Revista de Portugal

Portuguese periodical

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The Revista de Portugal was a Portuguese literary journal directed by Vitorino Nemésio from 1939 to 1945. This periodical played a role in broadening the scope of Portuguese neorealism by featuring poetry that reflected new trends and movements, such as French Surrealism and English Imagism.1

The journal's influence contributed to the literary landscape of Portugal, which has a rich tradition characterized by lyric poetry, historical writing, and significant figures like Luís de Camões, Eça de Queirós, and Fernando Pessoa. The post-1974 era in Portugal saw a new freedom of expression in literature, with writers exploring themes of the colonial past and national history. This period also witnessed a surge in women writers and culminated in José Saramago receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998.23

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…Nemésio directed the literary journal Revista de Portugal (“Portuguese Review”), which broadened the horizons of Portuguese neorealism by publishing poetry that exemplified new trends and movements, including French Surrealism and English Imagism. (Surrealism did not manifest itself in Portuguese literature until the late 1940s and ’50s, in the works of…
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…Nemésio directed the literary journal Revista de Portugal (“Portuguese Review”), which broadened the horizons of Portuguese neorealism by publishing poetry that exemplified new trends and movements, including French Surrealism and English Imagism. (Surrealism did not manifest itself in Portuguese literature until the late 1940s and ’50s, in the works of…
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