Bidspirit auction | LISBOA (António Maria). OSSÓPTICO. Coimbra.

LISBOA (António Maria). OSSÓPTICO. Coimbra. 1952. - LISBOA (António Maria) OSSÓPTICO . Coimbra: Ed. Autor, 1952. [18] pp.; 220 mm. First and only edition published during the author's lifetime, the year before his death - António Maria Lisboa died of tuberculosis in 1953, at the age of 25, leaving behind a small body of work, but one of central importance to Portuguese surrealism. Ossóptico is one of the few works that the author managed to publish, in a very limited self-published edition. The unusual imagery and the exploration of a language that transcends the limits of reality place the book within the line of what Lisboa preferred to call ”metascientism”—rejecting the label of surrealism because he understood that ”the Surreal belongs to the Poet of all times.” Mário Cesariny, who organized the posthumous edition of his complete works in 1977, considered him the greatest Portuguese surrealist poet. Extremely rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate