Benedito Nunes

Benedito Nunes (November 21, 1929 - February 27, 2011) was a Brazilian philosopher and literary critic. He was born Benedito José Viana da Costa Nunes in Belém, a major city in the north of Brazil, where he was later a professor at the Federal University of Pará. He has also lectured at other universities in the south of Brazil, France and the United States.^{[citation needed]} In 1987, he was awarded the Prêmio Jabuti, regarded as the most prestigious literary prize in Brazil. He was awarded again with the same prize in 2010, for the literary critique A Clave do Poético.^[1] He was one of the most respected authorities in contemporary Brazilian culture, and a specialist in the literary work of Brazilian modernists such as Clarice Lispector. Benedito Nunes died in his hometown Belém on February 27, 2011.^[2][3]

Works

• Passagem para o poético - Filosofia e Poesia em Heidegger, 1968;
• O Dorso do Tigre (from the collection Debates- literary and philosophical essays), 1969;
• João Cabral de Melo Neto (from the collection Poetas Modernos do Brasil), 1974;
• Oswald Canibal (from the collection Elos), 1979;
• No tempo da narrativa, 1988;
• O drama da linguagem - Uma leitura de Clarice Lispector, 1989;
• Introdução à Filosofia da Arte, 1989;
• A Filosofia Contemporânea, 1991;
• No tempo do niilismo e outros ensaios, 1993;
• Crivo de papel (literary and philosophical essays), 1998;
• Hermenêutica e poesia - O pensamento poético, 1999;
• Dois Ensaios e Duas Lembranças, 2000;
• O Nietzsche de Heidegger, 2000;
• Heidegger e Ser e Tempo, 2002.

Notes

External links

• Interview with Benedito Nunes in the page of Federal University of Pará (in Portuguese)

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