Saudosismo
In Portuguese literary history, saudosismo denotes a movement of both the renewal of Portuguese poetry and the Portuguese nation ( Renascença Portuguesa ) with a climax in the second decade of the 20th century .
The term is derived from Portuguese saudade , which can only be roughly translated as longing, melancholy.
The founder and main representative of Saudosismo, Joaquim Pereira Teixeira de Pascoaes (recte: de Vasconcelos, 1877–1952), called for a reflection on the very life force of the Portuguese people ( alma portuguesa ), which he saw in the saudade :
- “Saudade is bodily love spiritualized through suffering or spiritual love reified through desire; she is Venus and Mother of God in one woman. It is the synthesis of heaven and earth; the point at which all cosmic forces cross; the center of the universe: the soul of nature in the human soul and the soul of man in the soul of nature. [...] It is a latent state of mind that will be consciousness and Lusitan culture tomorrow ”.
The main characteristic of poetry is the "mystery", the "passionate communication with things" that have not yet been revealed to man. The modern Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935), for some time a supporter of the movement, cited these verses by Teixeira de Pascoaes in 1912 as "representative" of the "elevação" of Saudosismo:
"A folha que tombava
Era alma que subia."
"The leaf that sank down,
was soul that rose up."
Pessoa and Teixeira de Pascoaes decidedly reject the relationship to French symbolism , although not convincingly.
literature
- Fernando Pessoa: A nova poesia portuguesa . Inquérito, Lisboa 1944, pp. 51, 73.
- Jacinto do Prado Coelho: Introduction to "Teixeira de Pascoaes, Obras Completas" . Volume I. Bertrand, Lisboa 1965.
- Georg Rudolf Lind: Teoria poética de Fernando Pessoa . Inova, Porto 1970.