Literature on the 1st republic

Abstract

The essay addresses three literary preferences that intersect at the beginning of the 20th century in Portugal. The first group is a heterodox compilation of authors and works marked by a characteristic of being eminently from the past. The second group is formed by literary a wide range of literary manifestations which are especially in the light of the phenomenon of explosion; as Iuri Lotman described: the metaphor that explains how a system may combine gradual forms of change with other radical forms of change, and in which the radicalness is a form of evolution whose primordial value is discontinuity. Finally, the third group includes works that manifest their potential of insemination of the future only in less immediate durations.