František Listopad escreve sobre Portugal nas páginas da revista Sklizeň

Abstract

FRANTIŠEK LISTOPAD WRITES ABOUT PORTUGAL IN THE PAGES OF SKLIZEŇ MAGAZINE

The article presents the work in exile in Sklizeň magazine, thematically dedicated to Portugal, by the Czech poet, writer and essayist František Listopad. After the communist coup in 1948, Listopad emigrated to France and ten years later to Portugal. First to Porto, later to Lisbon, he followed his Portuguese wife and adopted the pseudonym Jorge Listopad. In his new homeland, he became a successful artist, worked on radio and television, and directed theatre plays. He returned to Czechoslovakia at 1989, after the democratic revolution. Throughout his artistic life, he tried to be a personality-bridge between many cultures. During the period of exile, he contributed to various magazines published outside the territory of Czechoslovakia, which tried to preserve the Czech and Slovak language,as culture as well. For this article, I have selected texts related to Portugal, which in them is the object of a travelogue or literary-historical analysis, as well as a topic for my own poems, especially from the exile magazine Sklizeň. This magazine was published between the years (1953-1979) in Hamburg, Germany. At the end of the article, two essential texts from other exile magazines Archa (Hamburg) and Proměny (New York) will appear, regarding, in the Czech environment, pioneering texts about Cesário Verde and Fernando Pessoa.