José Galante de Sousa
José Galante de Sousa (13 July 1913 – 10 February 1986) was a Brazilian writer, scholar, civil servant and academic.
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Biography
A former seminarian, he taught Portuguese and Latin at schools in the city of Rio de Janeiro, including Colégio Pedro II. Constantly poring over books, magazines and newspapers, he published articles in specialized magazines and worked at the National Book Institute and the Rui Barbosa House Foundation, as well as mentoring important researchers.
A specialist in the work and life of Machado de Assis, Galante de Sousa was responsible for revising the three-volume edition of the author's complete works published by Aguilar (1959).[1] As a researcher, bringing to light unpublished facts as the fruit of meticulous investigation, he also wrote, among other books, Bibliografia de Machado de Assis (1955), Fontes para Estudo de Machado de Assis (1958), Machado de Assis e Outros Estudos (1979) and the two volumes of the award-winning O Teatro no Brasil (1960). His research binder, with more than ten thousand files, was donated, while he was still alive, to the Rui Barbosa House Foundation.
Dedicated to literary research, he specialized in library economy. He had the ability to sniff out forgotten treasures and ignored riches of Brazilian literature. For many years, he worked at the National Book Institute, which published some of his works, including the Bibliography of Machado de Assis, a compact volume of almost eight hundred pages, published in 1955 and enthusiastically welcomed by other scholars of the field.
Established by Ministerial Order No. 483 of 1919–59 of the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Machado de Assis Commission was charged with preparing the definitive text of the works of the great Brazilian writer. From the outset, José Galante de Sousa joined the commission as a full member and rendered great services there. Outside the Machado field, Galante de Sousa wrote for the Revista do Livro, of the Ministry of Education and Culture. When he fell ill, he was working with Afrânio Coutinho on the Encyclopedia of Brazilian Literature (1990).
José Galante de Sousa died in Rio de Janeiro at 72 years of age.[2]
See also
Works
- Caderno Modelo da Conjugação Portuguesa (1941)
- Manual Prático de Análise Lógica (1950)
- Bibliografia de Machado de Assis (1955)
- Fontes para o estudo de Machado de Assis (1958)
- O Teatro no Brasil (1960; 2 volumes)
- Índice de Bibliografia Brasileira (1963)
- Machado de Assis e outros estudos (1979)
- Enciclopédia da Literatura Brasileira (1990)
Notes
- ↑ Coutinho, Afrânio (25/27 de Maio de 1986). "Galante de Sousa," Jornal do Commercio, No. 189, p. 4.
- ↑ Doyle, Plínio (1986). "José Galante de Sousa," Boletim do Conselho Federal de Cultura, Ano 17, Nos. 62/65. p. 31.
References
- Galante de Sousa, José (15/16 de Outubro de 1958). "Um Pouco da História do Meu Livro," Tribuna da Imprensa, No. 1765, p. 4.
