"Written at the crossroads of late Symbolism and the avant-garde movements of Futurism and Cubism, Sá-Carneiro's literature is breath-taking in its originality."---From Publisher's Website.
Mário de Sá Carneiro Book order
Mário de Sá-Carneiro was a Portuguese modernist whose work is marked by a fascination with sensory confusion and delirium bordering on hallucination. His writing, influenced by avant-garde movements and a search for self, reveals a profound inability to confront reality and a sense of isolation. Sá-Carneiro sought to express his inner dispersion and frustrations through disrupted logic and wordplay, creating tragic portraits of an inadequate individual. Despite adhering to traditional metrical forms, his poetry carries an authentic, sad, and tragic humanity.
- 2020
- 1996
When in 1916, Mario de Sa-Carneiro committed suicide in Paris at the age of twenty-six, he left behind him and extraordinary body of work, which dealt obsessively with the problems of identity, madness and solitude.The Great Shadow (and other stories) looks more deeply into the obsessive, tortured soul of the author and confirms his unique dark talent.
