Sumários

Vergílio Ferreira

12 Novembro 2015, 10:00 Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Reading and discussion of the following short story:
Vergílio Ferreira, “The Hen”, in: Passport to Portugal, Serpent´s Tail, London, 1994. 


Miguel Torga

10 Novembro 2015, 10:00 Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Introduction to Miguel Torga's life, work and poetics.

Difference between pseudonym and heteronym.


Discussion about the following Walter Benjamin's quote, The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nicolai Leskov:

“It teaches us that the art of storytelling is coming to an end. Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is embarrassment all around when the wish to hear a story is expressed. It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest among our possessions, were taken from us: the ability to exchange experiences.” 

Watching of a scene from Walt Disney's Fantasia, 1940: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqyVZK5yN1E .


Fernando Pessoa (cont.)

5 Novembro 2015, 10:00 Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Reading and discussion of the following poems: Fernando Pessoa. By Álvaro de Campos: “Lisbon Revisited (1926); “Salutation to Walt Whitman”; “Triumphal Ode”. By Ricardo Reis: “Not just those who envy and hate us”; “Fruits are given by tress that live”; “Wise the man who´s content with the world´s spectacle”. By Alberto Caeiro, from The Keeper of Sheep: “II”: “XLIII”; from Uncollected Poems: “You say I’m something more”, in: A Little Larger than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems. Trans. Richard Zenith. UK, Penguin, 2006. 


Fernando Pessoa (cont.)

3 Novembro 2015, 10:00 Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Reading and discussion about the following poems: Fernando Pessoa. From Message: “Coat of Arms: The Castles”; “The Sea Monster”, in: A Little Larger than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems. Trans. Richard Zenith. UK, Penguin, 2006.; From The Book of Disquiet, “Fragments 70, 298, 406, 407” Trans. Richard Zenith, UK, Penguin, 2003.


Fernando Pessoa

29 Outubro 2015, 10:00 Helena Carvalhão Buescu

Introduction to Fernando Pessoa's life, work, and poetics.


Reading and discussion of the following poems: Fernando Pessoa. From Songbook: “Pedrouços”; “Autopsychography”; “O cat playing in the street”, in: A Little Larger than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems. Trans. Richard Zenith. UK, Penguin, 2006.