Eduardo Lourenço and Neorrealism: Brief Reflection on a Discontent

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The text resumes some brief and important reflections on the volume Obras completas II: Sentido e forma da poesia neo-realista, by Eduardo Lourenço. Eduardo Lourenço’s statement entitled “How I lived the (small) history of neo-realism” is an autobiographical synthesis of his experience in Coimbra. He wrote: “when I arrived in Coimbra in 1940 (at the age of 17), neo-realism already had a whole past that I was completely unaware of». This past went back at least to 1937, the year in which we found the first manifestations of what would be called, years later, “neo-realism”.

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2024-09-05