in 2007 and directed by Abreu's friend Guilherme de Almeida Prado. Abreu also wrote the screenplay for Sergio Bianchi's 1988 feature Romance.[10]

Tribute

On 12 September 2018, to commemorate what would have been his 70th birthday, Google released a Google Doodle celebrating him.[11]

Bibliography

  • Inventário do irremediável [Inventory of hopelessness], Brazil (1970, 1995).
  • Limite branco [White limit], Brazil (1971, 1984, 1992).
  • O ovo apunhalado [Stabbed egg], Brazil (1975, 1984, 1992).
  • Pedras de Calcutá [Stones from Calcutá], Brazil (1977, 1995).
  • Morangos mofados, Brazil (1982, 1995, 2005), Moldy Strawberries, translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato, USA, UK (2022).
  • Triângulo das águas [Triangle of waters], Brazil, Prêmio Jabuti - 1983 (1983, 1993).
  • As frangas [Pullets], Brazil (1988).
  • Os dragões não conhecem o paraíso [Dragons don't know paradise], Brazil, Prêmio Jabuti - 1988 (1988).
  • A maldição do Vale Negro [Curse of black valley], Brazil, Molière Price by Air France - 1988 (1988).
  • Onde andará Dulce Veiga?, Brazil (1990), Whatever happened to Dulce Veiga?- A B novel,[12] translated by Adria Frizzi, USA (2001).
  • Bien loin de Marienbad [Quite distant from Marienbad], France (1994).
  • Ovelhas negras [Black sheep], Brazil, Prêmio Jabuti - 1995 (1995).
  • Mel & girassóis [Honey & Sunflowers], Brazil (1996).
  • Teatro completo [Complete theatre], Brazil (1997).
  • Cartas [Letters] (Caio Fernando Abreu & Ítalo Moriconi), Brazil (2002).
Theater
  • O homem e a mancha [Man and the stain]
  • Zona contaminada [Contaminated zone]
Translation
  • A arte da guerra by Sun Tzu (Caio Fernando Abreu & Miriam Paglia), (1995).
  • Assim vivemos agora by Susan Sontag (Caio Fernando Abreu), (1995).
  • A Balada do Café Triste by Carson McCullers), (1991).

See also

References

  1. ↑ Abreu, Caio Fernando. 2005. Caio 3D. Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Agir.
  2. ↑ Abreu, Caio Fernando. 2002. Cartas, ed. Italo Moriconi. Rio de Janeiro: Aeroplano Editora.
  3. ↑ Dip, Paula. 2009. Para sempre teu, caio F. : Cartas, conversas, memórias de caio fernando abreu, ed. Caio Fernando Abreu. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record.
  4. ↑ Dip, Paula. 2009. Para sempre teu, caio F. : Cartas, conversas, memórias de caio fernando abreu, ed. Caio Fernando Abreu. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record.
  5. ↑ Abreu, Caio Fernando. 2005. Caio 3D. Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Agir.
  6. ↑ Abreu, Caio Fernando. 2005. Caio 3D. Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Agir.
  7. ↑ "Listagem de Sepultados do Cemitério Irmandade Arcanjo São Miguel e Almas". Buratto.org. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  8. ↑ PIVA, Mairim Linck (2012). "Um romancista do Sul: muito além do espaço". Navegações, Porto Alegre, v. 5, n. 1, p. 16-26. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  9. ↑ "CCBB Rio". Theatre Company. Archived from the original on 2010-01-25. Retrieved 2011-09-21.
  10. ↑ IMDb[permanent dead link‍]
  11. ↑ "Caio Fernando Abreu's 70th Birthday". Google. 12 September 2018.
  12. ↑ "Home". University of Texas Press. Retrieved 2024-11-27.

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