Abstract

PAZ, Ana Luísa Fernandes. The writer’s self-learning process outside and against the Portuguese school: Teixeira de Pascoaes and the sublimation of genius, from the Livro de Memórias (1928) to Uma Fábula (1952). Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2022, vol.21, e072.  Epub Sep 13, 2022. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v21-2022-72.

The discussion that this article seeks to establish around the mythical figure of the poet Teixeira de Pascoaes (1877-1952) - a writer who leads the literary saudosismo movement in Portugal and who is still known today through school textbooks - is related to the cultural theses that successively permeate in his work on the artist’s self-education. Particularly in his autobiographical writings, Livro de memórias [Book of Memoirs] (1928) and Uma fábula [A fable] (1952), the latter only published in 1978, Teixeira de Pascoaes describes a schooling incapable of ensuring a teaching-learning process for literary writing, in particular the Portuguese language discipline. He describes his trajectory as a ‘school ordeal’, which he only managed to fight thanks to the literary life of his home, the Solar de Pascoaes, in a direct confrontation between family culture, school culture and a series of attributes of his artistic genius (destination, prodigious childhood, talent).

Keywords : autobiographical memories; schooling; artist education.

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