Orpheu

Properly speaking, ORPHEU is an exile of artistic temperaments seeking art as secrecy or torment...

Our intent is to materialize, as a group or idea, a determined number of revelations in thought or art, that, based on this aristocratic principle, find in ORPHEU, their esoteric ideal, ingrained in the way we feel and know ourselves.

LUIS DE MONTALVR Lisboa, Portugal
1915

The generation of Orpheu, despite the diversity of its expressions, from the most conservative to the most radical, represents one of the most profound revolutions in the language and themes of Portuguese literature, with traces that extended into the 20th century and which remain both alive and unmatched up until this day.

Nuno Jdice

Orpheu - Revista Trimestral de Literatura was published in 1915. The project was to be a quarterly magazine, the first issue corresponding to the months of January to March and the second from April to June. A third, of which proofs remain, due to lack of money to print it, was never completed or launched. The title is the result of a commitment to the symbolist tendency of Lus de Montalvor, who signed the introduction, and from the fact that among the collaborators there was a Brazilian poet, Ronald de Carvalho, who wanted the magazine to reach the public in Brazil. The translator notes that: "My translation of Orpheu is, for me, the key to an unknown door. As a whole, they reveal a turn inwards towards a way of looking at oneself as the other, encapsulating the absent-present, feminine-masculine, nowhere-everywhere collision at the core of art and life."