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Adelino Magalhães

Adelino Magalhães (Niterói, 1887 - Rio de Janeiro, 1969) was a Brazilian, considered one of the most important impressionist writers in the country, along with Graça Aranha and Raul Pompéia.

Biography
Adelino Magalhães was born in Niterói in 1887. Between 1902 and 1905, he studied at the Spencer Institute in Ipanema and then, from 1906, at the medical school of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

At the same time as studying, he dedicated himself to teaching, starting at the Baptist College in the same city.

During these years, he became interested in literature, running the weekly O Estado, in Barra Mansa between 1911 and 1912, and graduated in law in 1914.

The following year, he was appointed a teacher at the Sousa Aguiar school, where he taught history and geography.

In 1916, he made his debut with the prose book Casos e Impressões (Translate literally to: Cases and Impressions), characterized by the technique of internal monologue and the division of the personality into hallucinations and dramatic images. The following year, he became a founding member of the Fluminense Academy of Letters.

The same style was used in Visões, Lendas e Perfis (Visions, Legends and Profiles) (1918), focused on reflections, anxieties, questions, wrapped in nostalgia for a secure faith.

In 1921, he co-founded the "Centre for Brazilian Culture" in Rio, which would guide the artistic, cultural and civic environment for years, thanks to numerous initiatives such as conferences and courses.

The book Tumulto da Vida (Life's turmoil) was based on fantastic stories structured around cinematic rhythms. Magalhães sought new balances, although in Hora Veloz (1926) (Speedy Hour) he adopted pessimistic tones and surreal atmospheres.

The anxiety and restlessness subsided in the "sung prose" of Os Momentos (1928) (The Moments).

His subsequent writings dealt with historical, artistic, literary and local issues. These include Os Marcos da Emoção (The Milestones of Emotion) (1937), Iris (1937), Plenitude (1939), Quebra-luz (Light-Breaker) (1946) and Obras completas (Complete Works) (1946).

In 1951, he began running the Amaro Cavalcanti school and, after more than 37 years of service, he ended his career as a municipal teacher.

Ten years later, in 1961, the Rio de Janeiro state government instituted several literary prizes, including one dedicated to Adelino Magalhães.

Adelino Magalhães died in 1969 in Rio de Janeiro.

Personal Life
On November 24, 1931, he married Ms. Nair Fernandes, with whom he had a son, Luís Augusto, born in 1932, who became a doctor in life.

Legacy
Literature critics had some problems framing Magalhães' works as precursors to surrealism, preparers for modernism, after the author's initial adherence to romanticism, they soon followed a path of renewal.

His prose is characterized by dry narratives, free of formal rules, influenced by futurism, by "free words", which sometimes oscillate between tragic and naturalistic violence, but always mediated by illusory, dreamlike and hallucinatory spaces and times, who had a significant influence on the writers of later generations.

Complete works

 * Casos e Impressões, (Cases and Impressions)1916;
 * Visões, Lendas e Perfis, (Visions, Legends and Profiles) 1918;
 * Tumulto da Vida, (Tumult of Life) 1922;
 * Inquietude, (Restlessness) 1924;
 * Hora Veloz, (Speedy Time) 1926;
 * Os Momentos, (The Moments) 1928;
 * Os Marcos da Emoção, (The Milestones of Emotion) 1937;
 * Iris, 1937;
 * Plenitude, 1939;
 * Quebra-luz, (Light-Breaker) 1946;
 * Obras completas, (Complete Works) 1946.