![I asked Professor Maria Manuel Lisboa to write this biographical note of Álvaro do Carvalhal after seeing that she just published an article titled “The end of civilization in Álvaro do Carvalhal: eating children is wrong” (in the Journal of Romance Studies). Her most recent book is The End of the World: Apocalypse and its Aftermath in Western Culture.
Álvaro do Carvalhal was born in Algeriz, in northern Portugal in 1844 and died in 1868, aged twenty four. He studied Law in Coimbra, where he met many of the up-and-coming writers, philosophers and polemicists of the group later known as the Geração de 70 (the Generation of [18]70), which numbered in its ranks the novelist Eca de Queirós, now recognized as Portugal’s foremost writer of the nineteenth century. The Generation of 70 instigated the polemic known as ‘A Questão Coimbrã’ (‘The Coimbra debate’) and subsequently ‘officially’ pronounced Romanticism dead, announcing the advent of Realism as the new intellectual paradigm. Although Carvalhal’s death preceded by three years the Conferências do Casino (Casino Conferences) of 1871, which officially outlined the paradigms of the new movement, his own stance remained elusive. Although at first glance his style and themes obey the tenets of high Romanticism and Gothic fantasy, it is also possible to argue for a discernible element of satire that pre-empts the mockery to which the Romantics were subjected by their successors, the proponents of Realism.
By the time of Carvalhal’s premature death he had published one play, O Castigo davingança (Revenge’s Punishment), written while still in secondary school, some poems published in various journals and periodicals, and six short stories published posthumously: ‘J. Moreno,’ ‘O Punhal de Rosaura’ (Rosaura’s Dagger’), ‘A Febre do Jogo’ (The Frenzy of Gambling’), ‘A Vestal’ (The Vestal Virgin’), ‘Honra Antiga’ (‘Ancient Honour’) and ‘Os Canibais’ (‘The cannibals’).
‘The Cannibals’ was adapted to the cinema by Manoel de Oliveira in 1988.
In English: I think just the 45 page story “The Cannibals,” in The Dedalus Book of Portuguese Fantasy.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwxeivAoUW1qf0717o1_400.jpg)
I asked Professor Maria Manuel Lisboa to write this biographical note of Álvaro do Carvalhal after seeing that she just published an article titled “The end of civilization in Álvaro do Carvalhal: eating children is wrong” (in the Journal of Romance Studies). Her most recent book is The End of the World: Apocalypse and its Aftermath in Western Culture.
Álvaro do Carvalhal was born in Algeriz, in northern Portugal in 1844 and died in 1868, aged twenty four. He studied Law in Coimbra, where he met many of the up-and-coming writers, philosophers and polemicists of the group later known as the Geração de 70 (the Generation of [18]70), which numbered in its ranks the novelist Eca de Queirós, now recognized as Portugal’s foremost writer of the nineteenth century. The Generation of 70 instigated the polemic known as ‘A Questão Coimbrã’ (‘The Coimbra debate’) and subsequently ‘officially’ pronounced Romanticism dead, announcing the advent of Realism as the new intellectual paradigm. Although Carvalhal’s death preceded by three years the Conferências do Casino (Casino Conferences) of 1871, which officially outlined the paradigms of the new movement, his own stance remained elusive. Although at first glance his style and themes obey the tenets of high Romanticism and Gothic fantasy, it is also possible to argue for a discernible element of satire that pre-empts the mockery to which the Romantics were subjected by their successors, the proponents of Realism.
By the time of Carvalhal’s premature death he had published one play, O Castigo davingança (Revenge’s Punishment), written while still in secondary school, some poems published in various journals and periodicals, and six short stories published posthumously: ‘J. Moreno,’ ‘O Punhal de Rosaura’ (Rosaura’s Dagger’), ‘A Febre do Jogo’ (The Frenzy of Gambling’), ‘A Vestal’ (The Vestal Virgin’), ‘Honra Antiga’ (‘Ancient Honour’) and ‘Os Canibais’ (‘The cannibals’).
‘The Cannibals’ was adapted to the cinema by Manoel de Oliveira in 1988.
In English: I think just the 45 page story “The Cannibals,” in The Dedalus Book of Portuguese Fantasy.
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