Died Vitor Silva Tavares, a radical editor – publico

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
                         

Vitor Silva Tavares, founder and editor & amp; etc, died this morning in Lisbon, aged 78

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                         . Vitor Silva Tavares had been hospitalized for a week at the Santa Maria Hospital, due to a heart infection

In 1974, Vitor Silva Tavares set up a & amp; etc, a small alternative label which is distinguished by the square format his books by their authors or rare and marginal titles and to remain virtually unchanged over more than 40 years of existence, despite the changes in the publishing market. Always refused the idea to publish books to make profit

A & amp;. Etc have on your authors catalog as Alberto Pimenta, João César Monteiro, Antonin Artaud, Adília Lopes, Michaux Henri, Marquis de Sade, Robert Walser , among many others. Vitor Silva Tavares was also a writer, rarer than regular. Púsias , a book of satirical poetry was published this year in a handmade edition, by 50 kg.

Born in Lisbon in 1937, Vitor Silva Tavares was a “Lisbon Madragoa” as he made a point to remember. He continued to be:. Lived in Rua das Madres and every day was going to walk to & amp; etc, located in Amendment Street, Chiado

He started as a journalist in Angola, where he lived between 1959 and 1962 in the journal The Uncompromising. In Lisbon, he made a film critic in the Flame and Journal of Letters and directed the cultural supplement of the Diary of Lisbon .

He became editor, as he said, “by chance”. Was invited to direct the Ulisseia, where he published Earth Wretched of the , Frantz Fanon, anti-colonialist book full colonial war, the Portuguese surrealist – that no publisher published – and the first book of Luiz Pacheco, Condition Critical , which is seized by the PIDE, the Estado Novo political police. In 1974, before the April 25, founded the & amp; etc (Cultural Issues of the Underground), which began as a magazine Journal of Fundão, where José Cardoso Pires also wrote. Having started as magazine, Vitor Silva Tavares always continued to speak of publishing in the male, saying “& amp; etc”.

Only first editions

It made short runs and not reeditava depleted works, preferring to launch new titles. The only exception was The Bishop of Beja , man-Person, satirical and anticlerical poem, seized in 1980 – six years after the April 25 – on the orders of prosecutors, their burned copies in Court da Boa Hora. “A sympathetic editor has proposed me a co-edition of five thousand copies, which refused immediately (did not want to commercially exploit a scandal of these). It was a political case. The reissue is a repeat offense, a challenge to the authorities, “he said in 2007 to Brazilian newspaper K Journal of Critical .

There was no promotion of books in which printed a singular graphic care which, together with the false square format (15.5 by 17.5 cm), made them absolutely recognizable and distinct from the rest of the editorial production.

“With the death of Vitor lost the last of resistant , the father of generations of poets. There are many people that you will feel the lack. Even too much. “

Paulo Domingos da Costa, poet and editor of Frenzy, met him in the early 1970s, when Vitor Silva Tavares published it for the first time, even in the magazine. Paulo Domingos da Costa was only 20. Since then, put more than ten of his 30 titles in the hands of Silva Tavares, who recognizes an “unwavering ethics” which was reflected in every aspect of your life, especially at work.

“When you He says Vitor was a radical editor, we are not only talking about politics or ideology. Vitor was a radical in the treatment of graphic work, a publisher of books, not photocopies, as there are many out there, “the poet who worked closely with Silva Tavares, who was a friend.

says Paulo da Costa Domingos that the & amp editor; etc. all did not betray “the spirit and the word” of the authors and would never get over her head post someone’s text who did not, who did not want to have around . “A & etc is like a fingerprint, is an individual. What published in the & amp; etc was not subject to consideration of an editorial college – Vitor decided and he was determined. He liked or disliked and felt no need to explain why. “

Your way to work makes ballast ensures the poet, not just on its publisher, Frenzy. There are other projects such as the Averno, by Manuel de Freitas, the Crevasse, Vasco Santos, or the Hyena, Rui Martiniano, who were born in the light of & amp;. Etc, which perpetuated his “spirit”