Manuel Bandeira: Who he was, biography, trajectory and works

Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho, or better known as Manuel Bandeira is considered the second greatest poet of Brazilian modernism, second only to Carlos Drummond de Andrade, his works are marked by melancholy, with a hint of good humor, characterized by his childhood, family and friends.

TRAJECTORY OF MANOEL FLAG

Bandeira was born in the city of Recife, in 1886 and died in Rio de Janeiro, in 1968, at the age of 82, he lived with tuberculosis for most of his life, for more than 50 years of existence, he acquired the disease at 17 years of age. age. With this scenario, Manuel Bandeira's poems brought and bring an air of melancholy, sadness and expectation of death.

Manuel Bandeira was raised by his parents Manuel Carneiro, a great engineer at the time, and his mother Francelina Ribeiro. Manuel did not live his whole life in Recife, at 16 years old, already a teenager and already beginning his studies, he moved to Rio de Janeiro with his parents, thus completing his studies.

As many people think Manuel de Bandeira did not start his life with a passion for books, after he finished his studies, he started an architecture course at the so-called Polytechnic School of São Paulo, but unfortunately in the middle of that time, he discovered a major disease, Tuberculosis, in view of this, he had to stop the course to start a treatment, at 17 years of age. age.

With the disease, the Writer found himself in a dark world with no possibilities of survival, at the age of 27, that is, ten years after he discovered the disease, sought medical help in Switzerland, in that same place he met Paul Éluard, French poet, who was also fighting against the disease. illness. With this disease, Manuel sought inspiration for his literary writing and creation of works, as we will see below:

CONSTRUCTION

The writer has always written poems focused on his reality, extracted from simplicity, with quick and momentary inspirations, called poems of illumination. The poetic scenario, as mentioned, has always had a marked presence, many times, of sadness mixed with melancholy. Manuel's poetic verses are filled with lyrical, musical verses and with a touch of good humor, prosaic and metalinguistic.

Here are some works from the beginning of the writer's career:

• The Ash of the Hours was the first book published, in 1917, its influence comes from a Symbolist and Parnassian period, involved by suffering and melancholy, followed by the poem called disenchantment
• In 1919, he published Carnaval, the free verse poems already fitted into the modernist logic, provoking the idea of ​​formal freedom
• In 1921 the first modernist phase is marked, Manuel collaborated with the genre with Mario de Andrade
• 1922 created the poem called “Os Sapos”, it was harshly criticized and booed during its presentation at the Teatro Municipal, the poem ridicules Parnassianism in the face of the metrics and rhymes of this style literary
• 1925 publishes Ritmo Dissoluto, and in the same year he began to write chronicles making punctual criticisms about the movies and music of the time

In 1930, he published a book of great success poems, poems that portrayed his expectations and yearnings for life, such as Pneumothorax, Evocação do Recife and I'm going away to Pasárgada, which is considered a lyrical autobiographical, in which Manuel exhibits the desire to go to another imaginary country, in that country he would be a friend of the king and could do everything that was prevented by the fact of disease.

I'm leaving for Pasargada

I'm leaving for Pasargada
I'm a friend of the king there
There I have the woman I want
in the bed i will choose
I'm leaving for Pasargada

I'm leaving for Pasargada
Here I am not happy
There existence is an adventure
so inconsequential
May Joana the Madwoman of Spain
Queen and false insane
Come to be the counterpart
daughter-in-law I never had
And how will I do gymnastics
I will ride a bike
I will ride a wild donkey
I'll climb the tallow stick
I will bathe in the sea!
And when you're tired
I lie on the riverbank
I send for the mother of water
to tell me the stories
that in my time as a boy
rose came to tell me
I'm leaving for Pasargada
In Pasargada it has everything
It's another civilization
It has a secure process
to prevent conception
It has an automatic telephone
Have alkaloid at will
have beautiful whores
for us to date
And when I'm sadder
But sad that there is no way
when at night give me
will to kill me
— I am a friend of the king there —
I will have the woman I want
in the bed i will choose
I'm leaving for Pasargada.

As we can see in the poem, Manuel portrays everything he wanted to do throughout his life, especially in youth, and he couldn't do it because of the tuberculosis disease that struck him so early, becoming a very good poem. melancholy.

Other works were published throughout his life, he dedicated himself to various aspects of literature, such as Poetry, prose, anthologies, and poems, such as Lira dos Fifty years (Poesia, 1940) Belo, Belo (Poetry, 1948), Poetic Anthology (1961), Andorinha, Andorinha (Prosa, 1966), Porquinho da Índia, the same being the most famous among many other poems created by writer.

Like Machado de Assis, Manuel Bandeira was also recognized at the Brazilian Academy of Letters. In 1938, he had another great achievement, he was appointed Professor of Literature, recognized at Colégio Pedro II, and in 1943, he was also appointed Professor of Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy. The writer died in Rio de Janeiro, in 1968, publishing his last work, called Collóquio Unilaterally Sentimental, a prose published in the year of his death, thus leaving wonderful works by great stories.

Thus, this article ends with a speech that Manuel gave in an interview for the magazine bula website, in which says: “I can say that little gives me, when I die, to die completely forever in my flesh and in my poetry."

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