In March 2010, we talked with Frederico Lourenço, university professor, translator, writer and poet, the purpose of travel with his father, M. S. Lourenço. On the day that it was announced that the award of the Prize for the Person to Frederico Lourenço, recovered those memories and we travel in Oxford, Innsbruck, Tomar and Sintra.
Were so similar that they were almost incompatible. It was like looking at someone who is the mirror of who we were; how to look for someone who is the mirror of what we can become. Frederico Lourenço, and M. S. Lourenço shared the loop branch, the face, the gestures, the voice. The profession academic (for years in the same school: only after the death of the father Frederico Lourenço "transferred" to Coimbra, where he teaches in the Centre for Classical Studies) and "temptation" literary. They did not share a lot of travel. "I think that has to do with the very nature of our relationship. It was a relationship at the same time proximity and distance. Of two people at the same time are similar enough that they need distance to coexist. And the problem of travel is that you can’t get away from the person with whom you are. And this can be problematic.”
it Was relatively problematic, for example, on the trip to Oxford, in 1997. The only trip that father and son shared alone. Had lived in Oxford when Frederick was a child. "My father had a scholarship in 1965 to go to Oxford to study, after you have done here the course of philosophy. Could not get employment in Portugal, for political reasons.” Were eight years in England, and in the Summer of 1997, were "revisit" to the past life. A week in which they partook of breakfast together, almoçavam and jantavam. "My parents separated soon after the 25th of April and I was not so much time with my father, was not much accustomed to have that relationship everyday. Normally we would meet from 15 to 15 days, night or almoçávamos. But as soon as, every day, it was a bit exhausting.”
toured the city, visited the monuments, the parks, the various houses where they had lived. "Mostly we did many walks on foot, was much the gender of my father," recalls Frederick Lawrence. "At the time, I was still doing the phd, and my father was asking too many questions about what it was he was doing. There were going to respond, but I felt like very elaborate… Because also I did not know very well what I was doing and did not want to give up a part of the weak", jokes. From your point of view, she confesses, the trip went very well. The relationship with the father, "it was a little bit tense," and this trip abroad is the proximity was excessive.
Four years later, in 2001, a new journey together, Innsbruck. But, this done, the imperative was not to travel the two. "It was a trip of a traumatic event". The father, who had returned to marry an austrian, had another daughter, who died of leukemia in 2001. I was 20 years old. "Our trip was the same at the end of the illness of her… Then there was the funeral…". Interestingly, note Frederico Lourenço, the circumstances helped that the relation of both on this trip were much better than in the previous. "We finally commiserate more. Despite everything, I cherish the memories better, even contact with my father, this trip to Austria". Had that experience the "rare" living under the same roof of the father and, once more, many tours. "It was very much the layout of it, give tours. In the background, dealing with life and with the relationship with people in this way peripatetic. Always be on the floor.”
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