''Centauro'' (Portuguese for "centaur") was a Portuguese monthly literary review published in the capital

Lisbon Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainlan ...

from October to December 1916. The review was headed by

Luís de Montalvor Luís de Montalvor (January 31, 1891 – March 2, 1947) was a pseudonym of Portuguese poet and editor Luís Filipe de Saldanha da Gama da Silva Ramos. He founded the reviews '' Orpheu'' (modern Portuguese spelling: ''Orfeu'') 'Orpheus''1914 and ...

who also published its first volume. The first volume was published in October 1916, the second in November and the last one in December.

Decadentism

In some form, the ''Centauro'' review was republished as part of the review ''Orpheu'' (''Orpheus''), whose titled as a trimonthly literary review which had the recovering a then current decadentist, that Luís de Montalvor who headed the first issue of the review, it was printed. But the then current literary was diverted to the futurism, intersectionism and sensationism of

Fernando Pessoa Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa (; ; 13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher. He has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th c ...

and

Mário de Sá-Carneiro Mário de Sá-Carneiro (; May 19, 1890 – April 26, 1916) was a Portuguese poet and writer. He is one of the best known authors of the " Geração D'Orpheu", and is usually considered their greatest poet, after Fernando Pessoa. Life Má ...

, especially on the second issue, in which it substituted the founded to head the ''Orpheus'' review. For its first issue of the ''Orpheu'' (also as ''Orféu''), de Montalvor wrote an "introduction", finding to make an aesthetic orientation of the review. However, the text was confusing, translated its differences of its young writers. The only number of the ''Centauro'' review opens with a "Tentative of an essay on Decadence", and that de Montalvor was more explicit, although it remains anchored in aesthetic values of the 19th century, especially that inspired by the Belgian writer

Maurice Maeterlinck Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in ...

Notable collaborators

This review published 16 poems by one of the Portuguese great at the time Camilo Pessanha,Camilo Pessanha and the review''Centauro'' - Tertúlia Bibliófila
republished in 1920 in the book ''Clepsidra'', considered the most pure expression of symbolism in Portugal. It had contributed to the review by Alberto Osório de Castro with "Quatro Secos", Raul Leau with "A Aventura de um Satyro (Satiro) ou a Morte de Adonis" ("The Adventure of a Satyr on the Death of Adonis"., Júlio de VIlhena with "Ultima Nau", Silva Tavares with "Poems de Alma Doente" and the Portuguese great at the time

with 14 sonnets of "Passo de Cruz".

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infopédia - Dicionários Porto Editora

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Decadentism

Notable collaborators

See also

References

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