Über dieses Buch:
Obwohl das Werk von Jorge de Câmara (†1649) zu Lebzeiten des Dichters nicht veröffentlicht wurde, ist es zweifelsohne klar, dass er eine bedeutende Figur in der portugiesischen Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts war: Wegen seiner freudevollen und satyrischen Gedichte wurde ihm sogar das suggestive Epitheton des ‚portugiesischen Martialis’ verliehen. Durch die Publikation dieser 90 bisher unveröffentlichten Texte werden neue Impulse für die Interpretation dieses Autors – sowie der Dichtung des portugiesischen Barocks – gegeben.
Über den Autor / die Autorin:
Elsa Pereira (b. Oporto, 1980) is graduated in Modern Languages and Literature, from Oporto University’s Faculty of Letters, where she obtained, in January 2007, a Master’s degree in Romanic Literature, with the dissertation that is now being published. The author has been focusing her work in the overall area of Portuguese and Brazilian Literature.
About this book:
Although Jorge da Câmara (†1649) was never able to immortalize his work through publication, there is no doubt that he was an important figure in our 17th century literature, as his cheerful and satirical poems earned him the suggestive epithet ‘the Portuguese Martialis’. By publishing an author who so far has been hostage to the inaccessibility of the manuscripts, this book adds 90 unedited compositions to the (still limited) group of texts usually cited for this period, thereby helping to reveal the unexpected wealth hidden behind a few doubtful anthologies, on which our judgements of Portuguese baroque poetry remain largely based.