Invenção de Orfeu

by Jorge de Lima

Uma das mais importantes obras da poesia brasileira, "Invenção de Orfeu" é um verdadeiro monumento poético e linguístico, que enriqueceu o nosso patrimônio cultural. Longo poema épico-subjetivo de Jorge de Lima, considerado "Os Lusíadas" da literatura nacional, unindo fragmentos de epopeias clássicas como a "Divina Comédia", Eneida, Camões e a "Bíblia" a elementos sociais. Jorge de Lima constrói aqui uma ode moderna ao criar uma viagem na qual se depara com o inferno, o paraíso e algumas musas.

Genres: Poetry, Brazil

432 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1952

About the author

Jorge Mateus de Lima, was a Brazilian politician, poet, and writer. His most famous works are the novels "A Mulher Obscura" and "Calunga"; and "A Túnica Inconsútil" and "A Invenção de Orfeu" (poetry). He was in a list and would win the Nobel Prize in 1958, but he died in 1953.
He was the son of a wealthy merchant and moved to Maceió in 1902, with his mother and siblings. In 1909 he moved to Salvador, where he began studying medicine. Completed the course in Rio de Janeiro in 1914, but was designed as a poet to his name. That same year he published the first book, Alexandrine XIV. He returned to Maceió in 1915 where he devoted himself to medicine, and literature and politics. When he moved to Alagoas to Rio in 1930 set up an office in Cinelandia, also turned to studio painting and meeting point for intellectuals. There was meeting people like Murilo Mendes, Graciliano Ramos and Jose Lins do Rego. In this period he published about ten books, five of poetry. Also served as state representative from 1918 to 1922. With the Revolution of 1930 was brought to settle down permanently in Rio de Janeiro.
In 1939 he devoted himself also to the arts, participating in some exhibitions. In 1952, he published his most important book, the epic Invention of Orpheus. In 1953, months before he died, he recorded poems for the Archive of the Spoken Word Library of Congress in Washington, the United States of America.
Between 1937 and 1945 had its application to the Brazilian Academy of Letters refused six times. For Ivan Junqueira, the Academy has committed an unforgivable injustice to the author, whose literary work was exceptionally well received by critics and public. The scholar does not believe that the poet was carried forward to the edge of the literature of his time and he says, when referring to the greatest poem of the author - Invention of Orpheus, "... even today, more junk spent 50 years of its publication, there is no Brazilian poet that he did not remember. "

Reviews

[Adriana Scarpin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Comprando todas as edições da Cosac que eu vinha adiando, antes que seja tarde.

Edição impecável da Cosac com mais de 200 páginas em textos extras versando sobre a obra de Jorge de Lima, com direito até a carta de Ezra Pound.

[Leandro Rafael Perez]

Como diria Mário Faustino (eca!), os melhores e os piores versos da língua portuguesa encontram-se neste livro, onde o fôlego épico é um desafio vertiginoso ao fazer poético.

[MARCONI Urquiza · Rating 4 out of 5]

Este livro é um enorme poema. Tentei ler e acompanhar o que o autor quis transmitir. É uma epopéia.