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  Gustavo Corção

  Gustavo Corção foi um escritor e pensador católico brasileiro, autor de diversos livros sobre política e conduta, além de um romance. Foi membro da antiga União Democrática Nacional (UDN) e um expoente do pensamento conservador no Brasil.
  Sua obra é influenciada pelo Distributismo, a apologia católica do escritor inglês G.K. Chesterton, influência extensamente explicada no seu ensaio Três Alqueires e uma Vaca. Entretanto, uma outra influência sobre o seu pensamento veio do filósofo Jacques Maritain.
  Formado engenheiro, Corção só obteve notoriedade no campo das idéias aos 48 anos, ao publicar o livro A Descoberta do Outro, narrativa autobiográfica de sua conversão ao catolicismo (influenciado por Alceu Amoroso Lima). Como engenheiro, era um ap

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  Bruno Tolentino

  Nascido numa tradicional e rica família carioca, conviveu desde criança com intelectuais e escritores, entre eles Cecília Meireles, Manuel Bandeira, Carlos Drummond de Andrade e João Cabral de Melo Neto. Primo do crítico literário brasileiro Antonio Candido e da crítica teatral Bárbara Heliodora, seu avô foi conselheiro do Império e fundador da Caixa Econômica Federal. Nesse ambiente familiar, foi instruído em inglês e francês ao mesmo tempo de sua alfabetização no português.
  
  Publica em 1963 seu primeiro livro, "Anulação e outros reparos". Com o advento do golpe militar de 1964, muda-se para a Europa a convite do poeta Giuseppe Ungaretti, onde viverá trinta anos, tendo residido na Itália, Bélgica, Inglaterra e França. Foi professor de litera

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  Franz Kafka

  Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis " (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.
  
  Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature.
  
  His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony " (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).
  
  Despite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of

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  Georges Simenon

  Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (1903 – 1989) was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret.
  Although he never resided in Belgium after 1922, he remained a Belgian citizen throughout his life.
  
  Simenon was one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, capable of writing 60 to 80 pages per day. His oeuvre includes nearly 200 novels, over 150 novellas, several autobiographical works, numerous articles, and scores of pulp novels written under more than two dozen pseudonyms. Altogether, about 550 million copies of his works have been printed.
  
  He is best known, however, for his 75 novels and 28 short stories

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  Michel Houellebecq

  Michel Houellebecq (born Michel Thomas), born 26 February 1958 (birth certificate) or 1956 on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French novelist. To admirers he is a writer in the tradition of literary provocation that reaches back to the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire; to detractors he is a peddler, who writes vulgar sleazy literature to shock. His works though, particularly Atomised, have received high praise from the French literary intelligentsia, with generally positive international critical response, Having written poetry and a biography of the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, he brought out his first novel Extension du domaine de la lutte in 1994. Les particules élémentaires followed in 1998 and Platefo

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  Rachel de Queiroz

  Quinta ocupante da Cadeira 5, eleita em 4 de agosto de 1977, na sucessão de Candido Motta Filho e recebida pelo Acadêmico Adonias Filho em 4 de novembro de 1977.
  
  Raquel de Queirós nasceu em Fortaleza (CE), em 17 de novembro de 1910, e faleceu no Rio de Janeiro (RJ) em 4 de novembro de 2003. Filha de Daniel de Queirós e de Clotilde Franklin de Queirós, descende, pelo lado materno, da estirpe dos Alencar, parente portanto do autor ilustre de O Guarani, e, pelo lado paterno, dos Queirós, família de raízes profundamente lançadas no Quixadá e Beberibe.
  
  Em 1917, veio para o Rio de Janeiro, em companhia dos pais que procuravam, nessa migração, fugir dos horrores da terrível seca de 1915, que mais tarde a romancista iria aproveitar como tema de O Qui

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  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  A master of poetry, drama, and the novel, German writer and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe spent 50 years on his two-part dramatic poem Faust , published in 1808 and 1832, also conducted scientific research in various fields, notably botany, and held several governmental positions.
  
  George Eliot called him "Germany's greatest man of letters... and the last true polymath to walk the earth." Works span the fields of literature, theology, and humanism.
  People laud this magnum opus as one of the peaks of world literature. Other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther .
  
  With this key figure of German literature, th

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  Albert Camus

  Works, such as the novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel Prize of 1957 for literature.
  
  Origin and his experiences of this representative of non-metropolitan literature in the 1930s dominated influences in his thought and work.
  
  He also adapted plays of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Requiem for a Nun of William Faulkner. One may trace his enjoyment of the theater back to his membership in l'Equipe, an Algerian group, whose "collective creation" Révolte dans les Asturies (1934) was banned for political reasons.
  
  Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectu

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  Bruno Tolentino

  Nascido numa tradicional e rica família carioca, conviveu desde criança com intelectuais e escritores, entre eles Cecília Meireles, Manuel Bandeira, Carlos Drummond de Andrade e João Cabral de Melo Neto. Primo do crítico literário brasileiro Antonio Candido e da crítica teatral Bárbara Heliodora, seu avô foi conselheiro do Império e fundador da Caixa Econômica Federal. Nesse ambiente familiar, foi instruído em inglês e francês ao mesmo tempo de sua alfabetização no português.
  
