António Maria Lisboa
Born(1928-08-01)1 August 1928
Lisbon, Portugal
Died11 November 1953(1953-11-11) (aged 25)
Lisbon, Portugal
NationalityPortuguese
OccupationPoet
Known forSurrealism

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, João Artur da Silva 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

    1. 1 2 3 4 5 Antônio Maria Lisboa, Instituto Camões.
    2. ↑ Figueiredo Sobral, Itaú Cultural.
    3. 1 2 António Maria Lisboa, Wook.
    4. 1 2 Clube dos Poetas Imortais: António Maria Lisboa, aventar.
    5. ↑ Lisboa, António Maria, Treccani.

    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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