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Mário de Sá-Carneiro
1890–1916
A brilliant, restless voice of early Portuguese modernism, his poems and fiction turn identity, desire, and self-invention into something intense and unforgettable. Though he died at just twenty-five, his work still feels daring, strange, and startlingly modern.
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 with the magazine Orpheu. He studied in Paris for a time, and that city shaped both his literary imagination and the cosmopolitan feeling of his work.
He wrote poetry, stories, and fiction marked by psychological intensity, fractured identity, and a constant push beyond ordinary reality. Readers often remember him for the way he blends beauty, unease, and theatrical self-awareness, making inner life feel vivid and unstable at the same time.
His life was very short: he died in Paris in 1916. Even so, he remains one of the most distinctive writers in modern Portuguese literature, admired for work that helped open new paths for twentieth-century writing in Portugal.