Mário de Sá-Carneiro

Mário de Sá-Carneiro was born in Lisbon on 19 May 1890, into a well-off family of military men; orphaned of his mother as a small child, he was raised by his grandparents. Enrolled in law at Coimbra in 1911, he left the following year to continue these studies in Paris and never completed them. A friend and correspondent of Fernando Pessoa, he published with him in 1915 the review Orpheu, which opened Portuguese modernism. Back in Paris, plagued by money troubles and depression, he took his own life in a hotel room on 26 April 1916, before he was twenty-six.

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• NovelLúcio's ConfessionA Confissão de LúcioMário de Sá-Carneiro · 1914Literature