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Luís Filipe Castro Mendes

Gestos

  • 1 A Ilha Dos Mortos | Translations: frde
  • 2 Gestos | Translations: de
  • 3 Apenas Um Soneto | Translations: defr
  • 4 What Thou Lovest Well
  • 5 Natal… Na Província Neva | Translations: fr
  • 6 A Bela Adormecida | Translations: de
  • 7 Soneto da Infidelidade
  • 8 A Misericórdia dos Mercados | Translations: de
Language: portuguese
Translations: german (Gesten)
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Gestos

Gestos,
apenas gestos. A minuciosa ternura
posta nas coisas imediatas,
nas que duram contra a noite,
nas que acendem lâmpadas precárias
e contêm o silêncio, o silêncio,
como se a música fossem
e nela nos viéssemos
perder.

Gestos,
tu ouves?
Nem o teu coração pode dar guarida
a tanto silêncio da terra.

Se agora mesmo devagar nos anoitecesse
e se, mergulhados numa aguda nostalgia
ou na recordação de um rosto,
nos desencontrássemos do mundo,
só esse gesto viria resgatar-nos,
a nós, feridos de amor e de sentido.

Por isso, hoje só posso dizer
o que o teu coração abandonou.

© Luís Filipe Castro Mendes
From: A Ilha Dos Mortos
Lisboa: Quetzal Editores, 1991
Audio production: Casa Fernando Pessoa / RDP

Translations:

Language: german

Gesten

Gesten,
nur Gesten. Die minuziöse Zärtlichkeit,
in die unmittelbaren Dinge gelegt,
in jene, die der Nacht trotzen,
in jene, die spärliche Lampen anzünden
und die Stille bergen, die Stille,
als wären sie die Musik
und wir gingen darin
verloren.

Gesten,
hörst du?
Selbst dein Herz kann nicht Herberge sein
für so viel Schweigen der Welt.

Wenn es jetzt Nacht um uns würde
und wir, tief in einer heftigen Wehmut
oder dem Erinnern eines Gesichts versunken,
mit der Welt nicht zusammen kämen,
so würde allein diese Geste uns retten,
uns von Liebe und Sinn Versehrte.

Darum kann ich heute nur sagen,
was dein Herz verlassen hat.

Aus dem Portugiesischen von Katja Roloff
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Luís Filipe Castro Mendes

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* , Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal, Portugal
lives in: Strasbourg, France, France

Luís Filipe Castro Mendes was born in 1950, and while still very young, worked for the newspaper Diário de Lisboa-Juvenil. In 1974, he graduated in law from the University of Lisbon and was consul general of Portugal in Rio de Janeiro, ambassador to Hungary, India, the UNESCO, and the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Since 2016 he is the Portuguese Minister for Culture.

His work fits within the framework of a postmodernist aesthetics, and reveals an enigmatic universe, where pretense and honesty, the romantic and the classical, the rule and the game lead to the most terse and expressive achievements.

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Publications
  • Recados

    (Messages)

    Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 1983

  • Seis Elegias e Outros Poemas

    (Six Elegies and Other Poems)

    Porto: Associação dos Jornalistas e Homens de Letras do Porto, 1985

  • Ilha dos Mortos

    (The Island of the Dead)

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1991

  • Viagem de Inverno

    (Winter Journey)

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1993

  • O Jogo de Fazer Versos

    (The Game of Making Verses)

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1994

  • Modos de Música

    (Ways of Music)

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1996

  • Outras Canções

    (Other Songs)

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1998

  • Poesia Reunida (1985-1999)

    (Collected Poems, 1985-1999)

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1999

  • Os Dias Inventados

    (The Invented Days)

    Lisboa: Gótica, 2011

  • Lendas da Índia

    (Legends of India)

    Lisboa: Dom Quixote, 2011

  • A Misericórdia dos Mercados

    (The Mercy of the Markets)

    Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2014

  • Areias Escuras

    (Dark Sands), fiction

    Lisboa: ER-Heptágono, 1984

  • Correspondência Secreta

    (Secret Correspondence), fiction

    Lisboa: Quetzal, 1995

Awards
  • 1985 Prémio da Associação de Jornalistas e Homens de Letras do Porto

  • 2011 Prémio António Quadros, atribuído pela Fundação com o mesmo nome

Links
  • Luís Filipe Castro Mendes @ Instituto Camões' website

    Website
  • Luís Filipe Castro Mendes @ Antonio Miranda website

    Website

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