Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Birth date: May 19, 1890
Died: April 26, 1916
Mário de Sá-Carneiro's Books
It's still raining and the local Mela Festival organised by the Multicultural Centre has been cancelled as the venue currently resembles a pond more than a park. So, I just made another mug of tea and am going back to Lucio's Confessions, which has had me glued to its pages all morning. I simp...
"Deep down, I did hate those people – the artists. That is, those false artists whose work consists of the poses they strike: saying outrageous things, cultivating complicated tastes and appetites, being artificial, irritating, [and] unbearable. People who, in fact, take from art only what is false ...
Aestheticism and decadence meet existential crises of gender, sexuality, identity, and the tenuous boundary between reality and fantasy, illusion and madness. Sá-Carneiro killed himself at age 26, and I believe this is the only one of his novels to have been translated into English. Apparently, ther...
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