Jump to content
 







Main menu
   


Navigation  



Main page
Contents
Current events
Random article
About Wikipedia
Contact us
Donate
 




Contribute  



Help
Learn to edit
Community portal
Recent changes
Upload file
 








Search  

































Create account

Log in
 









Create account
 Log in
 




Pages for logged out editors learn more  



Contributions
Talk
 



















Contents

   



(Top)
 


1 Biography  





2 Trivia  





3 Works  





4 References  





5 External links  














Mário de Alencar






مصرى
Português
 

Edit links
 









Article
Talk
 

















Read
Edit
View history
 








Tools
   


Actions  



Read
Edit
View history
 




General  



What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Cite this page
Get shortened URL
Download QR code
Wikidata item
 




Print/export  



Download as PDF
Printable version
 




In other projects  



Wikimedia Commons
 
















Appearance
   

 






From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 


Mário de Alencar
BornMário Cochrane de Alencar
(1872-01-30)30 January 1872
Rio de Janeiro, Empire of Brazil
Died8 December 1925(1925-12-08) (aged 53)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Pen nameJohn Alone
OccupationPoet, short story writer, journalist, novelist, lawyer
Alma materUniversity of São Paulo
RelativesJosé de Alencar, José Martiniano Pereira de Alencar, Leonel Martiniano de Alencar

Mário Cochrane de Alencar (30 January 1872 – 8 December 1925) was a Brazilian poet, short story writer, journalist, lawyer and novelist. He was one of the children of famous novelist José de Alencar.

He occupied the 21st chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1905 until his death in 1925.

Biography

[edit]

Born in Rio de Janeiro, to famous novelist José de Alencar and Georgina Augusta Cochrane, daughter of a British aristocrat. He was the grandson of politician José Martiniano Pereira de Alencar, nephew of diplomat Leonel Martiniano de Alencar, the Baron of Alencar, and brother of politician and diplomat Augusto de Alencar. He made his primary studies in the Colégio Pedro II and graduated in law at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo.

He collaborated for newspapers such as Brasilea (1917), Correio do Povo (1880), Gazeta de Notícias (1894), O Imparcial and A Imprensa (1900), Jornal do Commercio, O Mundo Literário, Renascença, Revista Brasileira (1895–1899) and the Official Magazine of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. He wrote under the pen names Deina and John Alone in some of those.

Trivia

[edit]

Chronicler Carlos Heitor Cony alleges that Mário could have been an illegitimate son of Machado de Assis, since both Mário and Joaquim suffered from epilepsy, while José de Alencar did not. Mário also called Machado de Assis "father" constantly in his letters addressed to him. This affair allegedly served as inspiration for Assis' famous novel Dom Casmurro.[1]

Works

[edit]

References

[edit]
[edit]
Preceded by

José do Patrocínio (founder)


Brazilian Academy of Letters – Occupant of the 21st chair

1905–1925
Succeeded by

Olegário Mariano


Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mário_de_Alencar&oldid=1168806364"

Categories: 
1872 births
1925 deaths
Writers from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Brazilian people of British descent
Brazilian male novelists
Brazilian male poets
Brazilian male short story writers
Brazilian journalists
Brazilian male journalists
Members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters
University of São Paulo alumni
Portuguese-language writers
20th-century Brazilian poets
20th-century Brazilian short story writers
20th-century Brazilian male writers
20th-century Brazilian novelists
Brazilian people of Scottish descent
Hidden categories: 
Articles with Portuguese-language sources (pt)
Articles with short description
Short description matches Wikidata
Use dmy dates from April 2020
Articles with FAST identifiers
Articles with ISNI identifiers
Articles with VIAF identifiers
Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
Articles with BNE identifiers
Articles with GND identifiers
Articles with LCCN identifiers
Articles with NTA identifiers
Articles with PortugalA identifiers
Articles with SUDOC identifiers
 



This page was last edited on 5 August 2023, at 04:43 (UTC).

Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.



Privacy policy

About Wikipedia

Disclaimers

Contact Wikipedia

Code of Conduct

Developers

Statistics

Cookie statement

Mobile view



Wikimedia Foundation
Powered by MediaWiki