Eduardo Lourenço

Eduardo Lourenço de Faria ( born March 23, 1923 in São Pedro de Rio Seco, District of Guarda, Portugal) is a Portuguese literary critic, essayist and philosopher. He is the most important contemporary thinkers Portugal.

Life

Lourenço studied philosophy and history at the University of Coimbra. There he also taught from 1946 to 1952 as a professor. From 1953 to 1954 he taught Portuguese literature at the University of Hamburg and from 1954 to 1955 at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. Then he was in the years 1955 to 1958 as a professor at the University of Montpellier.

After a brief teaching career from 1958 to 1959 at the University of Salvador da Bahia (Brazil ) in 1960, he went to France to teach there until 1965 at the University of Grenoble. He then accepted a position at the University of Nice Sophia -Antipolis, where he remained until his retirement. Him the post was then transferred as a cultural attaché in Rome. Since 1988 he has also been editor of the Portuguese magazine " Finisterra ".

Today Lourenço de Faria lives in Vence on the Côte d' Azur.

Lourenço is one of the most prominent experts on the works of the Portuguese poet and writer Fernando Pessoa ( 1888-1935 ). His work raises the question of the culture and identity of Portugal and its history.

Awards

Works (selection)

• Portugal - Europe: myth and melancholy, TFM -Verlag, 1997
• Myth of Saudade, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001