Salvador de Mendonca: a polygraph between Brazilian and foreign letters/Salvador de Mendonca: um poligrafo entre as letras nacionais e estrangeiras

The periodicals of the nineteenth century preserve the names of many literary figures of note in Brazilian literature, yet the memory of whom has faded. Salvador de Mendonca took a path that, like those of writers of today's canon, granted him recognition in his time and led to the writing of b...

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Veröffentlicht in:Soletras (São Gonçalo) 2017-07, Vol.17 (34), p.32
1. Verfasser: Bezerra, Valeria Cristina
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Zusammenfassung:The periodicals of the nineteenth century preserve the names of many literary figures of note in Brazilian literature, yet the memory of whom has faded. Salvador de Mendonca took a path that, like those of writers of today's canon, granted him recognition in his time and led to the writing of biographies about him in the mid-twentieth century. Nevertheless, his name did not make it into Brazilian literary histories. The objective of this article is to reveal Salvador de Mendonca's presence and his views on foreign literature in Brazil at a moment when the literati of the country were engaged in establishing Brazilian literature. By means of his activity in the press, his collaboration with one of the foremost bookseller-publishers of the court and the publication of a novel, we will aim at verifying his attitudes and through them interpret the conditions for literature in Brazil given the emerging national literature with the intense circulation of foreign novels and attempt to understand the implications of this factor in the forging of a literary career in nineteenth- century Brazil.Keywords: Salvador de Mendonca. Press. Brazilian literature. Translation. Nineteenth century.Os periodicos do seculo XIX conservam o nome de muitos literatos que tiveram uma relevante atuacao nas letras brasileiras, mas que acabaram no esquecimento. Salvador de Mendonca (1841-1913) construiu uma trajetoria semelhante as de escritores hoje canonizados, a qual lhe permitiu reconhecimento em seu tempo e motivou a escrita de biografias a seu respeito em meados do seculo XX. Nem assim obteve sua insercao nas historias literarias brasileiras. Este artigo tem por objetivo desvelar a atuacao de Salvador de Mendonca e suas posicoes em relacao a presenca da literatura estrangeira, num momento em que os literatos brasileiros estavam empenhados na consolidacao da literatura brasileira. Por meio de seu exercicio na imprensa, de sua colaboracao com um dos mais proeminentes livreiros-editores da corte e da publicacao de um romance, buscaremos verificar suas posturas e interpretar, atraves delas, as condicoes das letras no Brasil frente a coexistencia da nascente literatura nacional com a intensa circulacao de romances estrangeiros, atentando para as implicacoes desse fator na construcao de uma carreira literaria no Brasil no seculo XIX.Palavras-chave: Salvador de Mendonca. Imprensa. Literatura brasileira. Traducao. Seculo XIX.
ISSN:2316-8838
2316-8838
DOI:10.12957/soletras.2017.30171