  Publica em 1963 seu primeiro livro, "Anulação e outros reparos". Com o advento do golpe militar de 1964, muda-se para a Europa a convite do poeta Giuseppe Ungaretti, onde viverá trinta anos, tendo residido na Itália, Bélgica, Inglaterra e França. Foi professor de litera

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  Manuel Antônio de Almeida

  Manuel Antônio de Almeida (November 17, 1831 — November 28, 1861) was a Brazilian writer, medician and teacher. He is famous for the book Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias, written under the pen name Um Brasileiro (English: A Brazilian). He is the patron of the 28th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
  
  de Almeida was born in Rio de Janeiro, to lieutenant Antônio de Almeida and Josefina Maria de Almeida. Few things are known about his years of primary studies — although he entered at the Medicine course in 1849, graduating in 1855. Financial difficulties inspired him to dedicate himself to the literature and to the journalism. His magnum opus, Memórias de um Sargento de Milícias, was initially published in serial form during the years

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  Alexandre Soares Silva

  Alexandre Soares Silva nasceu em São Paulo em 1968. Publicou dois livros de aventuras para adolescentes (“Na Torre do Tombo” e “A Origem dos Irmãos Coyote”) e três romances para adultos (“A Alma da Festa”, “Morte e Vida Celestina”, e “A Coisa Não-Deus”). É talvez o responsável pela onda de conservadores anglófilos com pretensões a dândi na internet brasileira, embora não saiba dar sozinho um nó decente de gravata. Escreveu vários episódios da série de televisão “O Negócio” (HBO).

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  Gustavo Corção

  Gustavo Corção foi um escritor e pensador católico brasileiro, autor de diversos livros sobre política e conduta, além de um romance. Foi membro da antiga União Democrática Nacional (UDN) e um expoente do pensamento conservador no Brasil.
  Sua obra é influenciada pelo Distributismo, a apologia católica do escritor inglês G.K. Chesterton, influência extensamente explicada no seu ensaio Três Alqueires e uma Vaca. Entretanto, uma outra influência sobre o seu pensamento veio do filósofo Jacques Maritain.
  Formado engenheiro, Corção só obteve notoriedade no campo das idéias aos 48 anos, ao publicar o livro A Descoberta do Outro, narrativa autobiográfica de sua conversão ao catolicismo (influenciado por Alceu Amoroso Lima). Como engenheiro, era um ap

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  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)
  
  Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.
  
  Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),
  
  Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .
  
  Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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  W. Somerset Maugham

  William Somerset Maugham was born in Paris in 1874. He spoke French even before he spoke a word of English, a fact to which some critics attribute the purity of his style.
  
  His parents died early and, after an unhappy boyhood, which he recorded poignantly in Of Human Bondage, Maugham became a qualified physician. But writing was his true vocation. For ten years before his first success, he almost literally starved while pouring out novels and plays.
  
  Maugham wrote at a time when experimental modernist literature such as that of William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf was gaining increasing popularity and winning critical acclaim. In this context, his plain prose style was criticized as 'such a tissue of clichés' that one

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  Eça de Queirós

  José Maria Eça de Queirós was a novelist committed to social reform who introduced naturalism and realism to Portugal. He is often considered to be the greatest Portuguese novelist, certainly the leading 19th-century Portuguese novelist whose fame was international. The son of a prominent magistrate, Eça de Queiroz spent his early years with relatives and was sent to boarding school at the age of five. After receiving his degree in law in 1866 from the University of Coimbra, where he read widely French, he settled in Lisbon. There his father, who had since married Eça de Queiroz' mother, made up for past neglect by helping the young man make a start in the legal profession. Eça de Queiroz' real interest lay in literature, however, and soon

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  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

  Tomasi was born in Palermo to Giulio Maria Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa and Duke of Palma di Montechiaro, and Beatrice Mastrogiovanni Tasca Filangieri di Cutò. He became an only child after the death (from diphtheria) of his sister. He was very close to his mother, a strong personality who influenced him a great deal, especially because his father was rather cold and detached. As a child he studied in their grand house in Palermo with a tutor (including the subjects of literature and English), with his mother (who taught him French), and with a grandmother who read him the novels of Emilio Salgari. In the little theater of the house in Santa Margherita di Belice, where he spent long vacations, he first saw a performance of Shakespeare's Haml

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  Alexandre Soares Silva

  Alexandre Soares Silva nasceu em São Paulo em 1968. Publicou dois livros de aventuras para adolescentes (“Na Torre do Tombo” e “A Origem dos Irmãos Coyote”) e três romances para adultos (“A Alma da Festa”, “Morte e Vida Celestina”, e “A Coisa Não-Deus”). É talvez o responsável pela onda de conservadores anglófilos com pretensões a dândi na internet brasileira, embora não saiba dar sozinho um nó decente de gravata. Escreveu vários episódios da série de televisão “O Negócio” (HBO).

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