Murilo Mendes (born May 13, 1901 in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, - died in Lisbon on August 13, 1975) was an exponent of Modernist poetry in Brazil. He lived in Europe twice and died in Lisbon. His greatest connection in Europe though was to Rome. He converted to Catholicism in 1934 and much of his works deal with tensions arising from his faith.Doctor, telegraph operator, assistant accountants, notaries and Inspector of Secondary Education of the Federal District. It was the fourth secretary of the Family Court of the Federal District in 1946. From 1953 to 1955 toured several European countries, publishing, conferences, the Brazilian culture. In 1957 he settled in Rome, where he taught Brazilian literature. He remained faithful to the mining images, merging them to Sicily and Spain, laden with history.He began writing literature magazines modernist Terra Roxa, Land and Other Antropofagia. Books Poems (1930), History of Brazil (1932) and Bumba-Meu-Poet, written in 1930 but not published until 1959, edition of the complete work entitled Poems (1925-1955), is clearly modernist, revealing a vision humorous picture of Brazilian reality. Time and Eternity (1935) marks the conversion to Catholicism Murilo Mendes. In this book, the humorous elements decrease and visual values of the text are highlighted. It was written in collaboration with poet Jorge de Lima.In the volumes of the next phase, Poetry in Scream (1938), The Visionary (1941), The Metamorphoses (1944) and World Puzzle (1945), the poet presents cubist influence, overlapping images and making the plastic on the predominant discourse. Poetry Freedom (1947), as some other books of the poet, was written under the impact of war, reflecting the author's concern about the situation in the world. In 1954, he left Contemplation of Ouro Preto, where Murilo Mendes changed their language and their concerns, referring to the old mining towns and its atmosphere. Thereafter, the poet threw himself into new stylistic processes, making a poetry of a more rigorous and stripped, as in the Parable (1946-1952) and Sicily (1954-1955), published in Poems (1925-1955). The characteristics of this period reached their best achievement in Spanish Book Time (1959).In 1970, Murilo Mendes Convergence published a book of avant-garde poetry. Murilo Mendes has also published books of prose, as The Disciples at Emmaus (1944), The Age of the Saw (1968), Book of memories and Polyhedron (1972). When he died in Lisbon, he left many unpublished works.
WORKS: "Poems" (1930), "Bumba-my-poet" (1930), "History of Brazil" (1933), "Time and Eternity" - Jorge de Lima (1935), "Poetry in a panic" (1937) "the Visionary" (1941), "the Metamorphoses" (1944), "puzzle World" and "the disciple of Emmaus" (1945), "Poetry freedom" (1947), "Window of chaos" - France (1949) "Contemplation of Ouro Preto" (1954), "Office humain" - France (1954), "Poems (Work completed to date)" (1959), "Spanish Time" - Portugal (1959), "Siciliana" - Italy (1959), "Poesie" - Italy (1961), "Finestra del chaos" - Italy (1961), "Siete unpublished poems" - Spain (1961), "poems" - Spain (1962), "poetry Anthology" - Portugal (1964), "Le Metamorfosi" - Italy (1964), "italianissimo (7 Murilogrami) - Italy 1965)," unpublished poems by Murilo Mendes "- Spain (1965)," the age of the saw "(1968)," Convergence "(1970)," Poetry free "- Italy (1971)," Polyhedron "(1972)," Portraits-lightning, a grade "(1973)," Poetic Anthology "(1976) and" Complete Poetry and Prose "(1994 ).