Mario de Sá-Carneiro

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Mario de Sá-Carneiro

Mário de Sá-Carneiro (born May 19, 1890 in Lisbon , † April 26, 1916 in Paris ) was a Portuguese poet and writer . Together with Fernando Pessoa , he was important as one of the founders of the literary modernism of Portugal.

Life

Mário de Sá-Carneiro was born in Lisbon in 1890 in a middle-class, wealthy family, his father was an engineer . When his parents' only child was two years old, his mother died.

In 1910 he published the play Amizade ("Friendship") together with his school friend Tomas Cabreira Junior . Tomas Cabreira Junior died of suicide in 1911 .

Multiple visited Mário de Sá-Carneiro Paris to there Jura to study, first in 1912, then temporarily in 1914 and 1915 to 1916.

In 1913 he met Fernando Pessoa, with whom a close friendship developed.

His best-known work is the novel A Confissão de Lúcio ("Lucio's Confession"), published in 1914 , an intricate web of relationships between a woman and two decadent poets in fin de siècle Paris . The book illuminates the entire world of Sá-Carneiro and the search for identity that has accompanied him throughout his life.

Sá-Carneiro also published poems in both editions of the literary magazine Orpheu (1915), which was largely funded by his father.

During his time in Paris since 1915, there was an unsteady bohemian life and an unhappy love affair, as well as financial problems. On April 26, 1916, Sá-Carneiro ended his life in a Paris hotel.

His complete works appeared posthumously in 1946 .

Mário de Sá-Carneiro had a great influence on the following generations of Portuguese poets, but was always overshadowed by Fernando Pessoa. Sá-Carneiro is almost unknown in Germany.

Sá-Carneiro's work is characterized by the theme of death and a certain longing for death .

Works (selection)

  • Amizade (friendship). Play. 1910
  • Princípio (beginning). Stories. 1912
  • O homem de Sonhos (The man of dreams) and O Fixador de Instantes (The fixer of moments). Stories. A Águia 1913
  • A Alma (The Soul). Play. 1913
  • Dispersão (dissolution). Poetry. 1914
  • A Confissão de Lúcio. Novel. 1914,
  • O Ceu em Fogo (The sky on fire). Stories. 1915
  • Indícios de Oiro . Poetry. Posthumous 1937
  • The madness . Three stories. Translated from the Portuguese by Frank Henseleit. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95757-228-8 .

swell

  • Major works of Spanish and Portuguese literature. P. 783, ff. Kindler's new literary dictionary,
  • Knauer's Lexicon of World Literature.
  • Berthold Zilly: Epilogue: Narcissus and Icarus. In: Mário de Sá-Carneiro: Lúcio's Confession. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997, pp. 121-134

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personal data
SURNAME Sá-Carneiro, Mário de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1916
Place of death Paris