Luís Caetano Pereira Guimarães Júnior (17 February 1845, in
Rio de Janeiro
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– 20 May 1898, in
Lisbon) was a Brazilian diplomat, poet, novelist and dramaturgist.
He was bachelor in the
Faculdade de Direito do Recife in 1869, in the same class of the writer
Araripe Júnior
Tristão de Alencar Araripe Júnior (27 June 1848 – 29 October 1911) was a Brazilian lawyer, literary critic, and writer.
Biography
Tristão de Alencar Araripe Júnior was born in Fortaleza, Ceará, the son of Tristão de Alencar Araripe and A ...
. His works switched from
Romanticism
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to
Parnasianism.
As a diplomat, he lived in
Santiago de Chile
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,
Roma and
Lisbon, where he finally stayed and he met intellectuals such as
Eça de Queiroz
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,
Ramalho Ortigão
José Duarte Ramalho Ortigão () (24 October 1836 – 27 September 1915) was a Portuguese writer of the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Biography
Ortigão spent his early years with his maternal grandmother in Porto. He studied law in ...
,
Guerra Junqueiro
Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro (, 17 September 1850 – 7 July 1923) was a Portuguese top civil servant, member of the Portuguese House of Representatives, journalist, author, and poet. His work helped inspire the creation of the Portuguese First ...
or
Fialho de Almeida. He was a member and one of the founders of
Academia Brasileira de Letras.
Works
*''Lírio branco'', novel (1862);
*''Uma cena contemporânea'', theatre (1862);
* ''Corimbos'', poesia (1866);
* ''A família agulha'', novel (1870);
* ''Noturnos'', poetry (1872);
* ''Filigranas'', fiction (1872);
* ''Sonetos e rimas'', poetry (1880);
* ''As quedas fatais'', theatre;
* ''André Vidal'', theatre;
* ''As jóias indiscretas'', theatre;
* ''Um pequeno demônio'', theatre;
* ''O caminho mais curto'', theatre;
* ''Os amores que passam'', theatre;
* ''Valentina'', theatre;
* ''A alma do outro mundo'', theatre (1913).
1845 births
1898 deaths
Brazilian male writers
Members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters
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