Tomas Cabreira junior

Tomás Cabreira Júnior (* 1891 in Portugal ; † 9.1. 1911 in Lisbon , Portugal) was a Portuguese amateur author. He became famous for his intimate friendship with Mário de Sá-Carneiro and his tragic life. His life is an example of the problem of sensitivity in Portugal at the turn of the century.

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Tomás Cabreira junior came from the old Algarvian aristocracy . His father was the well-known politician, freemason, former finance minister, military and author Tomas Cabreira senior (1865-1918). He was the only child and was conceived out of wedlock. While his stepmother passed away at an early age, the boy became neglected because his father was not interested in him and did not participate in the upbringing. In fact, the boy was raised by a servant.

Cabreira is described as being hypersensitive. He was nearsighted, short, unnaturally shy, and homosexual . The weak boy found only in the fat and sensitive Mário de Sá-Carneiro a loyal friend and intimate , with whom he often discussed literature and art for hours. He actually wanted to be a poet and actor, but his father had other plans for the boy. When the father discovered his amorous passions for classmates, he was heavily sanctioned, which made his life even more difficult. Cabreira had been attending the Liceu São Domingos in Lisbon since 1905, where he shot himself out of desperation over his life during a break. Before that, he had burned all of his literary work. Mário de Sá-Carneiro ran through the whole school after the news of his death and shouted that Tomás was dead, in every class.

Together with Sá-Carneiro he had written the three-act play Amizade (Friendship), which was even premiered in the Teatro do Clube Estefania on March 23, 1912; At this point in time, the co-author Cabreira was already dead. The work was also published as a book in 1912. It remained the only published work by Cabreira. The only title of a work by Cabreira that was destroyed and still survived was Musmé , which only Mário de Sá-Carneiro had read and was a play.

Due to the death of Cabreira, Sá-Carneiro began writing poetry and one of his first poems was dedicated to the dead friend and was titled A um Suicida , 1911.

The uncle Anónio Cabreira conciliatory wrote a biography about the sad and tragic life of his nephew; one of the very first biographies of prominent homosexuals in Portugal with the title Através da Vida e através da Morte , 1920 (Beyond Life and Beyond Death).

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• www.books.google.de/books?/id=B-KR4v.RKO28C&pg=PR16
• www.abebooks.com/book-search/Kne/amizade-m%E1ri