Mário de Sá-Carneiro

Mário de Sá Carneiro - ( born May 19, 1890 in Lisbon, † April 26, 1916 in Paris) was a Portuguese poet and writer. Significantly, he was together with Fernando Pessoa as co-founder of the Literary Modern Portugal.

Life

Mário de Sá Carneiro - was born in 1890 in Lisbon gutbürgerlich - wealthy family, his father was an engineer. When he was two years old, his mother died. He grew up as an only child.

In 1910 he published along with his school friend Tomas Cabreira Junior the play Amizade ( " Friendship "). Tomas Cabreira Junior died in 1911 by suicide.

Several times he visited Paris to study law, first in 1912, then temporarily in 1914 and 1915 until 1916.

In 1913 he met Fernando Pessoa, with whom was a close friend.

His most famous work is the 1914 published novel, A Confissão de Lúcio ( " Lucio's Confession " ), an intricate web of relationships between a woman and two decadent poets in Paris in the fin de siècle. The book illuminates the entire living world Sá - Carneiros and the search for identity that accompanied him throughout his life. The book is to be published so far only in German language works.

He also wrote articles in the literary magazine Orpheu (1915 ), which was mainly financed by his father.

In his time in Paris since 1915 were a restless bohemian life and an unhappy love relationship and financial problems. On April 26, 1916 Sá Carneiro - ended his life in a Paris hotel.

His complete works appeared posthumously in 1946.

Mário de Sá Carneiro, had great influence on subsequent generations of Portuguese poet, but was always in the shadow of Fernando Pessoa. In Germany Sá Carneiro - is virtually unknown.

The work of Sá Carneiro - is characterized by the theme of death and a certain longing for death.

Works (selection)

• Amizade ( Friendship ), 1910, play
• Principio ( beginning ), 1912, stories
• O homem de Sonhos (The Man of Dreams ) and O Fixador de Instantes ( The fixer of moments ), 1913, short stories, published in A Águia
• A Alma ( The Soul ), 1913, play
• Dispersão ( resolution ), 1914, lyrics
• A Confissão de Lúcio, 1914, novel German u.d.T. Lucio's confession, dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-12471-7;
• U.d.T. Lucio's Confession, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt aM 1997, ISBN 3-518-22267-8

Swell

• "Main works of Spanish and Portuguese literature ", pp. 783, ff.Kindlers new literary lexicon,
• " Knauer's Encyclopedia of World Literature",
• "Notes to the novel" Lucio's Confession ", is information about Sa - Carneiro.