Dalton Trevisan Explained

Dalton Trevisan
Birth Date:14 June 1925
Birth Place:Curitiba, Brazil
Occupation:Writer
Alma Mater:Federal University of Paraná

Dalton Jérson Trevisan (Curitiba, 14 June 1925) is a Brazilian author of short stories.[1] He is described as an "acclaimed short-story chronicler of lower-class mores and popular dramas."[2] Trevisan won the 2012 Prémio Camões, the leading Portuguese-language author prize, valued at .[3] [4] [5]

His short stories are inspired in the daily life of his home city of Curitiba, though featuring characters and situations of universal meaning. His extremely concise and refined tales have been called "Haikus in prose". They are often based on dialogue, using a popular language, and underline the torturing and absurd aspects of everyday life. Often brutal, his narratives can be considered the reverse of moral tales, exposing a culture of perversion and violence underlying middle class hypocrisy.[6]

As of 2021, only two of his books have been translated into English, Novels Not at All Exemplary and The Vampire of Curitiba, both in 1972 by translator Gregory Rabassa.[7]

His reclusive behavior, added to his longevity and the content of his work, gave him the nickname "The Vampire of Curitiba".[8]

He graduated from the Federal University of Paraná in legal studies but seldom worked in the law profession.[9]

Joaquim

Dalton Trevisan was the editor of a magazine called Joaquim (Portuguese: Revista Joaquim), which put Paraná on the map of Brazilian literary discussions in the 1940s. The magazine had a total of 21 issues and circulated between April 1946 and December 1948. Joaquim was responsible for the first publication in Portuguese of texts by T. S. Eliot, Franz Kafka, Louis Aragon, Tristan Tzara, Garcia Lorca, Rainer Maria Rilke, André Gide and Jean Paul Sartre. Among the sporadic contributors to the magazine it is possible to list Vinícius de Moraes, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Mario de Andrade, Oswald de Andrade and Antônio Cândido. The name "Joaquim" was chosen as a common, proximate and universal name in Brazil.

Joaquim's pages displayed original artwork by plastic artists such as Candido Portinari, Di Cavalcanti, Guido Viaro and Poty Lazzarotto. Lazzarotto would remain a great editorial partner of Trevisan in the following decades.[10]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dalton Jérson Trevisan . 2023-05-28 . Recanto das Letras . pt-BR.
  2. Vieira . Nelson H. . Winter 1990 . World literature in review: Portuguese . World Literature Today . 64 . 1 . 85 . 9610220281 . As Brazil's acclaimed short-story chronicler of lower-class mores and popular dramas, Dalton Trevisan infuses his twenty-second publication with twenty-two narratives of blood-soaked violence, primarily the domestic kind frequently splashed across lurid tabloids that sensationalize the conjugal warfare between oppressive husbands and oppressed wives. . 10.2307/40145842. 40145842 .
  3. Web site: Literature: Brazilian author Dalton Trevisan awarded "Camões Prize" – Portugal . 22 May 2012 . Portuguese American Journal . 22 May 2012.
  4. Web site: 2013-06-23 . Trevisan e a batalha na ABL Radar on-line - Lauro Jardim - VEJA.com . 2023-05-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130623060729/http://veja.abril.com.br/blog/radar-on-line/cultura/trevisan-leva-premio-de-literatura-na-abl-em-disputa-de-bastisdores-entre-academicos/ . 23 June 2013 .
  5. Web site: 2012-05-21 . Dalton Trevisan distinguido com o Prémio Camões - Cultura - PUBLICO.PT . 2023-05-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120521155715/http://www.publico.pt/Cultura/dalton-trevisan-distinguido-com-o-premio-camoes--1546977 . 21 May 2012 .
  6. Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story.
  7. Lopes . Liliane Mantovani . 2021-03-03 . Uma análise da tradução para o inglês de vocábulos recorrentes e preferenciais nas obras Novelas Nada Exemplares e O Vampiro de Curitiba, de Dalton Trevisan, à luz dos estudos da tradução baseados em corpus .
  8. Web site: 15/06/2022 - Aniversário de Dalton Trevisan: O vampiro de Curitiba . 2022-08-25 . www.revistamuseu.com.br.
  9. News: Tímido ao ser abordado em público, Dalton Trevisan afirma não ser quem é . Marco Rodrigo . Almeida . 7 May 2016 . Folha de S. Paulo . 3 July 2016 .
  10. Web site: Imprensa: Curitiba revisitada . 2022-08-25 . Biblioteca Pública do Paraná . pt-br.

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