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Álvares de Azevedo

1831 - 1852

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Manuel Antônio Álvares de Azevedo (September 12, 1831 – April 25, 1852), affectionately called "Maneco" by his close friends, relatives and admirers, was a Brazilian Romantic poet, short story writer, playwright and essayist, considered to be one of the major exponents of Ultra-Romanticism and Gothic literature in Brazil. His works tend to play heavily with opposite notions, such as love and death, platonism and sarcasm, sentimentalism and pessimism, among others, and have a strong influence of Musset, Chateaubriand, Lamartine, Goethe, Heine and – above all – Byron. All of his works were published posthumously due to his premature death at only 20 years old after a horse-riding accident. They acquired a strong cult following as years went by, particularly among youths of the goth subculture. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Álvares de Azevedo is the 5,437th most popular writer (down from 5,063rd in 2019), the 685th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 590th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Brazilian Writer.

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Among writers, Álvares de Azevedo ranks 5,437 out of 7,302. Before him are John Holt, Robert Coover, Fran Lebowitz, Lev Mei, Carine Roitfeld, and Ingrid Noll. After him are Lucius Shepard, Zośka Vieras, Chaim Potok, Konstantin Vasilyevich Ivanov, William Cobbett, and Robert Christgau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Álvares de Azevedo ranks 97. Before him are Filippo Marchetti, George Nares, Frederick Townsend Ward, Paul du Bois-Reymond, Ignatius L. Donnelly, and Manuel Antônio de Almeida. After him are Mariano Baptista, Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, John Bell Hood, Adolfo Ballivián, John Schofield, and Harry Atkinson. Among people deceased in 1852, Álvares de Azevedo ranks 61. Before him are José Ballivián, Jacques Bernard Hombron, Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, František Čelakovský, Christoph Gudermann, and Francisco Javier Echeverría. After him are Rose Philippine Duchesne, Frances Wright, Walter Forward, John George Children, Andrew Jackson Downing, and Horatio Greenough.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Álvares de Azevedo ranks 685 out of 2,236. Before him are Fritz d'Orey (1938), Brandãozinho (1925), Maurício Gugelmin (1963), Manuel Antônio de Almeida (1831), Marcos Roberto Silveira Reis (1973), and Ariel Nogueira (1910). After him are Paulo Emilio (1936), Antônio Parreiras (1860), Alberto Nepomuceno (1864), Hernanes (1985), Luiz Carlos Ferreira (1958), and Ivan Mariz (1910).

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Among WRITERS In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, Álvares de Azevedo ranks 34. Before him are Manuel Bandeira (1886), João Cabral de Melo Neto (1920), João Ubaldo Ribeiro (1941), Erico Verissimo (1905), Castro Alves (1847), and Manuel Antônio de Almeida (1831). After him are Casimiro de Abreu (1839), Gregório de Matos (1636), Júlia Lopes de Almeida (1862), Joaquim Manuel de Macedo (1820), Ferreira Gullar (1930), and Alberto Dines (1932).

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