Soeiro Pereira Gomes

Joaquim Pereira Gomes Soeiro ( born April 14, 1909 in Gestaçô, community baião, District of Porto, Portugal, † December 3, 1949 in Lisbon, Portugal) was a Portuguese communist, writer and politician. As a writer, he was one of the founders of the Portuguese neo-realism, as a politician, one of the leading Communists alongside Alvaro Cunhal in the 20th century in Portugal.

Life

Soeiro Pereira Gomes was born in rural conditions as the son of Alexandre Gomes Pereira Gomes and Celestina Soeiro. He had six other siblings. From his sixth up to the age of 10 he lived with his godmother in Espinho, then, from the age of 11, he attended an agricultural boarding school, the Escola Agrícola de Coimbra, that he graduated with a diploma at the age of 19 years. Led by youthful adventures urge he hired at a company that was looking for workers for Angola and went in 1930 in the former Portuguese colony. However, a year later he returned because the working conditions had shaken him and he could not tolerate the climate. This experience made ​​sure that he was already in the banned Communist Party of Portugal (PCP ) committed. In 1931 he married Manuela Cancio Rice, with whom he moved to Alhandra in the same year. There he succeeded, though no one officially knew of his membership in the Communist party to enforce various things at the local level. He succeeded with other colleagues, that in the city, a swimming pool was built, a school for illiterate and a public library. As an official of the local swimming association he could hide behind his political action club work. Professionally, since 1934, he was henceforth employed in Alhandra in the cement company Cemento Tagus office.

As an author he made ​​her first appearance with the release of short stories in various magazines left from 1939 which, although officially publish, but were allowed to practice any criticism of the state. So his story O Capataz was banned by the censors, other stories first appeared in magazines such as O Diabo or sol Nascentes. Through his publications, he received within the working literary scene reasonably well known and welcomed in their homes such well-known authors such as Alexandre Cabral, Sidonio Muralha or even Alves Redol.

Nationally known he was when he strike leader of a workers' strike, which paralyzed the Baixo Alentejo region for complete two days. Thus he first arrived with fascist authorities, especially the secret service PIDE in contact. From then on, allowed to monitor him at first, and observe to check later on how to get him " physically approaching " - ie kill him - could. He went into the ground, had to live the rest of life with aliases, various regions of the country to avoid ( especially in the north of Portugal ) and was until his death on the run. How did he live in this time and which is not yet finalized explored.

In the underground, he was involved 1940-1942 instrumental in the reorganization of the PCP. Also on the ground his first book, Esteiros (1941 ), a novel that was published in a left- Verlag, which officially does not exist. ( The book of course could not be bought at the bookstore, but was sent by the hand to various interested parties ). Content of the book was the children's work, which was at that time still quite large in Portugal. For Esteiros his friend Alvaro Cunhal who could flee abroad, which was Gomes never succeeded contributed illustrations. In 1954, the book was translated into German, but was released by the Aufbau-Verlag in the GDR. His second book Engrenagem (1944 ) could appear only in the underground.

During the Fourth Congress of the PCP, which took place in Lousã 1946 in the underground, he was first and later officially elected delegate to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Portugal and it one of the most important functionaries of the party in Portugal. He came so that more and more into the focus of the central government in Lisbon. Also, what had become a militant communist member of other anti-fascist groups; the most famous was the MUD - Movimento do Unidades Democratia. He was also the campaign team for their support of Norberto de Matos as a presidential candidate (who was alibi - moderate admitted to the elections). In 1949, he died in Lisbon in the home of his sister, the famous writer and teacher Alice Gomes, from the effects of tuberculosis. The summoned doctors from the National Institute lungs did not know who it was, as he himself was still provided in death with an alias name. He was buried in Espinho.

His oeuvre, even with the censored stories allowed, for the first time appear after the Carnation Revolution in Portugal and in 1979 published in full. In Lisbon there is a street that is named after the author and politician.

Work

  • Esteiros, novel, 1941, Sirius -Verlag, Lisbon ( German, 1954, Aufbau-Verlag, GDR )
  • Engrenagem, novel, 1944, Sirius -Verlag, Lisbon.
  • Obra Completa de Soeiro Pereira Gomes, 1979, Lisbon.
  • Various narratives scattered in newspapers and magazines.

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  • Born in 1909
  • Died in 1949
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