Cláudia Pazos Alonso, professor of Portuguese Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Oxford, in England, will donate to the National Library of Portugal (BNP) a handwritten notebook by Judith Teixeira that she acquired in 1997 in a second-hand bookstore in Lisbon. The donation occurs at a time when the 100th anniversary of the publication of the first collection of poems by the modernist writer, Decayand the “Literature of Sodoma” scandal, in which Fernando Pessoa and Raúl Leal were the main actors.
The donation will be made official this Wednesday afternoon, in a ceremony at the BNP Auditorium, during which a discussion will take place between the professor and researcher and Fabio Mario da Silva, professor of Portuguese Literature at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco ( UFRPE) , in northeastern Brazil, and a researcher at the Center for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures (CLEPUL) and the Center for Classical Studies (CEC) of the University of Lisbon. The two professors were responsible for the publication of a volume of poetry and prose by Judith Teixeira in 2015, which included the poems from the manuscript. The book is out of print, but a source from the publisher confirmed to the Observer that there will be a new edition this year, however, without advancing dates. Pazos Alonso and Silva also jointly published the complete works of Florbela Espanca.
Fictionist and poet, Judith Teixeira was born in Viseu in 1888 and died in Lisbon in 1959. She was one of the few modernist Portuguese writers with a public presence and one of the few women who created and directed a periodical in Portugal in the first half of the century. XX, the magazine Europewhich had three issues between April and June 1925. Teixeira collaborated with other literary publications, specifically with the magazine contemporary, directed by the graphic artist José Pacheco, and with newspapers, such as Diário de Lisboa, where he published several texts and poems, some of which he signed with the pseudonym Lena de Valois. Between 1923, when she made herself known with Decayand 1927, when he launched Satanichis only book of fiction, Teixeira published two other books of poetry, a new edition of his first work, and gave a lecture, From my, in which he defended his artistic identity. It is known that he intended to publicize at least four more works, whose respective manuscripts were never located: flares (drama in three acts), cup of embers (poetry), grooves Is TV soaps (short fiction).
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Source: Observadora
