António Maria Lisboa
| António Maria Lisboa | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
1 August 1928 Lisbon, Portugal |
| Died |
11 November 1953 (aged 25) Lisbon, Portugal |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Known for | Surrealism |
António Maria Lisboa (1 August 1928 – 11 November 1953) was a Portuguese surrealist poet.
Life
Antônio Maria Lisboa was born on 1 August 1928 in Lisbon. He studied at the Ensino Téchnico. He formed a small surrealist group in 1947 with Pedro Oom and Henrique Risques Pereira.[1] Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos and Figueiredo Sobral were also members of this group.[2] He became a lasting friend of Cesariny.[1] The two poets wrote Afixação Proibida (Display Prohibited), an important manifesto of Portuguese surrealism which initiated the movement in Portugal.[3] Lisboa and Cesariny became the two leading surrealist poets in Portugal.[4]
Lisboa spent two months in Paris starting in March 1949. This is probably where he came in contact with Hinduism, Egyptology and occult subjects.[1] Lisboa's work contains elements of the occult and esoteric.[3] His work expressed loneliness and an obsession with death in gaunt, ironic and irreverent language.[5] On his return to Lisbon he collaborated in the Surrealist Exhibition with poems and drawings with strange titles.[1] Antônio Maria Lisboa contracted tuberculosis, which proved fatal.[1] He died in Lisbon on 11 November 1953, aged 25.[4]
Works
- Afixação Proibida (1949);
- Erro Próprio (1950);
- Ossóptico (1952);
- Isso Ontem Único (Lisbon, 1953);
- A Verticalidade e a Chave (Lisbon, 1956);
- Exercícios sobre o Sonho e a Vigília de Alfred Jarry seguido de O Senhor Cágado e o Menino (Lisbon, 1958);
- Uma Carta: Estrela da Ilha em Puros Ministros (Lisbon, 1958)
- Poesia de António Maria Lisboa (org. Mário Cesariny, Lisbon, 1962)
References
Sources
- "Antônio Maria Lisboa" (in Portuguese). Instituto Camões. 2001. Retrieved 2015-04-07.
- "António Maria Lisboa". Wook (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2015-04-08.
- "Clube dos Poetas Imortais: António Maria Lisboa (1928-1953)". aventar (in Portuguese). 2009-06-12. Retrieved 2015-04-07.
- "Figueiredo Sobral". Itaú Cultural (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2015-03-15.
- "Lisboa, António Maria". Enciclopedia (in Italian). Treccani, La Cultura Italiana. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
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