"In 2015, a cool one hundred years
after the publication of the first issue
of Orpheu, a journal which, in its 2
issues, scandalized pretty much all
of Portugal, there are conferences
lined up in Portugal and Brazil, as
well as exhibitions mounted in the
same cities.
There is even one at
the Library of Congress in the U. S.
of A. ( though nothing is planned,
as far as I know, for London or, for
that matter, for Durban. Time has
long since confined itself to singling
out for our attention figures such as
Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Almada
Negreiros, and, of course, Pessoa.
Seldom acknowledged, though (and
then only grudgingly), is the role of
Ferro (money, yes, but no literary
contributions from this baby in the
putsch. Undoubtedly, his years
afterwards as a risk-taking news-
man (conducting sympathetic
interviews with fascist heads-of-
state) or as the eager-beaver, self-
promoting publicist of Salazar's
thumb-screws rule.
But forgot
is his unflagging loyalty to a
Modernist agenda, promoting the
literature, architecture, and lore
of his country. It's time to re-open
the cold, cold case of Antonio Ferro. "
Universidade de Brown
Mar. 8, 2015
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