Camões al tramonto dell’impero: As Quibíricas di António Quadros

Autores/as

  • Eugenio Lucotti Universidade de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/1594-378X/12811

Resumen

The primary objective of this article is to reflect on the relations between the instrumentalization of Camões and the Lusíadas during the Estado Novo and the imminent fall of the empire in the poetic production by Frey Ioannes Garabatus. Garabatus was a heteronym of António Quadros (1933-1994), a Portuguese painter and poet who resided in Mozambique between the 1960s and 1980s. His oeuvre engages in a dialogue with Camões that is manifested in the “ethic” poem As Qvybyrycas (1972). This work was published on the fourth centenary of the Lusíadas, with a preface by Jorge de Sena. It parodies Camões’ epic poem Os Lusíadas, relegating it to a mere "prologue" to the narration of the events that led to the 1578 defeat of Ksar-el-Kebir. The discursive strategies employed in the poem to pay homage to Camões will be of particular interest, as will the way they enable a reversal of the rhetoric directed towards the poet.

Keywords: António Quadros; Camões; Lusíadas; decolonization; parody.

Publicado

2026-02-26

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Sección

Monografico 25.2. Camões al centro. Testi, contesti, traduzioni. Nel quinto centenario della nascita di Luís de Camões (1524?-1579?). Coord. Valeria Tocco e Sofia Morabito