REVISTA PRESENÇA NO CENÁRIO PORTUGUÊS

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is to present Presença literary magazine by the analysis of 25 essay-manifests contained in the Tome I of this periodical, researching its goals while a Portuguese literary magazine emerged in 1927, which was willing to revolutionize the Coimbra literary scenario at time, since the material that had been produced until the proposal which was engaged, in other words, the conquest of a literature, in fact, alive. There is no pretension to promote wide and/or finite theorizations about Presença, since in the very words of David Mourão-Ferreira (1977) "any stereotype, still being minimum, by the truth or at least by verisimilitude, neither the sum of all of them would be once successful to define or characterize, in its totality, what, in fact, was the Presença". Nevertheless, and with the biggest challenge we aimed, by Tome I and the selected essays, to promote the access to this literary production so important to the portuguese modernism, also scrutinizing the motive energy which have made that the Presença collaborators have conducted it, with some dissidences, no doubt, for more than thirteen years of an intense, provocative, and above all, reflexive about what was made and/or understood as Literature, in the middle of 30s in Portugal. To make this study possible, some texts were necessary, among them we can highlight: Adolfo Casais Monteiro (1959, 1995), Clara Rocha (1985) and integrated issues in the fiftieth anniversary of Presença magazine: David Mourão-Ferreira (1977) and Jorge de Sena (1977)