Cecília Meireles e a Revista de Portugal: diálogos luso-brasileiros em perspectiva

Abstract

Cecilia Meireles, one of the Brazilian literature main names, has kept through her life an intense dialogue with Portugal. This was a product initially of her family relationships and, after this, her approximation to the country has grown gradually and its intensifies because of her participation in many Lusitanian magazines, between the 1930s and 1950s. Among these publications, we can highlight the Revista de Portugal appeared in Coimbra, in 1937, under the management of the writer Vitorino Nemesio. Publications such as this allows to find out the existence of a true connection web between Cecilia and the Portuguese that acted in the magazines and encouraged the appearance of the Brazilian author’s texts. Beyond that, critic texts from Portuguese writers published in that sort of magazines had contribute even more to certify Cecilia Meireles’ prestige and poetic quality to Eu­ropean readers.