There are more than 34 thousand digitalized images that include 11 thousand original documents of the writer, poet and journalist Vinicius de Moraes. Poems, prose texts, lyrics, pieces, scripts, speeches, letters and notes from this personal collection will be in public consultation from 27 May.
More than 11 thousand documents by the Brazilian writer Vinicius de Moraes will be made available for online consultation, in a project that digitized his personal collection, deposited in the Archive-Museum of Brazilian Literature of the Casa de Rui Barbosa Foundation, in Rio de Janeiro.
As of May 27, poems, prose texts, lyrics, pieces, scripts, speeches, letters and notes from this personal collection by Vinicius de Moraes will be available for online consultation in collection.viniciusdemoraes.com.br, organized by the group VM Cultural.
The promoters of the project, which had the coordination and participation of Julia Moraes and Marcus Moraes, respectively granddaughter and great-nephew of Vinicius de Moraes, inform that the site was created to “digitally preserve the archive, encourage research and democratize access to the work of the 'carioca' poet, composer, playwright, journalist and diplomat ”, as read in a statement released this Friday.
There are six thousand records that include more than 11 thousand original documents, including manuscripts and typed texts, totaling more than 34 thousand digitized images. When going through the collection, particularities of the Brazilian poet's creation process are revealed in annotations, corrections, remakes or excerpts. “From the point of view of those who want to understand the literary and creative processes, the collection is very rich. It is a map of creation. Not only are they correct, there are errors as well. I believe that this values all artists ”, evaluated Julia Moraes.