Paying homage to Portugal made from the North “is to pay homage to Agustina” – PR – Atualidade
“To honor iconoclastic Portugal, to honor an ecumenical, universal Portugal, but connected to its roots, to honor the Portugal made, even today, as it was born, from the North, is to honor Agustina”, said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa today at the opening session. of the centenary celebrations of Agustina Bessa-Luís in Porto.
According to the boss, “Agustina Bessa-Luí, the exhibition of the exhibition”, said in the Republic’s announcement of the session, who will also thank Escrita: Agustina Bessa-Luí, the Serralves collection. “.
Today, in Amarante, commemorations of the centenary of the writer, born in Vila Meã, that municipality in the district of Porto, but who lived in the district capital, have already begun.
In his background Serralves Marcelo, so he considered what his role was in the speech, “in Amarante as in Porto, to honor iconoclastic Portugal, which exists, in every Portuguese, even visible only in large, collective throws”.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa began his speech by citing the beginning of Fanny Owen’s 1979 work, which reads that “the Douro river had no singers”, unlike the Mondego or the Tagus.
“Note how someone who sang the Douro – although, of course, the appropriate word is perhaps another – complains that the Douro had no singers”, pointed out the President of the Republic.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa thus highlighted the way in which Agustina “writes definitive sentences about local particularities”, or how “he exaggerates without exaggerating, being inconvenient in a way, even so, agreeable”.
“How he does little and how he praises. How he notices the disproportion between the places and their singers, museums of weak muses, which he calls mimosas and not ardent. the head of state.
For Marcelo “born in Meã, Amarante for decades without end, there is no doubt that, in the sense of Vila Agustina, with these places and with the spirit of the places”.
The President of the Republic also recalled what was mentioned in Fanny Owen, comparing it with the episode of the heart of D. Pedro IV and his journey to the heart of the 200th anniversary of Brazil’s independence, and “the contradictory emotions it still arouses”.
“What novel would Agustina have written about the heart of D. Pedro, who left him for Porto, and its vicissitudes in the year 2022? What regional, patriotic, ideological or dissonant disturbance causes a heart, which would not cause a sword or a crown , or an inkwell?”, questioned Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
The President of the Republic said that today, which marks the centenary of the birth of Agustina Bessa-Luís, is a day “never ended, because Agustina never ends”.
The centenary of the birth of Agustina Bessa-Luís, in several cities across the country, with a set of inspiring artistic and cultural heritage today celebrates and promotes the artistic heritage of the writer, as well as territorial ties.
The main axes of the programme, which started today in Amarante and will continue until October 2023, focus, in particular, on the itinerary dedicated to the places of Agustina, who was born in Amarante, lived in Porto and has a strong connection to the Douro and to Minho.
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