Biografía:
Rio de Janeiro, 1896 A writer, journalist and Brazilian Fine Arts artist. His most important work: : “A menina morta” (1954), deals with slavery in Brazil mixing the realism with the dreamland fantasy, in a way that has no been dealt with before. Augusto Federicco Schmidt said about this novel: “ Nothing more amazing had been written before about slavery in Brazil than some of the chapters of this wonderful novel: “another critic, Alfredo Bosi wrote: “the poetry of this magnificent work is precisely in the reduction of a bulk of images towards the atmosphere of pain and oppression that the absence of the little girl incites in each character, as a light that is known to be off for ever and his memory only illuminates the grief of what was left”. Pena began to use the legends and the charms near the fantastic universe of Edgar Alan Poe tools that he slowly left behind, giving more importance to the observation of daily life and social history, so he could give free rein to his fantasy. Pena seems to start from, as the Cortazar of the fantastic stories, a simple and daily fact that ends reaching the rein of the unusual and the imaginary. Only that he does it the other way around: he describes the disturbing atmosphere of human relations, and from a new scope almost surrealist, he erased the frontiers between normal and the mysterious things. Cornelio Pena left some keys to understand his narrative work: “intense and mix up evocation”, “lazy memory”, and suffocating dream”. Corneli de Oliveira Pena left some other important titles: “Fronteira” (1935), “Dois romances de Nico Horta” (1939), y “Repouso” (1948).
