News from the war in Mário de Sá-Carneiro’s correspondance

Authors

  • Maria Manuela Parreira da Silva Universidade Nova de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2016v21n2p12

Abstract

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2016v21n2p12

Living in Paris since 1912, Mário de Sá-Carneiro witnessed in anguish the outbreak of the 1914-1918 War. However, the letters he exchanged with his friends Fernando Pessoa and José Pacheco conveyed no news about the evolution of military operations or any critical analysis of the causes and circumstances of the conflict. His real interest lied in the transformation suffered by the once-upon-a-time-city-of-lights and the inevitability of having to leave, even temporarily, the place where his art was able to find its raw material and where his talent found its real “inspiration”. In Sá-Carneiro, art and life contaminate each other, but the artist always surpasses the man. Therefore, his letters are, for the most part, literary fragments or pages, showing a transfigured and very personal vision of the war and, above all, of his “Paris at war”, a bleak and desolate city, a place with which he intimately identified himself.

Author Biography

Maria Manuela Parreira da Silva, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Professora auxiliar do Departamento de Estudos Portugueses da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, onde lecciona as cadeiras de Cultura Portuguesa do Século XX (licenciatura), Literatura Portuguesa do Século XX, Estudos Pessoanos e Estudos do Modernismo. Desde 1988, estuda e investiga o espólio pessoano. Publicações/Edições de texto: Fernando Pessoa, Correspondência Inédita, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte,1996; Fernando Pessoa, Correspondência, vols. I e II, Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 1998-9; Fernando Pessoa, O Banqueiro Anarquista, Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 1999; Ricardo Reis, Poesia, Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2000; Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Correspondência para Fernando Pessoa, Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2001; Ricardo Reis, Prosa de Ricardo Reis, Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2003; Fernando Pessoa, Poesia, vols. I, II e III, Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2006 [em colaboração com Ana Maria Freitas e Madalena Dine]; Cartas de Amor de Fernando Pessoa e Ofélia Queiroz, Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2012; Fernando Pessoa, O Regresso dos Deuses e outros escritos de António Mora, Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2013.

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Published

2016-12-06

How to Cite

SILVA, Maria Manuela Parreira da. News from the war in Mário de Sá-Carneiro’s correspondance. Anuário de Literatura, [S. l.], v. 21, n. 2, p. 12–20, 2016. DOI: 10.5007/2175-7917.2016v21n2p12. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/literatura/article/view/2175-7917.2016v21n2p12. Acesso em: 5 feb. 2025.

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 2 (2016)

Section

Dossiê "Mário de Sá-Carneiro: Eu-próprio o Outro: 100 anos depois"

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