Bidspirit auction | NOVO CANCIONEIRO. Coimbra. 1941-1944.

NOVO CANCIONEIRO. Coimbra. 1941-1944. - NOVO CANCIONEIRO . Coimbra: [s.n.], 1941-1944. 10v.; 235 mm. A collection of poetry published in Coimbra between 1941 and 1944, bringing together ten debut or affirmation books by ten young poets, in one of the most significant collective manifestations of 20th-century Portuguese literature. The ten volumes that constitute it are: 1. NAMORA (Fernando), Terra, 1941; 2. DIONÍSIO (Mário), Poemas, 1941; 3. COCHOFEL (João José), Sol de Agosto, 1942; 4. NAMORADO (Joaquim), Aviso à Navegação, 1941; 5. FEIJÓ (Álvaro), Os Poemas de Álvaro Feijó, 1941; 6. FONSECA (Manuel da), Planície, 1942; 7. OLIVEIRA (Carlos de), Turismo, 1942; 8. MURALHA (Sidónio), Passagem de Nível, 1943; 9. TENREIRO (Francisco José), Ilha de Nome Santo, 1942; 10. SANTOS (Políbio Gomes dos), Voz que Escuta, 1944. The New Songbook was not preceded by a manifesto, program, or declaration of principles. This absence of doctrinal formalization gave the collection a certain freedom of style. The common denominator was different: a poetics open to the social and the class struggle, in direct opposition to the intimism of the Presença generation and the Salazar regime. The poets of the New Songbook responded to poetry centered on the individual with a poetry of intervention and fraternity, influenced by Cesário Verde and Álvaro de Campos, but focused on the world of work, the Alentejo plains, the city streets, and the rural workers. The collection's impact was immediate and lasting, amplified by reading sessions held in community centers throughout the country. Many of its authors would go on to distinguish themselves in other genres: Fernando Namora and Manuel da Fonseca in fiction, Carlos de Oliveira in novels, and Mário Dionísio in essays and art criticism. Francisco José Tenreiro, born in São Tomé, is considered a pioneer of Afro-Brazilian poetry in Portuguese. The complete collection in its original editions is now very rare on the market. The first volume, Terra de Fernando Namora, had its copies seized and burned in the courtyard of the Civil Government of Coimbra shortly after printing, making it the scarcest of the ten. VERY RARE. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate