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Mário de Sá-Carneiro
1890–1916
A brilliant, restless voice of Portuguese modernism, he wrote poetry and fiction charged with dreamlike intensity, identity, and inner conflict. His career lasted only a few years, but his work left a lasting mark on 20th-century literature.
4 Audiobooks
Orpheu Nº1 Revista Trimestral de Literatura
by José de Almada Negreiros, Alvaro de Campos, Ronald de Carvalho, Armando César Cortes-Rodrigues, Alfredo Pedro de Meneses Guisado, Luís de Montalvor, Fernando Pessoa, Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Orpheu Nº2 Revista Trimestral de Literatura
by Alvaro de Campos, Violante Cisneiros, Eduardo Guimarães, Raul de Oliveira Sousa Leal, Ângelo Vaz Pinto Azevedo Coutinho de Lima, Luís de Montalvor, Fernando Pessoa, Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Dispersão 12 poesias por Mario de Sá-Carneiro
by Mário de Sá-Carneiro
A confissão de Lucio,: Narrativa.
by Mário de Sá-Carneiro
About the author
Born in Lisbon in 1890, Mário de Sá-Carneiro became one of the key figures of the Portuguese modernist generation linked to Orpheu. Reliable reference sources describe him as a poet and writer of unusual originality, and place him among the best-known authors of that movement, often just after Fernando Pessoa in reputation.
He studied in Paris, and that city became central to both his life and his writing. His work ranges across poetry, fiction, and drama, with themes that often circle obsession, solitude, instability, and the uneasy search for self. Readers still return to him for the emotional intensity and experimental edge of books such as Lucio's Confession.
His life was very short: he died in Paris in 1916 at just 25 years old. That early death has long shaped the way people read his work, but the writing itself is what continues to stand out—vivid, unsettled, and strikingly modern.