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- Morte e Vida Severina (literally, Severine Life and Death, translated by Elizabeth Bishop as The Death and Life of a Severino) is a play in verse by Brazilian author João Cabral de Melo Neto, one of his most famous and frequently read works. Published in 1955 and written between 1954 and 1955, the play is divided into 18 sections and written in heptasyllabic meter, recalling the cordel, a form the popular poetry of northeastern Brazil, where Melo Neto was born and lived for most of his life. Morte e Vida Severina is subtitled Auto de Natal Pernambucano (Auto of Pernambucan Christmas), in a reference to both the biblical perspective of the word and in a broader sense of a new beginning for life at its entirety. The play recounts the journey of a retirante called Severino, who, fleeing from the poverty and the droughts that ravage the northeastern region of Brazil, follows the to the fertile lands nearer to the shore and then to the capital city of Recife, only to meet differents forms of poverty and exploitation. The “retirantes” had also been the theme of the famous novel Vidas Secas by Graciliano Ramos, albeit under a very different point of view. The auto evolves into an allegorical account that parallels Nativity of Jesus and reflects the possibility for a meaningful life amid the harshness of the sertão. (en)
- Morte e Vida Severina é um livro de poema regionalista e modernista do escritor brasileiro João Cabral de Melo Neto, escrito entre 1954 e 1955 e publicado em 1955. A obra narra o sofrimento enfrentado por Severino apresentando um poema dramático que relata a dura trajetória de um migrante sertanejo (retirante) em busca de uma vida mais fácil e favorável na capital pernambucana. (pt)
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- "- The grave you're in
Is measured by hand,
The best bargain you got
In all the land.
– You fit it well,
Not too long or deep,
The part of the latifundio
Which you will keep.
– The grave's not too big,
Nor is it too wide,
It's the land you wanted
To see them divide.
– It's a big grave
For a body so spare,
But you’ll be more at ease
Than you ever were.
– You're a skinny corpse
For such a big tomb,
But at least down there
You’ll have plenty of room." (en)
- "And there's no better answer
Than to see life
Unravel its thread,
Which is also called life,
See the factory
Life itself stubbornly makes.
See it sprout and grow, like now,
Explode into a new life,
Even when the explosion,
Like that which too place,
Is so small.
Even when it's so puny,
Even when it's that of
A severe, Severino life.” (en)
- "– My name is Severino,
I have no Christian name.
There are lots of Severinos
so they began to call me
Maria's Severino.
There are many Severinos
With mothers called Maria,
So I became Marias's
Of Zacarias, deceased."
-Morte e Vida Severina by João Cabral de Melo Neto (en)
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- Morte e Vida Severina last stanza (en)
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- Morte e Vida Severina é um livro de poema regionalista e modernista do escritor brasileiro João Cabral de Melo Neto, escrito entre 1954 e 1955 e publicado em 1955. A obra narra o sofrimento enfrentado por Severino apresentando um poema dramático que relata a dura trajetória de um migrante sertanejo (retirante) em busca de uma vida mais fácil e favorável na capital pernambucana. (pt)
- Morte e Vida Severina (literally, Severine Life and Death, translated by Elizabeth Bishop as The Death and Life of a Severino) is a play in verse by Brazilian author João Cabral de Melo Neto, one of his most famous and frequently read works. Published in 1955 and written between 1954 and 1955, the play is divided into 18 sections and written in heptasyllabic meter, recalling the cordel, a form the popular poetry of northeastern Brazil, where Melo Neto was born and lived for most of his life. (en)
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