HETERONÍMIA E SINCERIDADE NA CRIAÇÃO DO PRIMEIRO FRADIQUE MENDES
HETERONIMY AND SINCERITY IN THE CREATION OF THE FIRST FRADIQUE MENDES.

Summary/Abstract: Heteronimy and sincerity in the creation of the first Fradique Mendes. The “tricephalic poet” Carlos Fradique Mendes, collective creation of the Generation of 1870 and synthesis of the ideals of this generation, was introduced to Portuguese literature as a unique heteronymical phenomenon. His parents, Eça de Queirós, Antero de Quental and Jaime Batalha Reis infused their literary and ideological homunculus not only with the moral and esthetical principles of the baudelairian satanism and the appetence for perfection proper to dandyism, but also with the complexity of the identity game that turned Fradique Mendes into the first actor of an endless saga of invisibility. His creators managed, in spite of this multiplicity and of the different approaches to the process of creation and depersonalization, to give a prominent outline to the first collective heteronymical project, thus designing the dialogical universes of Portuguese modernism.

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