Tertúlia Farense met again on October 24th, this time with a special focus on culture. The guest was the Algarve writer Fernando Cabrita, who presented his book-poem “Pamphlet”, but Luís Santos was also given the opportunity to talk about the exhibition with his works, shown in Baixa de Faro.
The informal group of Farense citizens invited, this time, a citizen from Olhao to speak about his work. Fernando Cabrita accepted the invitation to debate his book, although he stressed that “a poem cannot be explained”. But, he added, he made "an exception" in the case of Tertúlia Farense.
“The pamphlet is an outburst and not only about the country's political situation; the great sadness conveyed by the poem is mainly because there has not been a serious evolution over the years, moreover over the centuries since the change of regimes into monarchy until the republican revolution that lasted 16 years. The political classes have always shared the public purse among themselves, political life has almost always been a great shame. The objective of the political class is not to think about the public thing, but how to govern itself better.
He spoke of political careerism and the disillusionment that surfaces in the lines of the Pamphlet. The book has behind it some guardian figures, Álvaro de Campos, Cesário Verde (whom Fernando Pessoa worshiped), António Nobre. And he spoke of Manuel Moya, a poet from Cartagena, who even said with grace that “when it rains in my land, it is Portuguese rain”, illustrated Tertúlia Farense.
In another field of culture, the 67th informal meeting of citizens of Faro it also served to publicize the exhibition with 34 works and Luís Santos, displayed in the store at the intersection of Rua de Santo António and Rua da former CTT da Pontinha station.
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