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Lupe Cotrim or Lupe Cotrim Garaude; born Maria José Cotrim Garaude (São Paulo, March 16, 1933 – Campos do Jordão, February 18, 1970); was a Brazilian poet and university professor.[1]

She is a prominent figure among the Brazilian poets who emerged in the second half of the 20th century. With a philosophical background, her work is marked by cultured, aristocratic and sober language, in which he resorted to symbols and metaphors to express herself, doing so with remarkable economy of words. Lupe Cotrim developed her own and independent path, moving from confessional and intimate poetry to poetry marked by social criticism. As a teacher, she taught in the early years of the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo (ECA/USP), whose academic center bears her name – Centro Acadêmico Lupe Cotrim (CALC).

Lupe Cotrim died at the age of 36 from cancer.[2] Since 2007, the Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros (IEB) has been the repository of the collection of the teacher-poet.[3]

Trajectory

Maria José Cotrim Garaude is the daughter of Maria de Lourdes Lins Cotrim and doctor Pedro Garaude. Born on March 16, 1933, in the city of São Paulo; she was nicknamed Lupe since she was a child, a reference to the first syllables of her parents' given names. Lupe Cotrim moved with her family to Araçatuba and spent her childhood there.[2] After her parents' separation, Lupe and her mother moved to the city of Rio de Janeiro, where she studied at Colégio Bennett. In 1949, she moved back to São Paulo to be closer to her father and integrate into the paulista cultural environment.[4]

Lupe completed her secondary studies at Colégio Des Oiseaux and finished, in 1952, her first graduation in the Librarianship and Culture course at Instituto Sedes Sapientiae in São Paulo. Still in the 1950s, she studied literature, languages, arts and opera singing.[5]

Between 1961 and 1963, Lupe presented, with the journalist Joaquim Pinto Nazário, the TV program A Semana Passada a Limpo,[6] in which they addressed facts that occurred during the week in the fields of politics, literature and the arts. Previously, she produced and presented, together with the writer Helena Silveira, the program Mulher, Confidencialmente (Woman, Confidentially), both aired by São Paulo television channels.[7] Lupe Cotrim worked at Caixa Econômica Federal, between 1963 and 1967, at the invitation of Joaquim Pinto Nazário, then vice-president of the bank.[8] She also worked as an actress by making a brief appearance in A Morte da Strip-Teaser (1969), the first short film by director Eduardo Leone, at the time her student.[9]

At the age of 30, with four books published and the fifth on the way, Lupe Cotrim took the exams to take a degree in Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of the University of São Paulo (USP).[10] She joined the course in 1963 and graduated in 1966.[5] Lupe Cotrim sought in Philosophy conditions of possibility to reflect on language, rethink the effusion of the lyrical self in her writing and better understand the world.[11] During that period, based on the works of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, João Cabral de Melo Neto and Francis Ponge, Lupe scrutinized possibilities for a certain type of "phenomenological poetry".[12]

In correspondence with the poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade, her friend and interlocutor, Lupe wrote that:

I entered the Faculty of Philosophy, I had been dating it from afar for years. My realization as a poet will only come true to the extent of my conception of the world – I want to give [my poetry] the objectivity it needs. [And communicated to her friend:] You can't imagine how admired and loved you are among the professors (all young, cultured, intelligent, a Brazil that gives rise to the greatest hope). His poetry is felt and understood deep down.[12]

At the same university, Lupe began her doctorate in Aesthetics,[13] under the guidance of Gilda de Mello e Souza, with research on the poetics of the French writer Francis Ponge, however, due to her premature death - in 1970 due to cancer -, she did not complete it.[14][12]

References

  1. ^ Gouvêa, Leila V. B. (2010). "Ser Poeta: Lupe Cotrim, 40 Anos Depois". ARS. 8 (15). Scielo: 139. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
  2. ^ a b "Morreu Lupe C. Garaude". O Estado de S. Paulo – Acervo Estadão. 1970-02-19. p. 16. Retrieved 2022-02-22.
  3. ^ "Lupe Cotrim Garaude". Catálogo Eletrônico IEB/USP. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
  4. ^ Gouvêa, Leila V. B. (2011). Estrela Breve : Lupe Cotrim : uma biografia literária. Imprensa Oficial. p. 273. ISBN 9788570609625.
  5. ^ a b "Nota Biográfica – Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros (IEB-USP)". Retrieved 2012-02-01.
  6. ^ "São Paulo não pode parar – TV". Revista do Rádio (RJ) (619). Biblioteca Nacional Digital Brasil: 41. 1961. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  7. ^ "Crítica do Rádio e Televisão – "Mulher, confidencialmente" TV Paulista (São Paulo)". Revista do Rádio (RJ) (503). Biblioteca Nacional Digital Brasil: 60. 1959. Retrieved 2022-02-24.
  8. ^ Rector, Marina Claudia (Org.) (1990). Lupe Cotrim. Simpósio em Comunicações e Artes, 7. Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo. p. 45. ISBN 8572050086.
  9. ^ A MORTE da strip-teaser. Directed by Eduardo Leone. ECA-USP [production]. Brazil: ECA/USP, 1969. 1 roll (25 min); optical sound, p&b: 16 mm
  10. ^ Gouvêa, Leila V. B. (2011). Estrela Breve : Lupe Cotrim : uma biografia literária. Imprensa Oficial. p. 17. ISBN 9788570609625.
  11. ^ Gouvêa, Leila V. B. (2011). Estrela Breve : Lupe Cotrim : uma biografia literária. Imprensa Oficial. p. 18. ISBN 9788570609625.
  12. ^ a b c Gouvêa, Leila V. B. (2010). "Ser poeta: Lupe Cotrim, 40 anos depois". ARS. 8 (15). Scielo: 142. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
  13. ^ Gouvea, Leila V. B. (2011). Estrela breve : Lupe Cotrim: uma biografia literaria. Imprensa Oficial do Estado de São Paulo. p. 8. ISBN 978-8570609625.
  14. ^ Gouvêa, Leila V. B. (2009-03-01). "Lupe Cotrim: algumas lições do amigo". Revista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros (48). Portal de Revistas USP: 58–59. doi:10.11606/issn.2316-901X.v0i48p53-76. ISSN 2316-901X. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
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