«Os Surrealistas», no centenário de Mário Cesariny e de Mário-Henrique Leiria

Abstract

This article seeks to examine the roots of the organized surrealism in Portugal, in the second half of the 1940s, starting with the dialogue between two young poets, Mário Cesariny and Alexandre O’Neill, who were instrumental in the formation of the Surrealist Group of Lisbon (1947-1950). An attempt is made to understand the tensions that erupted within this group, leading to the resignation and departure of Mário Cesariny and António Domingues in the summer of 1948 and the subsequent formation of the group «The Surrealists» (1949-1952). This group emerged from encounters with a new set of personalities, including notable figures such as Cruzeiro Seixas, António Maria Lisboa, and Mário-Henrique Leiria, providing a renewed consistency to surrealist intervention in Portugal.