Surrealismo Português e Surrealismo Internacional a partir da correspondência de Mário Cesariny com Sérgio Lima, Laurens Vancrevel e Frida Vancrevel

Abstract

From the end of the 1960s onwards, Mário Cesariny established a prolific dialogue with the international surrealist movement, with repercussions on the way in which the Portuguese Surrealism came to be considered. In this paper, I propose a perspective on Cesariny's critical intervention in a moment of transition in the panorama of the international surrealist movement, represented, on the one hand, by a certain decentralization in relation to the Parisian paradigm and, on the other hand, by the pluralization of surrealist groups. Cesariny's correspondence with the Brazilian Sergio Lima and with the Dutch Laurens and Frida Vancrevel are taken as a starting point, articulated with his critical and anthological activity. These epistolography contains the fundamental aspects of Cesariny's criticism of the limitations of the narrative disseminated internationally regarding the Portuguese case and its integration in the context of a critical review of Surrealism.