The poet Herbert Helder, 84, died on Monday at his home in Cascais, said today Lusa source familiar.
The same source said that on Wednesday there will be a private ceremony for family only and will not be given more information about the poet’s funeral.
Speaking to Lusa, Nuno Judice recalled that for his generation, who began writing and published in the late 1960s, Herbert Helder “was a master.”
“` Steps in Volta`, the first book of short stories, was a discovery, was a kind of writing that was not known in Portuguese literature, talking about things like Europe, marginality, in contact with a literature that would be entirely based the specialist literature, “he said.
To Nuno Judice, this book “was a release of many models that were dominant at that time.”
In the following years was watching the poetry of Herbert Helder and always keeping the same interest in what was going publishing:. “It was a language that has no parallel A journey to the inner world, the spaces of the depth of being, he achieved describe a only way, “he said.
Nuno Judice lived with Herbert Helder for a few years before and immediately after the Revolution of April 25, a period of great literary and political enthusiasms.
“It was always very passionate living. He was a very controversial and front person. He had ideas that defended with very different writers such as Carlos de Oliveira, Augusto Abelaira, José Gomes Ferreira. I heard it was always fascinating,” he recalled.
The poet Nuno Judice also said that the last books of Herbert Helder “are also very brave, because it is the confrontation with death, with the physical decline, with the disease but at the same time, with an amazing vitality.”
Herbert Helder Luis Oliveira Bernardes was born on November 23, 1930 in Funchal. “Death without Master” was the last book of the poet, published by Porto Editora, in June 2014.
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