Os Modernistas Portugueses (6 Volumes) - 1927-1940

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Porto, Portuguese, 1954-1961, Softcover

1st edition, Very Good

Os Modernistas Portugueses  -  Escritos públicos, proclamações e manifestos, coordenados por Petrus que imaginou a obra e a dirigiu deu à estampa.

(translation of title: PORTUGUESE MODERNISTS, Public writings, proclamations, and manifestos, coordinated by Petrus, who conceived the work, directed it, and published it._

Textos Universais C.E.P. Porto S/D. Complete collection, 6 volumes, 20 cm.

A beautifully crafted edition, printed on high-quality paper, illustrated with numerous vignettes and drawings by renowned modern Portuguese artists, profusely documented with photo reproductions of frontispieces, with curious and rare complete reproductions of surrealist manifestos.

Copies in very good condition, with some dirt on the covers of the brochures.

The six volumes have the following (translated) subtitles:

I - From Orpheu to Presença;

II - From Presença to the Surrealists;

III - From the Independents to the Surrealists;

IV - Current Affairs and Critical Perspectives;

V - Current Affairs and Critical Perspectives;

VI - Critical Perspectives, Diatribes & Anti-Modernist Rants.

With texts, some unpublished, by Fernando Pessoa, Almada Negreiros, Miguel Torga, Carlos Queiroz, José Régio, João Pedro Andrade, António Ferro, among others. Illustrated with numerous vignettes and drawings.

Compilation of the most important texts published by the main authors of the various Portuguese modernist literary movements. The project was supposed to have 8 volumes, but only six were published. Complete collection of this rare and extremely important anthology of Portuguese literature.