João Carlos de Medeiros Pardal Mallet
João Carlos de Medeiros Pardal Mallet as born on the 9 th December 1864; he died on the 24 th November 1894. He was a Brazilian journali...
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João Carlos de Medeiros Pardal Mallet as born on the 9th
December 1864; he died on the 24th November 1894. He was a Brazilian
journalist and a novelist. He was the occupant of the 30th Brazilian
Academy of Letters.
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Life
Pardal Mallet was born in the city of Bagé, in Rio Grande
do Sul in the year 1864. His father was the popular General João Nepomuceno de
Medeiros Mallet.
Right from his tender
age, Pardal Mallet had strong likeness
for literature; he learned how to speak the French and the English language.
After his primary education, Pardal Mallet moved to the city of Rio de
Janeiro to study medicine in the Faculdade de Medicina
da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, though he never completed the
course, because his teacher threatened to expel him because of his ideals about
the republican. He had to leave medicine and join literature and journalism.
Pardal Mallet moved to the city of Sao Paulo to study law at the Faculdade
de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo, but he completed the course in the
city Recife,
Pernambuco. At the time he was getting his diploma, v refused to swear because
of his ideals of the republican.
He moved back to the
city of Rio and became friend with many writers of the city like Olavo Bilac,
Raul Pompeia, Coelho Neto, Luís Murat, José do Patrocínio, Artur and Aluísio
Azevedo, Émile Rouède and Francisco de Paula Ney
Pardal Mallet became the editor in chief of A Cidade do Rio in the year 1888 and he left the
journal the next year because of political differences.
He got tuberculosis and relocated to the city of Caxambu, in Minas
Gerais, so as to minimize the spread of the disease, he died on the 24th
November 1894.
Works
Ø Meu Álbum (short stories –
1887)
Ø Hóspede (novel – 1887)
Ø Lar (novel – 1888)
Ø A Pandilha (short stories –
1883)
