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Orfeu Rebelde
« J’élève ainsi la voix, par défi », proclame Miguel Torga (1907-1995), poète-né, poète-né rebelle.
Dans des poèmes aux titres lapidaires – « Exhortation », « Dénonciation », « Examen », « Biographie », « Témoignage », « Prospection »... Orphée rebelle restitue son art poétique, sa mythologie personnelle et « l’humanisme prométhéen et lyrique ».
Certains commentateurs ont vu en lui « un peu la conscience du Portugal ». Son œuvre à portée universelle (« le local moins les murs »), incarne la rectitude, la franchise, la solitude de l’homme, poings serrés, entièrement nu sur le globe terraqué.
Orphée rebelle constitue certainement (avec les Poèmes ibériques) le plus fort de son œuvre poétique. Ce recueil fut publié la première fois en 1958 à Coimbra. La présente traduction est basée sur l’édition complète de ses poèmes parue à Lisbonne en 2000.
Dans des poèmes aux titres lapidaires – « Exhortation », « Dénonciation », « Examen », « Biographie », « Témoignage », « Prospection »... Orphée rebelle restitue son art poétique, sa mythologie personnelle et « l’humanisme prométhéen et lyrique ».
Certains commentateurs ont vu en lui « un peu la conscience du Portugal ». Son œuvre à portée universelle (« le local moins les murs »), incarne la rectitude, la franchise, la solitude de l’homme, poings serrés, entièrement nu sur le globe terraqué.
Orphée rebelle constitue certainement (avec les Poèmes ibériques) le plus fort de son œuvre poétique. Ce recueil fut publié la première fois en 1958 à Coimbra. La présente traduction est basée sur l’édition complète de ses poèmes parue à Lisbonne en 2000.
- GenresPoetry
87 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1958
About the author
Miguel Torga
114 books199 followersMiguel Torga, pseudonym of Adolfo Correia da Rocha was one of the greatest Portuguese writers of the 20th century. He wrote poetry, short stories, theater and a 16 volume diary.
He was born in a village in Trás-os-Montes, northern Portugal, to small-time farmer parents. After a short spell as student in a catholic seminary in Lamego, also in Trás-os-Montes, in 1920 his father sent him to Brazil where he worked on the coffee plantation of an uncle who, finding him to be a clever student, paid his high school there and afterwards his medicine graduation (1933) at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal (to where he returns in 1925).
After graduation he worked in his village and in other places in the country, publishing his books from his own pocket for a number of years. In 1941, he established himself as an otolaryngologist physician in Coimbra.
His agnostic beliefs seems to reflect in his work, that deals mainly with the nobility of the human condition in a beautiful but ruthless world where God is absent or is nothing but a passive and silent, indiferent creator.
After the value of his work was being recognized, he went on to receive several awards, as the Prémio Camões in 1989 and the Montaigne award in 1981. He was several times nominated for the Nobel Prize of Literature, being the last one in 1994, but he never won.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_T...
He was born in a village in Trás-os-Montes, northern Portugal, to small-time farmer parents. After a short spell as student in a catholic seminary in Lamego, also in Trás-os-Montes, in 1920 his father sent him to Brazil where he worked on the coffee plantation of an uncle who, finding him to be a clever student, paid his high school there and afterwards his medicine graduation (1933) at the University of Coimbra, in Portugal (to where he returns in 1925).
After graduation he worked in his village and in other places in the country, publishing his books from his own pocket for a number of years. In 1941, he established himself as an otolaryngologist physician in Coimbra.
His agnostic beliefs seems to reflect in his work, that deals mainly with the nobility of the human condition in a beautiful but ruthless world where God is absent or is nothing but a passive and silent, indiferent creator.
After the value of his work was being recognized, he went on to receive several awards, as the Prémio Camões in 1989 and the Montaigne award in 1981. He was several times nominated for the Nobel Prize of Literature, being the last one in 1994, but he never won.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_T...
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February 25, 2013
Um pequeno livro que me fascinou pela correspondência que faço com alguns dos seus poemas, feitos de imagens, conotações, metáforas e outros ornatos, inebriando o espírito durante os quarenta e cinco minutos que dura. Dura pouco, mas enquanto dura torna-se no foco único das atenções. Os poemas Orfeu Rebelde, Mudez, Claro-Escuro, entre outros, demarcam-se dos demais como singular expressão do pensamento e da vivência de Torga.
Da melhor poesia portuguesa.
Da melhor poesia portuguesa.
May 9, 2021
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É por dentro que eu gosto que aconteça
A minha vida
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Biografia
É por dentro que eu gosto que aconteça
A minha vida
(...)"
Biografia
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