Walmir
Ayala (January 4, 1933 - August 28, 1991) was a poet, novelist, short story writer, columnist, playwright and art critic.
He was also renowned as the author of numerous stories for children and young people.Queer Places:
Casa de Cultura Walmir Ayala, R. Cel. Madureira, 77 - Centro, Saquarema - RJ, 28990-000, Brazil
Walmir
Ayala (January 4, 1933 - August 28, 1991) was a poet, novelist, short story writer, columnist, playwright and art critic.
He was also renowned as the author of numerous stories for children and young people.
Few pages of An animal of God lead to the conclusion that the character Mario is the double of the author Walmir Ayala. It is novelization of the murder of Ayala's mother, killed by her husband. The motivation would have been the adultery. The history of the parents was, in part, recreated in By the body (Letters and arts/1964). About Oysters are dying (Editora Leitura/2007), which won posthumous edition, confessed to the gaucho writer Paulo Hecker Filho, on January 17, 1984: "I wrote with pleasure this story, mixing with the many people I met the characters, and with whom I deprived. Or starting point was a crime of passion that occurred in Curitiba, more or less five years" (Letter to Paulo Hecker Filho/PUC Collection).
According to issue 22 of the gauchoauthors collection, launched by the State Institute of Book, Ayala said to Zênia Dirani: "I have a daily compulsion to transform all existential events into literary experience". It was a talk of you full of homoeroticism – at least during the years 1960. Who knows a little of the writers with whom Ayala lived, soon recognizes, in An animal of God, that the character Ana is Maria Helena Cardoso (1903-1977), sister of Lúcio Cardoso, in the house of whom the gaucho lived some time.
The gaucho Francisco Bittencourt, a friend of Ayala's for a long time, also walked the same paths.
In An animal of God, religiosity was analyzed in biographical retrospect, showing a boy without a mother, lonely, frightened, finding refuge in prayers and singing in the church choir. Childhood and adolescence were in Porto Alegre, where he had to deal with some strangeness by easily identified sexual orientation. In 1956, Ayala fled Rio Grande do Sul. The going of homosexuals from the world of letters and other arts, from the South to the Southeast, was a diaspora, even if Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo have concentrated the migrants: Francis Bittencourt, João Antônio de Souza Mascarenhas, Walmir Ayala – the first two were members of the team that created the legendary newspaper Lampião da Esquina (1978-1981). Djalma of Alegrete, Hilton Papini and Caio Fernando Abreu are others who are gone.
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