Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos or Mário Cesariny (August 9, 1923 – November 26, 2006) was a Portuguese surrealist poet and painter. He published several major works of poetry during a career spanning 50 years. Cesariny was also a painter, but his work became more centered on poetry in the 1950s.
Mário Cesariny was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the youngest child and only son of Viriato de Vasconcelos and María de las Mercedes Cesariny, a Spaniard of French but originally Italian ancestry.
Educationedit
Mário Cesariny studied in the prestigious Escola de Artes Decorativas António Arroio and also studied music with the composer Fernando Lopes Graça. Later he joined the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, where he met André Breton in 1947. He soon became influenced by the French surrealist movement and was one of the biggest supporters of the movement in Portugal, where he founded the Lisbon Surrealist Movement with other Portuguese artists including Alexandre O'Neill and José-Augusto França and where he met João Artur da Silva.
After being acquainted with the surrealist movement, Cesariny moved away from the neorealist movement, important at the time in the country for being composed mainly by members of the resistance against the fascist leaning regime of Oliveira Salazar. He adopted an attitude of constant experimenting in his work. This principle is the main characteristic of his work and has been present throughout his career.
Mário Cesariny, painting by Bottelho
From 1960 until April 25, 1974, Cesariny was mercilessly harassed by the Portuguese Polícia Judiciária for being a suspect of vagrancy, a euphemistic term used by the police in those days for homosexuality, which the poet lived courageously in spite of persecution. This fact shows up several times in his writings in a veiled way ("Lisboa-os-Sustos") and was one of the causes of his intermittent stayings in Great Britain and France during the 1960s and 1970s. Later he talked publicly about this.[1]
Worksedit
1950 — Corpo Visível
1952 — Discurso sobre a Reabilitação do Real Quotidiano
1953 — Louvor e Simplificação de Álvaro de Campos
1956 — Manual de Prestidigitação
1957 — Pena Capital
1958 — Alguns Mitos Maiores e Alguns Mitos Menores Postos à Circulação pelo Autor
1959 — Nobilíssima Visão
1961 — Poesia
1961 — Planisfério e Outros Poemas
1964 — Um Auto para Jerusalém
1965 — Titânia e A Cidade Queimada
1972 — Burlescas, Teóricas e Sentimentais
1980 — Primavera Autónoma das Estradas
1994 — xacara das 10 meninas
Notesedit
^Cesariny interview, January 2002 2003-04-18 at the Wayback Machine and Cesariny last interview in 2006 (audio)
External linksedit
Some poems
Page on MCV
Last interview (audio)
Genealogy
April 10, 2024
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