{"title":"Augusto Meyer","description":"Augusto Meyer foi um jornalista, ensaísta, poeta, memorialista e folclorista brasileiro. Foi membro da Academia Brasileira de Letras e da Academia Brasileira de Filologia. Nasceu em Porto Alegre (RS) no ano de 1902 e faleceu no Rio de Janeiro (RJ) em 1970.","products":[{"product_id":"ensaios-escolhidos","title":"Selected essays","description":"The book \"Selected Essays\" (José Olympio) brings together some of the hundreds he left for posterity, some of the most brilliant essays on literature written in Brazil in the 20th century. \"No one in his time wrote as well as he did, with such erudition, sensitivity, refinement, clarity, elegance, sobriety, and grace,\" states organizer Alberto da Costa e Silva, a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. \"A master of the short essay, he could both reveal the secrets of a great book in four pages and use them to scrutinize, with patient expertise, a verse or a phrase. He had a special taste for tracing a work's sources and kinship and for comparing his personal reading with those of others before him.\" \"This volume contains some of the most brilliant and penetrating essays on literature written in Brazil in the 20th century. Just a few, because each of the hundreds of essays left us by Augusto Meyer seems, when we read them, better than the others, which also soon prove to be even better. No one in his time wrote as well as he did, with such erudition, sensitivity, refinement, clarity, elegance, sobriety, and grace. A master of the short essay, he could both reveal the secrets of a great book in four pages and use them to scrutinize, with patient knowledge, a verse or a phrase. He had a special taste for tracing a work's sources and connections and for comparing his personal reading with those of others before him. Augusto Meyer (1902-1970), from Rio Grande do Sul, began as a poet and, as a poet, is the author of a brilliant book, Bilu's Poems (1929). Two or three years after publishing it, he vowed to no longer write poetry, a vow that he happily kept. He broke through at the end of his life, giving us little more than a dozen beautiful poems. His book *Segredos de infância* (1949) placed him among the great Brazilian memoirists. As an essayist, and one of the greatest we have ever had, he made no secret of the fact that among his favorite subjects were Machado de Assis, to whom he dedicated, in 1935, a luminous book, now a classic in the expanded and enriched edition of 1958; Camões, whose verses he devoted himself passionately to; and the authors and traditions of Rio Grande do Sul, whom he knew like few others, and which he summarized in a work that cannot be missing from the scholar's bookshelf, *Guide to Gaucho Folklore* (1951 and 1975). His field of interest was, however, extremely broad, as the texts included in this volume tell us, ranging from Homer to Manuel Bandeira, from Russia to Porto Alegre, from Heineken to Castro Alves, not forgetting Shakespeare, Almeida Garrett, Eça de Queiroz and Rimbaud, about whose poem \"Bateau Ivre,\" wrote a short, definitive book of the same name. None of these essays lack the poet, the exemplary scholar, and the fine literary critic that Augusto Meyer combined. Each of its pages is a lesson in how to write prose, given by someone who truly knew how to be concise, while still being profound, clear, and harmonious. — Alberto da Costa e Silva (Brazilian Academy of Letters)","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175906525436,"sku":"9788503009669","price":64.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/9ec3909e7d18f90d3b31e33f9d371c2e.jpg?v=1778321308"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/augusto-meyer.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}